Table 1.
Clinical Scores of Dyslexic and Control children at the Alouette, Nepsy2, and Timé3 tests (see Methods).
| Test items | Dyslexics N = 17 |
Controls N = 17 |
T-test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | t (32); p; cohen’s d | |
| Reading Time (s)—Alouette-R | 178.65 ± 2.67 | 140.71 ± 26.09 | t = 5.96; 1.2e−7; 2.05 |
| Number of words read—Alouette-R | 181.47 ± 63.29 | 258.71 ± 12.89 | t = − 4.93; 2.4e−5; 1.69 |
| Number of errors—Alouette-R | 16.82 ± 10.13 | 8.12 ± 5.01 | t = 3.18; 3.3e−3; 1.09 |
| Accuracy—Alouette-R | 165.23 ± 65.66 | 250.41 ± 13.15 | t = − 5.24; 2.8e−7; 1.80 |
| Efficiency Index—Alouette-R | 167.12 ± 68.06 | 332.80 ± 72.64 | t = − 6.86; 9.1e−9; 2.35 |
| Accuracy Index—Alouette-R | 89.78 ± 7.50 | 96.82 ± 2.92 | t = − 3.61; 1e−3; 1.30 |
| Phonological Process—NEPSY2 | 27.42 ± 12.76 | 36.23 ± 2.41 | t = − 2.79; 8.7e−3; 0.96 |
| Words identification (months)—Timé3 | 29.06 ± 12.90 | − 11.59 ± 21.88 | t = 6.45; 2.9e−7; 2.26 |
As expected, controls outperformed dyslexics on all measures. Efficiency Index = (A × 180)/RT, where A stands for Accuracy and is the number of words correctly read (including self-corrections), 180 is the maximum time (in seconds) allowed for the test, and RT is the reading time. Accuracy Index: (A/NWR) × 100, where A stands for Accuracy, and NWR is the number of words read.