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Towards identifying dyslexia in Standard Indonesian: the development of a reading assessment battery
Abstract With its transparent orthography, Standard Indonesian is spoken by over 160 million inhabitants and is the primary language of instruction in education and the government in Indonesia. An assessment battery of reading and reading-related skills was developed as a starting point for the diagnosis of dyslexia in beginner learners. Founded on the International Dyslexia Association ’s definition of dyslexia, the test battery comprises nine empirically motivated reading and reading-related tasks assessing word reading, pseudoword reading, arithmetic, rapid automatized naming, phoneme deletion, forward and backward ...
Source: Reading and Writing - July 11, 2017 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

An exploration of teachers ’ agency and social relationships within dyslexia‐support provision in an English secondary school
This article explores teachers’ experiences of dyslexia and classroom interventions via lesson observations and semi‐structured interviews. These experiences were analysed through a Bourdieusien lens, based on Jenkins's ‘levels of interaction’, to delineate power relationships inherent in classroom interactions, teachers’ interactions with professionals and institutions, and mechanisms present in teachers’ conceptualisation of ‘self’. Through their conceptualisation of ‘self’ as ‘teachers of dyslexic young people’, it was found that teachers’ classroom interactions acted to reduce social distance ...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - June 29, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Helen Ross Tags: Dyslexia ‐Support Provision Source Type: research