Table 1. Characteristics of the participants, with standard deviation in parenthesis.

	Group with dyslexia	Control group	t	P
N	18	18
Gender/Boys	15	11
Age (years)	10.34 (0.78)	10.41 (0.74)	0.294	NS
Raven (Percentile)	69 (17.17)	75 (18.11)	1.039	NS
Reading fluency (Mean)	28.06 (5.87)	49.56 (9.01)	8.479	<.001
Vocabulary (Mean)	2446.8 (254.57)	3054.1 (182.61)	8.224	<.001

For age, the numbers are mean years for the dyslexia and control groups. For the Raven, the numbers are mean percentiles for the dyslexia and control groups. For reading fluency, the numbers represent means of items that the dyslexia and control groups answered correctly. For Chinese character recognition, the numbers are the numbers of characters children could use correctly in word composition.