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ANNUAL SURVEYS OF READING DISABILITY IN A SCOTTISH COUNTY
Author(s) -
COCKBURN JUNE M.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1973.tb00756.x
Subject(s) - psychology , reading (process) , test (biology) , developmental psychology , demography , linguistics , sociology , paleontology , philosophy , biology
S ummary . During the past 11 years the Child Guidance Service in Angus, Scotland, has carried out an annual survey of the reading attainment of all 7‐year‐olds (averaging 1,500 children each year), using (from 1963) the Vernon Graded Word Reading Test. Individual follow up annually of between 100 and 200 children who have made a very poor start in reading has been undertaken. In 1969, a further reading survey of 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds showed that just over half of the children considered seriously backward in reading when tested at 7 to 8 years of age, were still seriously backward at 10 to 11 years of age. Over the years there has been fluctuation in the size of the very backward group, with a rise in the percentage considered very poor readers in each of the four years 1967 to 1970. Some improvement was shown in 1971 and 1972.