AVALIAÇÃO DA DISLEXIA

A avaliação da dislexia deve ser compreensiva e envolver medidas que excluam outros problemas (Reid, 2009). Assim, é importante avaliar os aspetos seguintes:

1. Linguagem. Para esta função pode recorrer-se à Bateria de avaliação da compreensão e expressão (Gardner, 2006) que avalia aptidões ortográficas, fonológicas, morfológi- cas, sintáticas, nomeação automática, fluência de leitura silenciosa, soletração de palavras específicas e fluência narrativa. Existem outros testes, mas não estão valida- dos para a população portuguesa.

2. Inteligência. Para o efeito, pode recorrer-se à WISC-III e/ ou às Matrizes progressivas de Raven.

3. Perceção e memória visual. A Figura Complexa de Rey é o teste apropriado para esta avaliação, mas pode também ser usado o Teste de retenção Visual de Benton.

4. Perceção e memória auditiva. Um teste de ritmos (p.e., de Myra Stamback ou de Sea- shore), ou o PASSAT seriam adequados, mas falta a devida validação portuguesa.

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