Questionnaire Private Language School teachers knowledge of dyslexia

My name is Paulina Kruczek. I am a student at Warsaw University. I am writing my project on

Private Language School teachers knowledge on dyslexia. The questionnaire is anonymous and the
collected data will be used only for preparing my project.

1 Age: ______
2 Gender: ______
3 Educational qualifications (language certificate, Bachelor, Master, PhD): _______________
4 Number of years teaching (<1 year, 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, >20): _________
5 Which group(s) of students do you teach? (grades1-3, 4-6)
6 Have you ever taken part in any courses about dyslexia? ______________
7 Given an opportunity, would you attend a course about dyslexia? _______________
8 Do you think you have sufficient knowledge and skill to deal with the problem of special educational needs
of dyslexic learners? ____________
9 Have you ever experienced difficulties in teaching individuals with dyslexia? ___________
10 If yes, what was the difficulty?
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Put a cross in an appropriate column

Definitely false
Definitely true

Probably false
Probably true

1. Seeing letters and words backwards is a

characteristic of dyslexia.
2. Dyslexia can cause difficulty with writing.
3. Children can outgrow dyslexia.
4. Dyslexia can be caused by a literacy-poor home
environment.
5. Children with dyslexia need more systematic and
explicit reading instruction than their typically
developing peers.
6. Dyslexia can be helped by using coloured lenses
and/or coloured overlays.
7. Dyslexic parents are more likely than non-dyslexic
parents to have children with dyslexia.
 8. Eye tracking exercises are effective in remediating
dyslexia-caused difficulties.
9. Reading ability and intellectual ability are related.
10. Individuals with dyslexia have difficulty with
decoding/word recognition.
11. Dyslexia occurs more frequently in boys than girls.
12. Dyslexia is a disability specific to the English
language.

13. Children who are dyslexic tend to have lower IQ

scores than children who are not dyslexic.
14. Certain medications have been found to be effective
in treating dyslexia.
15. Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects
language processing.
16. Dyslexia affects a childs performance exclusively
in reading and language arts subjects.
17. Children with dyslexia also have problems with
spelling.
18. One of the major reasons for dyslexia-caused
difficulties is due to visual problems.
19. Dyslexia and emotional/social problems are highly
correlated.
20. Dyslexic children may have additional learning
difficulties (ADHD, dysgraphia etc.).

21. Every dyslexic child presents the same symptoms.

22. Dyslexic students may have poor phonological

awareness.
23. Children with dyslexia have difficulties with every
academic discipline.
24. Dyslexic students have slower pace of reading.

The questionnaire is adapted from: Washburn, E., Binks-Cantrell, E., & Joshi, R. (2013). What do preservice
teachers from the USA and the UK know about Dyslexia? Dyslexia, 20(1), 1-18. Retrieved June 3, 2017,
from http://wileyonlinelibrary.com