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Test Selection Efficacy in the Diagnostic Confirmation and Subtyping of Children with Dyslexia.

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Ackerman, Peggy T.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992

Forty children (ages 9-12) identified as having dyslexia on the basis of intelligence and achievement tests were evaluated. Results imply that a test of phonological sensitivity and another of nonsense word decoding identified children who were dysphonetic. Nondysphonetic disabled readers were older and had higher verbal intelligence quotients…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Classification, Decoding (Reading)

Alternative Diagnostic Approaches for Specific Developmental Reading Disabilities.

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Torgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998

Summarizes recent studies identifying specific linguistic-cognitive markers for reading disabilities and describes efforts to develop measures of these markers in the areas of phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, and verbal short-term memory. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Dyslexia