{"doi":"10.3850/s2345734122000113","title":"A Comparative Pilot Study of Curriculum-Based vs. Skill-Based Assessment for Dyslexia","abstract":"Introduction: Specific Learning Disability (SLD) is a certifiable disability for benefits under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act in India (2016) for which the NIMHANS SLD index is the legally mandated standard for assessment.We evaluated the NIMHANS battery against Dyslexia Assessment for Languages of India (DALI), a skill-based objective assessment.Methods: School going children (17 consented, 15 included in final analysis) from ages 5-10 years, and with IQ more than 85 on Malin's Intelligence Scale for Indian Children, and standard score 70 and above on Colored Progressive Matrices were assessed using the NIMHANS SLD index, curriculum textbooks, and DALI at the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology of a tertiary care, free teaching hospital in New Delhi.Various domains/tests were evaluated and categorized as comparable or non-comparable.Concordance analysis (kappa) was used to test for agreement in comparable domains and Spearman's rank correlation was used to test for relationship between all domains of NIMHANS battery and DALI.Results: Significant concordance between curriculum textbooks and DALI was found on tests for English and Hindi Spelling, English Reading, and English Comprehension.Significant correlations were found on tests for Spelling (both languages), Reading (both languages), and Comprehension (English only) between curriculum textbooks and DALI.Conclusion: We found curriculum textbooks, NIMHANS SLD index and DALI comparable in English tests for dyslexia and Hindi Spelling test.Given the complex education system and disparate examination testing systems in India, it might be beneficial to incorporate skill-based tests for SLD evaluation.","journal":"Asia Pacific Journal of Developmental Differences","year":2022,"id":314551,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.6987,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":771189,"name":"Vandana Shriharsh","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":390693,"name":"Triptish Bhatia","orcid":"0000-0003-0544-9707","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1013464,"name":"Pragati Goel","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1013260,"name":"Nandini Chatterjee Singh","orcid":"0000-0002-0005-5541","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":391651,"name":"Smita N. Deshpande","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":390688,"name":"Sushree Sahu","orcid":"0000-0002-1353-0997","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:33:52.047924Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}