The developmental dyslexia scale for standard mandarin: A study among early primary students
The DDSAM is reliable and valid for assessing and diagnosing DD in Standard Mandarin-speaking primary school children from grades 1-2. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS?: Although a number of scales and tools have been proposed for assessing developmental dyslexia (DD) in Chinese, there is still a lack of diagnostic tools for Mandarin Chinese in Mainland China. In this study, we developed one of the most comprehensive diagnostic tools for DD in Mandarin Chinese for lower graders. We included visual-spatial attention (VA) and compounding awareness (CA), two tests that have been recently suggested as reliable measures for identifying DD in the Chinese language. This assessment tool has been verified for robust reliability and validity. This study also provided confirmation of the core deficits of DD in Chinese, which were orthographic awareness (OA). In addition, VA, rapid automatized naming (RAN) and morphological awareness (MA) were found to be the most important cognitive abilities for word reading in Chinese lower graders in this study.
Authors
- Zhongling Liu
- Shiyu Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1558-2835)
- Yuanyuan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0557-9296)
- Duo Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-2616)
- Lei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7024-3823)
- Jinjin Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0647-9687)
- Lingyan Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3750-6761)
- Dan Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3809-1740)
- Ling Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1827-6366)
- Yanyan Huo
- Chuanfei Dong
- Tingting Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3824-6183)
Institutions
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- Education University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Shanghai Children's Hospital (CN)
- The University of Osaka (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Research in Developmental Disabilities
- Published
- 2024-09-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104841
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.58
Funders
- Shanghai Municipal Health Commission
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Hong Kong Institute of Education
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai Hospital Development Center
- Education University of Hong Kong
- National Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Key Technologies Research and Development Program
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Scientific and Innovative Action Plan of Shanghai