Development of a 5-item parent questionnaire to screen preschool children for reading problems
| Autor: | Robert Needlman, Sai Nandini Iyer, Mark Ian Sawyer, Dennis M. Super |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Parents medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Reading disability business.industry Developmental Disabilities education Gold standard Early reading Emergent literacy Sensitivity and Specificity Dyslexia Reading Problems Family medicine Child Preschool Surveys and Questionnaires Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Medicine Humans Mass Screening Female business Cutoff score |
| Zdroj: | Clinical pediatrics. 53(6) |
| ISSN: | 1938-2707 |
| Popis: | Objective. To develop a brief tool for screening of emergent literacy skills in preschool children (3-5 years old) in pediatric clinics. Methods. Parents were given an 8-item questionnaire, and the children were tested with the Get Ready to Read–Revised (GRTR-R) screener. With the GRTR-R score as gold standard, the parent questionnaire was optimized using various combinations of questions and response weights in one half of the sample. The resulting 5-item questionnaire was then validated using the other half of the sample. Results. A total of 203 patients were enrolled. In the validation sample, the 5-item questionnaire had sensitivity and specificity vis-à-vis the GRTR-R of 100% and 78.6% in 5-year-olds (cutoff score of 8) and 78.6% and 68.2% in 4-year-olds (cutoff of 6). The questionnaire did not perform well in 3-year-olds. Conclusion. A very brief parent questionnaire may be useful as a first-line screener for early reading problems. |
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