14. SLD diagnostics

Basic diagnostic criterion: discrepancy between intellectual performance and performance in the monitored activity (reading, writing, counting)

Teacher diagnostics                                                                   Diagnostics in pedagogical-psychological counselling centre

  1. collection of auxiliary diagnostic data: medical, social school anamnesis of the child, most often ascertained, by interview with parents
  2. determining the level of intellect - discrepancy of intellectual performance and performance in school activities most often expressed by a different grade, IQ X RQ, IQ X MQ
  3. determining the level of performance in reading, writing, spelling, counting (quantity and quality of performance) reading: socially acceptable level of reading: 60 words / min. (3rd year)
  4. determining the level of functions that condition performance: perception (visual, auditory, perception of time, space, right-left orientation), laterality, attention, motor skills, rhythm, etc. (most often searching for partial performance deficits)

Keywords:

discrepancy criterion, IQ, RQ (reading quotient), MQ (math quotient), reading speed, text comprehension, specific errors