Presencia de riesgo de dislexia en niños de tercero de básica de una unidad educativa

Abstract

The aimed of this research was to describe the presence of risk of dyslexia in third-grade students of Educación General Básica (EGB) of the Unidad Educativa del Milenio (UEM) “Manuela Garaicoa de Calderón”, from the city of Cuenca. The participants were 34 students, 22 boys and 12 girls, and students with special educational needs were excluded. The study was conducted with a quantitative approach, a non-experimental design and a descriptive scope. The study was execute using the Dyslexia in Children Test (DST-J) created in the United Kingdom, which has Spanish and Mexican scales, each adapted to different realities. There are also English and Spanish versions. This instrument has been created with the aim of detecting those children who are at risk of failure in reading. Their authors are: Angela J. Fawcett and Rod I. Nicolson. The results show that 50% of the students are at risk for dyslexia, all of them at different levels: mild, moderate and high being classified as some kind of risk, also provides a profile of strengths and weaknesses that can be used for planning curricular adaptations. It was observed that the participants present greater difficulties in the sub-test of semantic fluency, inverse digits and phonetic segmentation. The sample was disproportionate so it was not possible to make a significant difference between the level of risk of dyslexia and sex.