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Journal of Education & Social Sciences - Volume 8, Issue 2 2020
By Ammara Farukh, Syed Shujaat Ali, Muhammad Shahid
10.20547/jess0822008203
Keywords: Reading deficits, screening batteries for dyslexia, nonverbal IQ, digit coding task, Raven's Matrices, WISC III.
The study tried to establish the role of non-verbal IQ tasks to screen the children for reading deficits including dyslexia at initial stages of their schooling. The participants of the study were 66 children screened from a bigger sample of a prior study (Farukh & Vulchanova, 2014). The participants were 9 years old, and studying in public and private sector schools of a developing district in Punjab, Pakistan. They were tested on 7 standard IQ tasks (WISC III & Raven's matrices). No significant difference on IQ scores was observed between the reading deficit group and the control group except the digit coding task. High Socioeconomic status (SES) and better educational opportunities were shown to act as a positive factor for better performance on IQ tasks.