Reading is an important aspect of everyday life, but is at the same time a complex skill to master. There is a high variability in reading skills among normal developing children and one of the phonological processing skills that has a significant influence on reading will be investigated in the current study. Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is next to phonological awareness and phonological short term memory an ability that acts on the word identification skills that are necessary for learning to read. The relationship between RAN and reading is well documented in the literature in both typical and disabled readers and across different languages. However there is still a debate concerning the components driving this relationship...