Predicting risk of dyslexia with an online gamified test

06/07/2019

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by   Luz Rello, et al.

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Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder related to school failure. Detection is both crucial and challenging, especially in languages with transparent orthographies, such as Spanish. To make detecting dyslexia easier, we designed an online gamified test and associated predictive machine learning model. In a study with more than 4,300 participants, our model correctly detected nearly 80 using a computational approach. An online screening tool based on our methods has already been used by more than 200,000 people.