A Study Of Dyslexia Among Primary School Students In Sarawak, Malaysia

The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of dyslexic reading problem among primary school students and the relationship between the degree of dyslexia and the demographic factors. Eight demographics factors, according to gender of age, class, parents' income, parent education, parents' occupation, students position in the family and the number of brothers and sisters in the family are chosen for the study. There are 32 characteristics of dyslexic student listed in the questionnaire “Dyslexia Screening Instrument”. 250 dyslexic students from 7 primary schools in Petra Jaya area in Sarawak, who were early determined in the pilot study were the sample in the study. The analysis is done by using SPSS Windows 6.1. The result of the study shows the dyslexic students concerned really facing reading problem because 58-62% of them exhibit the 32 characteristic of dyslexia. However, the relationship between dyslexia and the demographics factors is weak, that is at the correlation of r=0.0 – 0.12 only. This shows that the dyslexic problem among the students are of no correlation with the demographic factors.