The Flamingo Test : a new diagnostic instrument for dyslexia in Dutch higher education students

In this study, we present a new diagnostic test for dyslexia, called the Flamingo Test, inspired by the French Alouette Test. The purpose of the test is to measure students' word decoding skills and reading fluency by means of a grammatically correct but meaningless text. Two experiments were run to test the predictive validity of the Flamingo Test. In the first experiment, we compared reading times, error rates and, sensitivity and specificity of the Flamingo Test for samples of students with and without dyslexia. In the second experiment, we compared performance on the Flamingo Test with rea... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Rouweler, Liset
Varkevisser, Nelleke
Brysbaert, Marc
Maassen, Ben
Tops, Wim
Dokumenttyp: journalarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Schlagwörter: Social Sciences / Medicine and Health Sciences / Dyslexia / Higher Education / Text Reading / The Flamingo Test / LEMs / Klepel
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8676499