CDS 482LEC Lecture 13: 10.11 Assessment of Literacy
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Screen & identify at risk children for literacy difficulty. Assessment of reading/writing related to expressive communication & academic impact. Supporting classroom teachers, school with successful literacy practices. Word fluency: symbol, word & pictures rapidly. Narrative schema knowledge: sequence, proper sentence structure, cohesive. Reading decoding the ability to transform orthographic patterns of alphabetical letters into phonological patterns of a corresponding spoken word. Word recognition the ability to identify words when reading, either through word decoding or sight word identification, which may be called the direct route (i. e. , automatic recognition of a whole word without using strategies to decode) Can involve phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Problems can occur in the awareness, comprehension, and production of language at the sound, syllable, word, sentence, and discourse levels. (nelson, 2014b; nelson, plante, helm-estabrooks, Often co-occurs with the following: spoken language disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd, emotional disability, intellectual disability (id, deaf or hard-of-hearing (dhh, autism spectrum disorder (asd)