Research Symposium

BIO

Rohita is from Port Orange, FL. She is in her second year and working towards her Bachelor of Science in Biology. Outside of her dyslexia research with Dr. Wagner's team, she is a certified medical assistant at a primary care office and volunteers with the Alzheimer's Project as an Americorps Member.

Dyslexia Meta Analysis

Abstract

Dyslexia is defined by the International Dyslexia Association as a neurobiological developmental learning disorder that is characterised by having trouble decoding, recognizing, and spelling words. As much as this form of neurodivergence is common, the mode of diagnosis for developmental dyslexia seems to often fall short of its interventive power. Because previous research suggests that no single predictor works well for complex phenomena such as dyslexia, this project aims to analyze common predictors of dyslexia using a model based meta-analysis (MASM) of the current literature in the field. This meta-analysis seeks to consolidate thousands of articles from scholarly sources and scientific journals to further strengthen the idea that three predictors of dyslexia— phonological processing impairment, poor response to intervention, and family history of dyslexia— are reliable modes of early prediction and diagnosis. Facilitated by a team of several reviewers, each article is title and abstract screened, full text reviewed, and extracted to create a proportional model to illustrate the statistical relevance each factor has in relation to the prediction and diagnosis of dyslexia. Though still in progress, the meta-analysis has now advanced to the extraction phase and is working towards a definitive result.

Keywords: Dyslexia