NeureHizki is a clinical instrument for individual application designed to assess the cognitive processes involved in learning to read and write in Basque in pupils between the 4th year of Primary Education and the 4th year of Secondary Education, with the aim of identifying possible disorders in learning to read and write. The complete battery will consist of 7 tests that will enable the assessment of these processes.
The battery is still under development, so not all tests are available yet. See below a brief description of each of the tests of the battery:
Task: Hitz zerrendaren irakurketa (Reading word-list)
Aim: To assess reading level according to frequency and length of the words displayed.
Description: The subject will read 4 lists of words of varying frequency (high-low) and length (long-short) on paper. The tablet will record the reading process, as well as the reading time and mistakes.
Task: Pseudohitzen zerrendaren irakurketa (Reading pseudoword-list)
Aim: To assess reading level according to ability for grapheme-phoneme conversion.
Description: The subject will read 2 lists of words varying frequency (high-low) and length (long-short) on paper. The tablet will record the reading process, as well as the reading time and mistakes.
Task: Zentzurik gabeko testuaren irakurketa (Reading meaningless text)
Aim: To assess mechanical reading in a written context, without any semantic help.
Description: The subject will read a non-sense text on a sheet of paper. The reading time will be of 3 minutes.
Task: Fonemen banaketa (Phoneme segmentation)
Aim: To assess ability to identify and manipulate minimum structures of oral/spoken language, at a phoneme level, by segmenting the auditory word.
Description: The subject will hear an invented word and will have to divide it into sounds.
Task: Lehenengo hotsaren omisioa (Omission of 1st sound)
Aim: To assess the ability to identify and manipulate minimum structures of oral language, at a phoneme level, by omitting the first sound of the auditory word.
Description: The subject will listen to an invented word and, afterwards, will have to omit the first phoneme and produce the rest.
Task: RAN objektuekin (Object RAN)
Aim: To assess the ability to name pictures quickly.
Description: The subject will have to name a series of pictures as fast as possible.
Task: RAN zenbakiekin (Number RAN)
Aim: To assess ability to name numbers quickly.
Description: The subject must name a series of numbers as fast as possible.
