Testing and Diagnosing Dyslexia in Adolescents – Focused on Phonemic Awareness

Aim. Phonetic deficits are one of the core language-cognitive symptoms at cognitive level aetiology dyslexia in variety languages and orthographies. The presented study examines possibilities diagnosis phonological Slovak language (similar to Czech Polish grapheme-phoneme rules) students upper secondary schools. comparison 237 non-dyslectics 149 dyslectics schools brings new stimulus for diagnostic procedures counselling centres. Methods. Four phonemic awareness tests school (aged 15-20 years) were developed. testing tasks included on phoneme analysis/segmenting words non-words (10), synthesis/blending transposition (8), elision (8). Results. Dyslectics achieved a lower average score than non-dyslectics. First second year 15-17 similar scores, but third fourth 17-20 results. t-statistic analysis was 2.827 with df 56.259 p-value 0.007, indicating significant difference between groups under study. synthesis -2.568 284 0.011, also groups. t-statistics indicate that there is no dyslexic non-dyslexic group. Conclusion. brought several inspirations can be used re-diagnosis dyslexia, specifically adolescents.