ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to analyze the rapid automatized naming (RAN)'s accuracy for identifying students at risk/not at risk for reading difficulty. Two hundred and thirteen children performed the RAN tasks when they were in the last year of Kindergarten and 174 among them, accomplished the reading task when they were in the first grade of Elementary School. Analyses based on the ROC curve (Receiver Operating Characteristic) indicated that all the RAN measures (objects, colors, numbers, and letters) had a fair accuracy for identifying students at risk/not at risk for reading difficulty (AUC ≥ 0.70). RAN numbers had the best classification accuracy presenting sensitivity and specificity indexes of 88% and 50%, respectively.
Keywords:
rapid automatized naming; screening; reading; reading disabilities