Poor comprehender

Question 1

Signs and symptoms

Answer 1

Poor comprehension
Good decoding skills
no problems in phonological processing- numerous other deficits in semantics, syntax, working memory, and higher level language processing

watching a poor comprehender would look like:
fluent (as opposed to dyslexic child)
story is off (got some aspects but was confused- right nouns but no actual story that happened- made sense though)
No pause or prosody to tell story

Question 2

Assessment?

Answer 2

PAT-2
TNL
USP, FD, Reading on CELF-5

Question 3

Results?

Answer 3

good PA skills

Poor usp, fd, reading subtest and TNL on comp questions

Question 4

Treatment?

Answer 4

Story grammar mapping- (visual aids and story grammar to help with comp/retell)

Morphological awareness- use word knowledge to understand meaning- teach in depth meaning of words… more than definitions, teach in context, semantic features, word parts… multiple exposures to words (teach/discuss/learn each word)

Question 5

Goals?

Answer 5

Graphic organizer to retell story with story grammar components

EET to describe features of nouns