PURPOSE: to identify the symptoms of dyslexia in 1st grade students and verify the effectiveness of the phonological training program in children under risk of dyslexia and verify children under risk who have not improved after training for the presence of dyslexia through interdisciplinary diagnosis. METHOD: the participants of this study were 30 children from the 1st grade in public schools, of both genders, from 6 to 7 years and 11 months old. In this study we adapted the research about training phonological skills. The phonological training program was adapted in three stages: pre-testing, training and post-testing. All children were submitted to the test for early identification of reading problems; only 13 children showed difficulty in performing more than 51% of the test and were submitted to the training program. The children were divided as follows: Group I (GI) with 13 children who were submitted to the program; and group II (GI) with 17 children who were not submitted to the program. RESULTS: there were statistically significant differences, suggesting that 11 children submitted to the program showed better performance at a post-test when compared to pre-testing, only 2 children did not respond to the proposed intervention, being submitted to an interdisciplinary evaluation. CONCLUSIONS: the accomplishment of the phonological skills training program was effective for the children under risk of dyslexia, proven for the improvement of the phonological and reading skills in a situation of post-testing in relation to pre-testing.
Dyslexia; Evaluation; Rehabilitation; Reading; Child
