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No SINGLE test exists that can identify dyslexia. No IQ test exists that can identify dyslexia. Diagnosticians should give a variety of tests which examine the individual's learning, language, perceptual, and intellectual strengths and weaknesses. Diagnosticians may be educational specialists, speech and language pathologists, or psychologists who are trained in the field of dyslexia. Questions PARENTS should ask when choosing a diagnostician: Cognition : Automaticity: A new framework for dyslexia research?*1. The performance of a group of 23 13-year-old dyslexic children was compared with that of some-age controls on a battery of tests of motor balance.
A dual-task paradigm was used—subjects performed each test twice, once as a single task, and once as a dual task concurrently with a secondary task. Two alternative secondary tasks were used, the classic counting-backwards task and an auditory choice reaction task. Both secondary tasks were calibrated for each subject to ensure that their performance on the secondary task alone fell between pre-specified performance criteria. In all single-task conditions there was no difference between the performance of the two groups.
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