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- Title
Impact of the Time of Diagnosis on the Perceived Competence of Adolescents With Dyslexia.
- Authors
Battistutta, Layla; Commissaire, Eva; Steffgen, Georges
- Abstract
Intergroup comparison studies have shown that children with specific learning disorders hold lower self-perceptions regarding their abilities than their typically developing peers, especially in an academic setting. This small-scale study investigated the potential effect of diagnostic timing on competency perceptions within a sample of adolescents with dyslexia, either diagnosed in primary or secondary school, but paired on duration of intervention and academic impairment. Perceived competence was assessed via self-report on an academic, social, and more general level. These measures were complemented by open-ended questions investigating pupils' understanding and tolerance of their dyslexia. Early-diagnosed adolescents were found to hold higher academic and general competency perceptions. Moreover, pupils' personal statements to the open-ended questions revealed a statistically significant association between time of diagnosis and understanding as well as tolerance of dyslexia, indicating that early-diagnosed adolescents, compared with their late-diagnosed peers, have more adequate representations of their reading disorder as specific and non-stigmatizing and are more open to announcing their dyslexia to others. These preliminary findings suggest that diagnostic timing might lead early-diagnosed adolescents to a more adequate understanding of their dyslexia, which might also be related to higher competency perceptions.
- Subjects
DYSLEXIA; ACADEMIC achievement; ELEMENTARY schools; STUDENTS with disabilities; HIGH schools; SENSORY perception; READING disability; SELF-evaluation; SOCIAL stigma; TIME; JOB performance; EARLY diagnosis; ADOLESCENCE; DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 3, p170
- ISSN
0731-9487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0731948718762124