Journal
MULTIMODAL TECHNOLOGIES AND INTERACTION
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mti6010007
Keywords
bilingualism; developmental dyslexia; child reading acquisition; computerized screening; usability; web application; remote testing
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 program for research and innovation under the Marie Sklodowska Curie Grant [765556]
- Italian Ministry of Health [RC2021]
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This study presents a novel web-based screening platform for language and reading assessment, which has been preliminarily validated with primary school children. The platform shows potential in accurately identifying the risk of reading disorders and has received positive feedback from both administrators and participants in usability studies.
Ideally, language and reading skills in bilingual children are assessed in both languages spoken in order to avoid misdiagnoses of communication or learning disorders. Due to limited capacity of clinical and educational staff, computerized screenings that allow for automatic evaluation of the children's performance on reading tasks (accuracy and speed) might pose a useful alternative in clinical and school settings. In this study, a novel web-based screening platform for language and reading assessment is presented. This tool has been preliminarily validated with monolingual Italian, Mandarin-Italian and English-Italian speaking primary school children living and schooled in Italy. Their performances in the screening tasks in Italian and-if bilingual-in their native language were compared to the results of standardized/conventional reading assessment tests as well as parental and teacher questionnaires. Correlations revealed the tasks that best contributed to the identification of risk for the presence of reading disorders and showed the general feasibility and usefulness of the computerized screening. In a further step, both screening administrators (Examiners) and child participants (Examinees) were invited to participate in usability studies, which revealed general satisfaction and provided suggestions for further improvement of the screening platform. Based on these findings, the potential of the novel web-based screening platform is discussed.
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