10 - Assessing and treating children with LDs and LLDs Flashcards
What are 10 Underlying Deficits that can contribute to LDs and LLDs?
Visual processing + perception
Auditory perception + processing
Phonological awareness + processing
Temporal processing
Word Retrieval
Orthographic processing
Attention
Working memory
Semantics + syntactic processing
Metacomprehension
What information can the classroom teacher give us?
4
How the child doing academically
Which subject areas are deficient
If there any requested accommodations
How child is doing pragmatically in class?
At what level should oral and written language level be in adolescents?
Above basic levels in both receptive and expressive
How quickly should adolescents be learning information?
Fast
Through what mediums do adolescents learn information?
3
Lectures
Computers
Books
How do adolescent decoding skills compare to younger children?
Should be quicker
How does Reading Comprehension differ in adolescents when compared to younger children?
(3)
There are fewer pictures for reference
Inferencing skills are required
Topics are more scientific, historical, etc
What two processes should adolescents be fluent in when reading?
(2)
Decoding
Comprehension
How should Decoding skills be in adolescents?
Automatic
What two things should adolescents be able to switch between when reading?
Phonological decoding
Lexical decoding
______ and ______ contribute differentially to reading decoding, specifically the development of ______ and ______ reading.
Speed + Accuracy
Automatic + Fluent
For comprehension in adolescents, ______ needs to be allocated to comprehension.
Attention
For adolescents, ______ becomes the predominant strategy for learning.
Silent comprehension
What three areas do we need to assess when evaluating language in adolescents?
Oral Language
Reading (decoding + comprehension)
Written language
What six domains of Oral Language do we need to assess in adolescents?
Phonological awareness
Phonological processing
Morphology
Semantics
Pragmatics
Syntax
