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    Area of Science:

    • Educational Psychology
    • Developmental Psychology
    • Linguistics

    Background:

    • Reading difficulties impact academic success.
    • Accurate reading assessment is crucial for early intervention.
    • Decoding skills are foundational to reading proficiency.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To compare reading decoding performance between students with and without reading difficulties.
    • To identify specific parameters that can aid in reading assessment.
    • To investigate how item presentation (whole vs. segmented) affects decoding accuracy.

    Main Methods:

    • Studied 48 school children (7-10 years old) divided into groups with (RDG) and without (WRDG) reading difficulties.
    • Assessed reading of 36 linguistic items (words, pseudowords) presented whole or segmented (letters, syllables).
    • Employed Mann-Whitney and Friedman tests for statistical analysis; calculated sensitivity and specificity.

    Main Results:

    • WRDG students showed better performance than RDG students across most tasks.
    • RDG students struggled significantly with segmented pseudowords (syllable-by-syllable, letter-by-letter).
    • A threshold of decoding at least 32 items differentiated adequate readers from those with academic difficulties.

    Conclusions:

    • Reading decoding performance is generally homogeneous in students without reading difficulties.
    • Students with reading difficulties exhibit specific challenges, particularly with segmented pseudowords.
    • The number of correctly decoded items serves as a sensitive indicator for identifying reading difficulties.