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The Flamingo Test: A New Diagnostic Instrument for Dyslexia in Dutch Higher Education Students
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Rouweler, Liset; Varkevisser, Nelleke; Brysbaert, Marc; Maassen, Ben; Tops, Wim – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dyslexia, Decoding (Reading)
Child and Parental Literacy Levels within Families with a History of Dyslexia
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van Bergen, Elsje; de Jong, Peter F.; Plakas, Anna; Maassen, Ben; van der Leij, Aryan – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: The present study concerns literacy and its underlying cognitive skills in Dutch children who differ in familial risk (FR) for dyslexia. Previous studies with FR-children were inconclusive regarding the performance of FR-children without dyslexia as compared to the controls. Moreover, van Bergen et al. (2011) recently showed that…
Descriptors: Phonology, Dyslexia, Grade 2, Reading Skills