DysTest

Name: DysTest
Author: Masaryk University

By: Masaryk University

Battery of tests for the diagnosis of specific learning disorders in college students

Features & Capabilities

Within the project, a network of expert institutes to ensure inclusion in tertiary education (CZ.1.07 / 2 Feb. 00 / 29.0010) operational program Education for Competitiveness ESF was DysTest - Battery testing for the diagnosis of specific learning at university students and applicants for university study .

The emergence of this diagnostic battery in addition to the research work, which is the Centre for Students with Special Needs at Masaryk University, as partner schools participated Czech Technical University in Prague and University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and experts from Charles University and the Pedagogical-Psychological Counseling Central Region.

Presented The test kit is a response to demand long university departments that provide support for students with special needs, after adequate diagnostic tools. The battery is designed to psychologists, special educators, or psycholingvistům and other educational workers at service centers at universities, but also the staff of educational and psychological counseling service providing secondary school pupils, who are also candidates for studies at universities. The tool is designed exclusively for the diagnosis of people whose native language is Czech.

The result is a comprehensive set of diagnostic methods that affect the issue of dyslexia in the areas of reading skills, language skills, visual and auditory perception and memory. The battery incorporates screening questionnaire built on the principle of self-rating scale, which can be used in considering the indication of diagnostics and record input anamnesis investigation is possible to use ready anamnestic questionnaire.

The fundamental innovation is the use of information technology, specifically software applications that have implemented standards that serve as a basis for automatic evaluation of the results, but also embedded in a pre audio recordings to ensure uniform conditions for testing. The results are collectively shown through a generated text document, which serves as part of the final diagnostic report.