Giménez, A. 1 , Luque, J. L. 1 , Bordoy, S. 1 & Sánchez, A. 2
1 Universidad de Málaga
2 Junta de Andalucía
Reading disabilities are more frequent among children with a first line relative with dyslexia (family risk, FR). FR has proven to be a reliable predictor of reading achievement. Nevertheless, parents are not always in conditions to inform if there is any a confirmed diagnosis dyslexia in the family. A plausible alternative could be parents? self-reported reading status. To test the predictive value of an index derived from their parents self-reported reading abilities (IPRA), 52 6-year-old children were assessed in a variety of linguistic, literacy, and phonological processing tasks at the beginning and at the end of the school year. The sample was divided into two groups: Poor Reader Parents (PRP) and Good Reader Parents (GPR). Children Results showed that PRP children obtained lower scores in most of the tasks at the two time points. To examine if IPRA could predict reading achievement in June, logistic regression analyses were carried out. IPRA alone yielded 38.1% sensitivity and 90.6% specificity. The best fitting-model containing IPRA and RAN objects yielded 82.4% sensitivity and 84% specificity. These results suggest that self-reported parents? reading abilities could allow detecting children who could benefit from additional support before they began to fail.