UNITE SpLD 2017

Dian Dwi Sary Mustika Febryany, Gunawan, Nelfi Fitria
Department of Child Health, Zainab Hospital, Pekanbaru, Indonesia

BACKGROUND

The number of cases of children with ASD has risen dramatically. Provisional evidence also suggests children with ASD may be at increased risk for the nutritional and medical problem related to feeding behaviours, including nutrient deficiencies and growing problem.

OBJECTIVE
To compare physical status, intake of energy and macronutrients among ASD children and Typically Developing (TD) children.

Suvarna Rekha Chinta; Bapi Raju Surampudi; Bipin Indurkhya
1. International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
2. Cognitive Science Program, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

Telugu is an alpha-syllabic/ Akshara based South Indian language with orthographic consistency. The phoneme is not the basic unit of Telugu orthography nor the reading instructions based on phoneme. In that case, how a phoneme deficit can underlie reading difficulties in this population? Thus we predict that the phoneme deficits need not be the cause for reading difficulties, it could be
perceptual or RAN deficits among Telugu native speakers.

Kristiantini Dewi¹, Helena Nurramdhani Irmanda², Purboyo Solek¹

¹Dyslexia Association of Indonesia
²Telkom University

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty in language areas such as the language used for oral,
written and social communication. Dyslexia causes difficulties in reading, writing, spelling
and executive function. Therefore dyslexia causes difficulty in reading, further, it will affect
not only academic success but also self-esteem and social-emotional development.

Dyslexia cannot be cured, but the impact can be significantly reduced if identified and well
intervened as early as possible (International Dyslexia Association, 2013).

Problems in Indonesia are minimal and unequal dyslexia awareness, huge population that
brings a high number of dyslexic children, very few dyslexic experts, time and cost-inefficient
to get assessment and intervention from a reliable centre, all led to unintervened cases that
prone to poor long-term outcome. Therefore a valid and reliable yet easily accessed tool for
identifying the risk of dyslexia in pre-school aged is mandatory.

This study proposed dyslexia early identification system for Indonesian which can be used
by everyone and applied for a child as early as 5 to 7 years old at anywhere and anytime,
and generate a report that is in line with the Indonesian language and culture.