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Then, children completed a gold-standard battery that included language, reading, phonological awareness, rapid naming, and memory measures.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Participants included 149 children and their caregivers. We used unadjusted logistic regressions to estimate the predictive value of each individual survey question for dyslexia, DLD, and typical development (TD) to retain questions at\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.05. Then, three stepwise logistic regressions were run to obtain a final, restricted model using the outcomes of dyslexia, DLD, and TD vs. any other diagnosis. Analyses indicated that the best-fitting model predicting TD vs. other groups in the combined sample included 14 items. The AUC for this set was 0.84. The specificity and sensitivity were 0.69 and 0.80, respectively. For the monolingual and bilingual samples separately, AUCs and sensitivity values were all greater than 0.80, and specificity values were 0.69 or above.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings indicate that the 14-item screener may effectively identify children at risk for dyslexia and DLD. 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