Reading

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Reading

• Woodcock Reading Mastery
• Gort 4

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Reading Disorders

• How do you read?
• Reading is a learned skill
• Most frequent LD
• Must use quantitative and qualitative analysis

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Normal Reading

• Perceptual analysis physical characteristics of
  written word
• Letter id-coding of visual figure into
• Lexicons stores of information
• Orthographic written words, information on
  shape and order of letters in word
• Phonological pronunciation of letter strings
• Semantic- word meaning and associations

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Reading

• Orthographically similar
• Cake, lake
• Pseudo word ortho similar tace ? lace
• Phonological code may activate semantic
• Semantic code can be activated by without
  phonological mediation (e.g. homophones sun and
  son)

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Reading

• Visual Perceptual Disturbance
• Alexia
• Neglect
• Orthographic
• Letter by letter reading
• Orthographic Representations
• Surface alexia difficulty decoding words,
  irregular spelling-to-sound
• Problem in automatic activation of ortho
  representation, treat all words as unfamilar
• Semantic
• Can read without understanding

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Woodcock Reading Mastery NU

• Form G and H
• Visual-Auditory Learning (Form G)
• Letter ID (Form G)
• Word ID
• Word Attack
• Word Comp
• Passage Comp
• Readiness Cluster, Basic Skills Cluster, Reading
  Comp.

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GORT 4

• Analysis of passage reading skills based on Rate,
  Accuracy and Fluency
• No subtests, child is asked to read a story.
• 14 stories in total. Grade based starting
• Raw score ? standard score