The Prevalence of Dyslexia: A New Approach to Its Estimation

• Published in: Journal of learning disabilities Vol. 53; no. 5; pp. 354 - 365
• Main Authors: Wagner, Richard K., Zirps, Fotena A., Edwards, Ashley A., Wood, Sarah G., Joyner, Rachel E., Becker, Betsy J., Liu, Guangyun, Beal, Bethany
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2020; SAGE Publications and Hammill Institute on Disabilities; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Clinical Diagnosis; Decoding (Reading); Disability Identification; Dyslexia; Incidence; Learning disabilities; Listening Comprehension; Medical diagnosis; Meta Analysis; Phonological Awareness; Reading; Reading Comprehension; Reading Difficulties; Reading Skills; Recruitment; Screening Tests; Severity (of Disability); Simulation; Special education; Systematic review; Vocabulary; Bayesian models; prevalence; diagnosis; reading disability; dyslexia

How prevalent is dyslexia? A definitive answer to this question has been elusive because of the continuous distribution of reading performance and predictors of dyslexia and because of the heterogeneous nature of samples of poor readers. Samples of poor readers are a mixture of individuals whose rea...