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Mobile Dyslexia Screening Test: A New Approach through Multiple Deficit Model Mobile Game to Screen Developmental Dyslexia Children
Saifuddin Mohtaram, Naim Che Pee, Abdul Samad Sibgatullah

Last modified: 2014-11-04

Abstract


Dyslexia is a global phenomenon, it is reported that around 70% of children with learning disability is dyslexic. It is estimated around 314,000 Malaysian school going children are dyslexic and few of them received proper and suitable teaching method. With this huge number of school population percentage are at risk of dyslexia an intervention program are in serious needs.  Presently there is no Malaysian standardized instrument to screen children with developmental dyslexia in the school environment especially for the preschool children. Teachers experience is the sole attribute that initiate the process of screening dyslexic in the school environment.  It is understandable that early detection would lead to a proper treatment and remedial program. It is a great necessity to develop a simple screening test that could help teachers and parents to diagnose dyslexia symptom in a child based on multiple deficit theories.  We propose the idea of a single series of game that would be able to screen dyslexia through mobile approach to cope with the problem of non-standardized screening method, untrained teacher to recognize the symptom of dyslexia, and ill awareness of the dyslexia problem which incorporate Multiple-deficit theories of dyslexia and mobile game.


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