Reading fluency assessment: Objective and subjective measures

A fluent reading is fast and accurate, and this can be appreciated in the expressive quality of oral reading and reading comprehension. The purpose of this research is to analyze reading fluency in children with reading disabilities and typical reading developed children aged matched. The children will be assessed with a reading aloud comprehension task. The reading performances will be analyzed spectrografically, reading errors, vacillations and intra-lexical pauses will be measured and a subjective reading fluency scale will be use to evaluate the children's reading samples. Results show that children with dyslexia make more and longer pauses than typical readers. Patients also make more reading errors and vacillations and intra-lexical pauses. The dyslexics reading performance have consequence in their reading comprehension. Finally, spectrografical data, reading errors, vacillations and intra-lexical pauses, and fluency scale data show that subjective measures of fluency are a reliable tool to assess reading fluency.