PURPOSE: to check the efficacy of the phonological training and grapheme-phoneme correspondence program in first-grade children under dyslexia risk. METHODS: thirty municipal public study students of both genders from 1st grade took part, ranging from 6 to 7 year old. In this study we used the Brazilian adaptation of the research on phonological abilities training and grapheme-phoneme correspondence composed of pre-testing, training, and post-testing. In the pre and post-testing situation, all children were submitted to the test for early identification of reading problems and those who presented less than 51% of the tasks of the test were divided into Group I (GI): consisted of 15 children who were submitted to the training program; and Group II (GII): consisted of 15 children who were not submitted to the training program. RESULTS: the results of this study demonstrated statistically significant differences, indicating that from 15 children who were submitted to the program, just 1 child did not answer the proposed intervention, being submitted to interdisciplinary evaluation and confirmed the dyslexia diagnosis. CONCLUSION: the phonological ability training and grapheme-phoneme correspondence program were effective for identifying children with dyslexia symptoms, proven by the improvement of the phonological abilities and of reading in the post-testing situation compared to pre-testing, indicating that when the formal instruction concerning the alphabetical principle of the Portuguese language is provided, children who do not show dyslexia stop demonstrating such manifestations as an answer to the formal instruction of the alphabetical principle.
Dyslexia; Evaluation; Early Intervention; Reading; Child
