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Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age
Published on: May 1, 2020
Reflections on research on reading disability with special attention to gender issues
1Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. linda.siegel@ubc.ca
Abstract:
This commentary reviews some of the issues involved in the definition of reading disability and demonstrates how definitions can influence the conclusions reached by a review. In particular, the discrepancy definition of reading disability is shown to be logically flawed. Data from a large unbiased sample show that there are no significant differences between boys and girls in the incidence of reading difficulties.
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