Development of Screening Tests of Dyslexia and Intervention Program for Elementary School Students in Normal Settings

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Screening tests to detect students with dyslexia in normal settings were developed. They consist of three tasks : syllable manipulation, word reading, and sentence reading. They were conducted for 178 elementary school students of grades 2 and 3. Out of 178, 41 students were considered to be deviant on at least one task. They were then evaluated by classroom teachers with LDI-R. Finally 25 students(14%) were judged to be at risk for dyslexia. An intervention program for dyslexia was performed for 4 students diagnosed as dyslexia. The program specifically focused on enhancing decoding abilities and vocabulary. After 15 months of intervention, all of them were found to have improved in their decoding abilities.