Design of short Spanish sentences for measuring reading performance: Radner-Vissum test

Abstract

The 24 short single Spanish sentences were highly comparable in syntactical structure; number, position, and length of words; lexical difficulty; and reading length.

Feasibility of the Radner Reading Charts in low-vision patients

“…Recently, the strict principles of the Radner Reading Charts (RRCs) [10] were used to develop a Dutch-language [11] version of these charts, as well as versions in Spanish [12], English, Swedish, and Hungarian. Other language versions are in print or in progress [13].…”

Development of the Portuguese version of a standardized reading test: the Radner-Coimbra Charts

“…Similar to other language versions which are less related to German, such as the Spanish or Italian versions, the sentence criteria for the Portuguese version had to be modified also, reflecting the typical characteristics of our language with regard to lexical difficulty, syntactical complexity, word length, number of syllables, and position of words. Therefore, it is important for every language to test the reliability of the Radner Reading Charts, as has been stated in other studies (6,20,21) . Although there are important dissimilarities within a language group in the way people speak the same language, written Portuguese has fewer differences.…”

“…High reliability and validity of the sentence optotypes as well as high test-retest and interchart reliability have been shown for Radner Reading Charts (4,18) . A German version of Radner Reading Charts and versions in Spanish, English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish have already been developed (6,(19)(20)(21) . Other language versions are in process.…”

“…Routine single optotype distance visual acuity (VA) tests have been shown to be poor predictors of reading performance and cannot elucidate the full functional impairment of several ophthalmic diseases (2,3,5) . It is therefore becoming increasingly necessary to use methods that reproducibly measure the impact of visual disabilities on the patient's everyday life and to show that the recommended therapies successfully improve quality of life (4,6) . Modern reading charts, such as the highly standardized Radner Reading Charts, allow the simultaneous evaluation of reading acuity and reading speed and thus provide more detailed information about visual impairment than traditional near vision tests (e.g., Jaeger, Nieden, Parinaud).…”

“…Modern reading charts, such as the highly standardized Radner Reading Charts, allow the simultaneous evaluation of reading acuity and reading speed and thus provide more detailed information about visual impairment than traditional near vision tests (e.g., Jaeger, Nieden, Parinaud). In addition, such reading charts provide increased accuracy (6) for the evaluation of near visual performance and have become a valuable clinical tool for pre-and postoperative assessment and for visual rehabilitation (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) . International standards should be applied to the evaluation of reading performance.…”