Psychológia a patopsychológia dieťaťa, 43, 2008, č. 3, s. 230–238

 In the second stage of the longitudinal research of cognitive development of Roma children, the number of 109 Roma pupils of 1st-6th grades of basic schools underwent the one’s construction test of reading. The preliminary results show that the Roma pupils profoundly fall behind representatives of the non-Roma population (even though the control group consisted of pupils with special educational needs). Pupils of 1st-3rd degree of basic school do not have their reading technique acquired yet and they only guess the meaning of particular words; older pupils have remarkable problems with understanding of the read-out text even in case it is very simple. This is apparently one of the significant reasons of their failures in school where the prevailing part of information is given particularly by means of written texts.

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