Résumé
Objective: detecting a potential oral language disorder within a population of secondary school students having dyslexia and showing no background of oral language difficulties in order to systematise oral language assessment for these patients and improve their therapy.Method: we assessed the oral language of twenty-six secondary school students – thirteen with dyslexia and thirteen without dyslexia – using different tasks of a standardised battery.Results: we have discovered that certain tasks seem more discernible in order to diagnose an oral language disorder and we have noticed indicative signs of this type of disorder for eight secondary school students with dyslexia as well as one secondary school student without dyslexia.Conclusion: it seems that a primary or secondary oral language disorder may exist among secondary school students with dyslexia and that it was never diagnosed before because of compensatory mechanisms.