Abstract
Developmental dyslexia is defined as an unexpected specific and persistent failure to acquire efficient reading skills despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence and sociocultural opportunity. The main aim of the present research protocol was to construct a web screening battery of tests in order to screen children’s reading, orthographic and cognitive skills. The main hypothesis of the present study was that Greek students that were already diagnosed as dyslexic, shall present significantly lower scores. A total of sixty, right handed children (30 male and 30 female, age range 8–11 years old M = 8.93, SD = 0.83) participated in this study. Reading, cognitive and orthographic skills of children with dyslexia and typically achieving children were examined, using a battery that consisted of seven tasks. Subsequent analysis of variance revealed that the children with dyslexia had statistically significant (p < 0.01) lower mean scores of correct answers and larger latencies in all tasks compared to their average peers that participated at the control group.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Sofie, C.A., Riccio, C.A.: A comparison of multiple methods for the identification of children with reading disabilities. J. Learn. Disabil. 35(3), 234–244 (2002)
Vlachos, F., Avramidis, E., Dedousis, G., Chalmpe, M., Ntalla, I., Giannakopoulou, M.: Prevalence and gender ratio of dyslexia in Greek adolescents and its association with parental history and brain injury. Am. J. Educ. Res. 1(1), 22–25 (2013)
Tallal, P., Miller, S., Fitch, R.H.: Neurobiological basis of speech: a case for the preeminence of temporal processing. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 682(1), 27–47 (1993)
Bonte, M.L., Poelmans, H., Blomert, L.: Deviant neurophysiological responses to phonological regularities in speech in dyslexic children. Neuropsychologia 45(7), 1427–1437 (2007)
Swanson, H.L.: Working memory in learning disability subgroups. J. Exp. Child Psychol. 56(1), 87–114 (1993)
Stein, J., Walsh, V.: To see but not to read; the magnocellular theory of dyslexia. Trends Neurosci. 20(4), 147–152 (1997)
Nicolson, R.I., Fawcett, A.J.: Developmental dyslexia: into the future. In: Dyslexia: Theory and Good Practice. Whurr, London (2001)
Galaburda, A.M., Sherman, G.F., Rosen, G.D., Aboitiz, F., Geschwind, N.: Developmental dyslexia: four consecutive patients with cortical anomalies. Ann. Neurol. 18(2), 222–233 (1985)
Galaburda, A.M.: Developmental dyslexia: a multilevel syndrome. Dyslexia 5(4), 183 (1999)
Karapetsas, A., Zygouris, N.: Event Related Potentials (ERPs) in prognosis, diagnosis and rehabilitation of children with dyslexia. Encephalos 48(3), 118–127 (2011)
Shaywitz, S.E., Shaywitz, B.A.: Dyslexia (specific reading disability). Biol. Psychiatry 57(11), 1301–1309 (2005)
Caravolas, M., Lervåg, A., Mousikou, P., Efrim, C., Litavský, M., Onochie-Quintanilla, E., Salas, N., Schöffelová, M., Defior, S., Mikulajová, M., Seidlová-Málková, G., Hulme, C.: Common patterns of prediction of literacy development in different alphabetic orthographies. Psychol. Sci. 23(6), 678–686 (2012)
Papadimitriou, A.M., Vlachos, F.M.: Which specific skills developing during preschool years predict the reading performance in the first and second grade of primary school? Early Child Dev. Care 184(11), 1706–1722 (2014)
Turner, M., Smith, P.: Dyslexia Screener. GL Assessment, London (2003)
Singleton, C., Horne, J., Leedale, R., Thomas, K.: Lucid Rapid Dyslexia Screening: Administration Manual. Lucid Research Creative Ltd, Beverly (2003)
Protopapas, A., Skaloumbakas, C.: Traditional and computer-based screening and diagnosis of reading disabilities in Greek. J. Learn. Disabil. 40(1), 15–36 (2007)
Korat, O.: Reading electronic books as a support for vocabulary, story comprehension and word reading in kindergarten and first grade. Comput. Educ. 55(1), 24–31 (2010)
Brookes, G., Ng, V., Lim, B.H., Tan, W.P., Lukito, N.: The computerized-based Lucid Rapid Dyslexia Screening for the identification of children at risk of dyslexia: a Singapore study. Educ. Child Psychol. 28(2), 33 (2011)
Singleton, C., Thomas, K., Horne, J.: Computer-based cognitive assessment and the development of reading. J. Res. Reading 23(2), 158–180 (2000)
Horne, J.K.: Development and evaluation of computer-based techniques for assessing children in educational settings. Doctoral dissertation, University of Hull (2001)
American Psychiatric Association (APA): Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM, 3rd edn. (1987) (rev. text)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Zygouris, N.C. et al. (2017). The Implementation of a Web Application for Screening Children with Dyslexia. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Interactive Collaborative Learning. ICL 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 545. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50340-0_36
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50340-0_36
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-50339-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-50340-0
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)