Moody K C, Holzer C E, Roman M J, Paulsen K A, Freeman D H, Haynes M, James T N
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 77555-0173, USA.
Tex Med. 2000 Jun;96(6):69-75.
Approximately 80% of prison inmates are reported to be functionally illiterate. We hypothesized that poor single word decoding (the chief feature of dyslexia) accounts for a significant percentage of that rate. We studied 253 subjects selected randomly from more than 130,000 Texas prison inmates. Among them, we conducted a cross-sectional sample survey of recently admitted Texas inmates, beginning with social and educational background and followed by an educational test battery that included measures of word attack skill and reading comprehension. Deficient performance was defined primarily as single word decoding performance that measured below the 25th percentile on the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test. We found that 47.8% of the inmates were deficient in word attack skills. Word attack skills were detected in each group defined by gender and ethnicity. Nearly two thirds of the subjects scored poorly in reading comprehension.
据报道，约80%的监狱囚犯是功能性文盲。我们推测，较差的单字解码能力（诵读困难的主要特征）在该比例中占相当大的比例。我们从超过13万名得克萨斯州监狱囚犯中随机挑选了253名受试者进行研究。其中，我们对新入狱的得克萨斯州囚犯进行了横断面抽样调查，首先了解他们的社会和教育背景，随后进行一套教育测试，包括单词攻击技能和阅读理解测试。表现不足主要定义为在伍德科克阅读能力测验中，单字解码表现低于第25百分位数。我们发现，47.8%的囚犯单词攻击技能不足。在按性别和种族划分的每个组中都检测到了单词攻击技能不足的情况。近三分之二的受试者阅读理解得分很低。
