Literacy Impairment Flashcards
What is literacy ?
The use of visual modes of communication
*READING AND WRITING
Encompasses language, academic, and cognitive processes.
Spoken versus Written Language
*Reading and writing are not just speech in
print.
*Must be able to encode and decode as well as comprehend.
Literacy
60% of children with language impairments may have difficulties with literacy.
*May lack preliteracy skills
Deficits can occur in adulthood
Illiteracy
Acquired loss of language from
neuropathology such as dementia and aphasia.
Role of SLP in literacy development
SLP is interested in children’s language deficits and the ways in which these deficits influence the acquisition of literacy.
ASHA: SLPs have the following responsibilities
*Educate teachers and parents in the oral
language-literacy relationship
*Identify children at risk
*Make referrals to literacy-rich programs
*Recommend assessment and treatment in preliteracy skills
SLP is a part of a team.
Decoding
DECODING
*Segmenting a word into its component
sounds and blending together to form a word
*Phonological skills essential.
Text comprehension
Text Comprehension
*Syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics
areneededforcomprehension
*Language and experience needed to interpret message
Phonological awareness
Knowledge of sounds, syllables, and sound structure of words
Phonemic awareness
PHONEMIC AWARENESS
*Ability to manipulate sounds (blending,
segmenting)
Related to reading and spelling skills
Determine when sound or syllable deleted, to blend, and to compare initial phonemes
Comprehension
Combination of text, text grammar, and world knowledge/experience
Several levels *BASIC LEVEL
Concernedwithdecoding
Critical literacy
Active analysis and synthesis,ableto explain the content
Dynamic literacy
*Dynamic Literacy
Relatecontenttoknowledgethrough reasoning
Metacognition
Self-appraisal
*Knowledge of one’s own cognitive processes
Executive function
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
*Self-regulation *Ability to:
Attend
Set reasonable goals
Plan and organize
Initiate, monitor, and evaluate Revise plans and strategies
Emerging literacy
Begins within social interaction
*Shared book reading
Dialogic reading
DIALOGIC READING
*Interactive method of reading picture books
Print awareness
PRINT AWARENESS
*Knowledge that print has function and meaning
*Later,recognizing words as discrete units, identifying letters and using terminology