Boder-type screening tests were constructed from basic school readers. Three naive raters classified spelling errors of 104 monolingual and bilingual reading-disabled children according to Boder's patterns of dysphonetic, dyseidetic, and mixed strategies. The reliabilities were .53 for one rater and .77 for three raters.
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