FRHD 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Phonological Awareness, Intellectual Disability, Teratology
17 Oct 2017
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Chapter 5 students with specific learning disorders. Assessing specific learning disorders: karl was assessed with the wechsler intelligence scale for children. Scored well on test of cognitive ability: also tested with the woodcock-johnson iii test of achievement. Revealed karl had good academic knowledge and highly developed ability to write meaningful sentences when surface errors are overlooked. Also revealed he has significant difficulties in reading, math-calculation, and spelling the comprehensive test of phonological processing (ctopp) tested karl"s phonological awareness, phonological memory, and ability to name letters and numbers rapidly. Phonological awareness is the awareness that language is composed of sounds and these sounds (syllables) are related to letters. Phonological memory is the coding of information according to its sounds for temporary storage in working or short-term memory: karl was also tested on the wide range assessment of memory and learning (wraml)
