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- Title
Development of a 5-Item Parent Questionnaire to Screen Preschool Children for Reading Problems.
- Authors
Iyer, Sai Nandini; Sawyer, Mark I.; Germany, Marcus; Super, Dennis M.; Needlman, Robert D.
- Abstract
Objective. To develop a brief tool for screening of emergent literacy skills in preschool children (3-5 years old) in pediatric clinics. Methods. Parents were given an 8-item questionnaire, and the children were tested with the Get Ready to Read–Revised (GRTR-R) screener. With the GRTR-R score as gold standard, the parent questionnaire was optimized using various combinations of questions and response weights in one half of the sample. The resulting 5-item questionnaire was then validated using the other half of the sample. Results. A total of 203 patients were enrolled. In the validation sample, the 5-item questionnaire had sensitivity and specificity vis-à-vis the GRTR-R of 100% and 78.6% in 5-year-olds (cutoff score of 8) and 78.6% and 68.2% in 4-year-olds (cutoff of 6). The questionnaire did not perform well in 3-year-olds. Conclusion. A very brief parent questionnaire may be useful as a first-line screener for early reading problems.
- Subjects
OHIO; READING disability diagnosis; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; EXPERIMENTAL design; LITERACY; RESEARCH methodology; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; CHILDREN
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 6, p571
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0009922814521285