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Dyslexia Assessment in Amharic
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Mekonnen, Abebayehu Messele – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
This exploratory study aimed at developing a dyslexia assessment tool in the Amharic language and to collect initial reliability and validity data on the tool designed to identify dyslexia in Grade 3. The developed battery consists of 10 tests. Data were collected from 121 Amharic-speaking children, aged 9-12 years. Evidence of construct validity…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Screening Tests, Identification, Grade 3
The Role of Phonological Processing in Children from a National-Type Chinese Primary School in Malaysia: Implications for Dyslexia Assessment
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Lee, Lay Wah – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2021
The Malay language writing system is alphabetic and orthographically transparent. This study aimed to determine whether phonological processing skills predict Malay word-level literacy acquisition in Chinese children from a national-type Chinese primary school in Malaysia. A correlational study among 113 Year 1 Chinese children who are non-native…
Descriptors: Phonology, Screening Tests, At Risk Persons, Dyslexia
Tests Screening Writing Difficulty in Malayalam among Upper Primary Students
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Gafoor, K. Abdul – Online Submission, 2014
Design of a screening test for identifying students with writing difficulty in Malayalam and validation thereof among upper primary students of Kerala is made to help schools to understand factors leading to such difficulty and to intervene with such students. A battery of tests was developed based on extant literature on screening tests, reviewed…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Writing Difficulties, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
The Influence of Three Emergent Literacy Skills on the Invented Spellings of 4-Year-Olds
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Niessen, Nicole L.; Strattman, Kathy; Scudder, Rosalind – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2011
This study of 40 4-year-olds investigated whether tests of phonological sensitivity, print awareness, or word awareness accounted for a significant amount of variability in preschool children's invented spellings. Subtest results from the "Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening-PreKindergarten" and two measures of individual word…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonological Awareness, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
Preschool Prediction: Orthographic and Phonological Skills, and Reading.
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Badian, Nathlie A. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1994
Children (n=118) were administered a preschool screening battery 6 months before kindergarten entry and then 19 and 24 months later. Measures of phonological awareness, serial naming speed, and orthographic processing were found to make a strong contribution to prediction of first-grade reading. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Identifying a Multivariate Screening Model to Predict Reading Difficulties at the Onset of Kindergarten: A Longitudinal Analysis
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Bishop, Anne G.; League, Martha B. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2006
The purpose of this followup study was to determine the long-term predictive validity of theoretically coherent reading measures administered during fall and winter of kindergarten. Seventy-nine children were screened using measures representing letter identification, phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid automatized naming.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Recognition (Achievement), Reading Achievement