Urmatoarele au fost extrase din lista de verificare Vinegrad in scopul de a avea o idee asupra populatiei adulte, spre exemplu fara a face parte din primul an de studenti. Mai mutle detalii sunt date in referintele de mai jos.

Informatia este obtinuta direct dela indivizii cu dislexie din Lista de verificare a adultilor cu dislexie. A fost realizata de Institutul de Dislexie care acuma are numele de onoare al fondatorului sau , Dr Michael Vinegrad, de la Goldsmiths College.

Acesta consta in 20 de intrebari (ex. pronunita e slaba? Faceti confuzie intre numerele de autobuz 95 si 59?) unde se poate raspunde cu Da si Nu. Acest chestionar simplu a fost aplicat la 679 de adulti cu vasta de 18, peste 68,79% fiind studenti. 32 de studenti din grup au fost dislexici students in the group had also been assessed as dyslexic and therefore a comparison was enabled between dyslexic (12.7 ‘Yes’ responses on average) and non-dyslexic (mean ‘Yes’ responses 4.4%).  90% of the total sample gave 8 or fewer ‘Yes’ responses.  Twelve questions were especially good indicators of dyslexia, discriminant function analysis revealed, including ‘Do you find difficulty in telling left from right?’

It is hard to see how the screening needs of further and higher Education institutions could be met more cheaply and effectively than by means of this “Vinegrad Checklist”.  The actual checklist is appended.

Metoda de administrare este urmatoarea:

1. Ask the students to fill out the questionnaire as honestly as possible, without any limit of time, but preferably while gathered together in a single session. Ten minutes ought to suffice.
2. Collect the questionnaires, checking that names (and any other information requested, such as year or residence) are given.
3. In the last column, record in the unshaded boxes a tick if the respondent has answered that question with ‘Yes’.
4. Record the total number of ‘Yes’ answers in the box provided at the foot of the page.
5. In the second line of the box, record the total number of ticks in the last column.
6. Select all questionnaires with eight or more ‘Yes’ responses.  This is likely to identify 11% of the student population.  Though this will include all the more dyslexic students, this is still too large a fraction to allow a reasonable chance of intervention.
7. From those identified further select respondents with the most Yes answers in the last column. Positive responses to six or more of these most dyslexia-sensitive questions “may be of greater significance than a high score on the questionnaire as a whole.” (Vinegrad, 1994, p. 22)

Martin Turner, Head of Psychology, The Dyslexia Institute, 6th May 1999

Referinte

1. Vinegrad, M. A Revised Adult Dyslexia Checklist. Educare no. 48, pp. 21-23, March 1994.
2. From: Turner, M. Psychological Assessment of Dyslexia. London: Whurr, 1997, chapter 11.

Revised Adult Dyslexia Checklist

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