Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/2445/121145
Title: | Neuropsychological differences between samples of dyslexic and reader children by means of NEPSY |
Author: | Aguilar Alonso, Ángel Moreno González, Verónica |
Keywords: | Neuropsicologia Dislèxia Trastorns psicomotors infantils Neuropsychology Dyslexia Psychomotor disorders in children |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract: | Dyslexia and other reading disorder concepts are used to describe the difficulties of children who cannot read, despite their cognitive capacity and after having spent a long period of learning and practicing. This paper evaluates the neuropsychological performance in Nepsy subtests and the differences between dyslexic and reader children. The evaluation involved a sample of 30 children: 1, control group of 10 reader children; 2, group of 10 children with low probability of being diagnosed as dyslexic; and 3, group of 10 children with probable and very probable dyslexia, according to the criteria of Bongo Test. Comparing group 1 to 3, the 20 subjects are correctly classified in the expected group by discriminant analysis, but the Stepwise Wilks' lambda method only selects 6 of the NEPSY subtests: Oromotor Sequences (better performance of the of readers children) and Fingertip Tapping, Visuomotor Precision, Finger Discrimination (non preferred hand) Arrows, and Route Finding (better performance of dyslexic children). Despite all, the Mann-Whitney rank-sum U tests point significant differences between groups in Tower, Knok and Tap, and Manual Motor Sequences (better performance of reader children), and Finger Discrimination-non preferred hand (better performance of dyslexic children). Finally, multiple regression analysis carried out with the NEPSY subtests as predictor variables and each one of the reading Bongo test as dependent variables, with the sample of two groups of dyslexic children (n =20), select different NEPSY variables for each dependent Bongo Literacy Test: Spelling mistakes, writing errors, reading time, reading errors, and reading comprehension. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Anuario-psicologia/article/view/8224 |
It is part of: | Anuario de Psicología, 2012, vol. 42, num. 1, p. 35-50 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/121145 |
ISSN: | 0066-5126 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa) |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
614326.pdf | 219.16 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.