People with serious comprehension difficulties have what is called Wernicke’s aphasia. They often say many words that don’t make sense or may fail to realize they are saying the wrong words. They may string together a…
Based on Brianna’s score in the DSI screener, she is in the letter naming stage, near at the end of kindergarten. Based on her letter naming subtest, Brianna is struggling with initial and final consonants. This is reflected in her TOWRE scores, where Brianna is 5th and 6th percentile in identifying sight words and pseudo words. These results show that Brianna does not recognize spelling patterns that may help her decode words. This correlates with her low scores during the GORT assessments and CTOPP in phonemic awareness. However, Brianna’s highest scores were comprehension on the GORT, as well as rapid letter naming and rapid digit naming on the CTOPP. This suggests that Brianna has a stronger visual memory and stronger listening comprehension…
The mother reported that Tina was the product of a normal pregnancy and delivery. The patient weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce at birth. Tina’s health has been good except for one occurrence when she was hospitalized for pneumonia when she was 2 years of age. Although Tina has reached all her developmental milestones within developmental norms (e.g. walking, talking, toilet training.), her mother is concerned about her communication development. The mother reported that the patient speaks with a lisp and pronounces “r” words with “w’’ such as weally/really and westing/resting. Additionally, the mother reported that Tina speaks in short phrases rather than complete sentences. Furthermore, the mother also stated that due to Tina being small for her age sometimes individuals comment on her speech and mention that it sounds very cute. Furthermore, the mother explained that when Tina speaks she utilizes short sentences that often include grammatical errors. These grammatical errors include confuses him/her, uses “-ed” for regular and irregular past tense verbs, and uses “-s” for all plural nouns.…
While she initially read with confidence and made good use of the punctuation, she re-read parts of sentences in the final passage indicating that she was monitoring her reading for meaning. She made 13 errors in the final reading passage. This would suggest that Keira’s reading strategies broke down with unfamiliar and more complex language, particularly polysyllabic words. This was also indicated by Keira’s CTOPP2 results for phonological awareness (standard score 82) and her single word reading WRAT4 (standard score 80). Keira’s speed of reading was standard score 90 (mid-average…
They may not make clear sounds, struggle to say words with S, Z, B, G, K, D, R, etc. or pronounce incorrectly.…
They believe because she is inspired and charity act to society to make her a notable person. she seem like a kind and giving who care about animals and people. She seem like nice person don’t think she is man stoler.…
‘Not able to ‘read’ some non verbal communication- Workers at ‘Happy Valley Special School’ or assistants who work there could help…
The conclusion that was reached supported the hypothesis which expressed that the groups with poor decoding had bad word reading scores that were at the 12th to 13th percentile on average and well below the comparison groups, who were slightly above average.…
It has previously been shown that children with cleft lip and palate are more likely to display only a variable expressive deficit, while children with a cleft of the palate only were found to have a higher frequency of underlying symbolic language deficit in addition to verbal expressive problems (Richman, 1980). Previous studies have demonstrated that the ability to segment words into phonetic units (phonic segmentation) is often deficient in children who are reading disabled (Shankweiler and Leiberman, 1976).…
Death after death after death. One by one they passed away in tragic, horrific accidents. On top of the daily deaths, wages dropped and riots began. Women and children began to question whether the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts were a new beginning for them, or the end of it all. In the early to mid 1800’s, Francis C. Lowell, an American born and raised in Massachusetts, created mills to generate a working place for women and children.…
According to Fraser, Goswawmi, and Ramsden(2010), the greatest predictor to determine an individual becoming a successful reader is phonological awareness. Phonological awareness is the ability of a student learning to read to recognize sounds, language patterns that are oral and combine these with the sounds of the alphabetic creating a the written word. However, according to Trehearne and Healy (2003) by the time a child becomes a student in kindergarten at least 20% of those entering will struggle with phonological awareness and 10 % will have difficulties in reading.…
If I use the bottom up approach to reading, she does ‘use phonics to the exclusion of all other cues in reading’ (cited by Atkinson, 2013, pg.8). Because she tends to sound out each grapheme- using synthetic phonics, before blending a word, unless it is a very simple three letter word she recognizes- she sometimes loses the…
The words that Kayla correctly spelled were “and” and “can,” whereas she misspelled “girl,” “which,” “now,” “book,” “these,” and “come.” The assessor observed that Kayla attempted to sound out the words, but appeared to have no concept of encoding single syllabic words. The assessor was unable to identify a pattern after analyzing the incorrect spellings. Kayla spelled “girl” as grd, “which” as wihc, “now” as naw, “book” as bukc, “these” as thers, and “come” as cum. Kayla was also asked to dictate the sentence: “The girl read a book to her family.” She scored 37.5% for spelling, encoding 3 words out of 8 correctly. Similarly to the Spelling Test, Kayla misspelled “girl,” “read,” “book,” “her,” and “family.” Kayla also did not capitalize “The” at the beginning of the sentence or conclude the sentence with a period. However, Kayla appeared to understand the use of spacing between words and wrap around for text. Before the beginning of the test, Kayla self-reported a difficulty in spelling and seemed to be apprehensive about taking the test, speaking negatively about herself. The assessor observes a difficulty with encoding and print concepts involving punctuation. The assessor will work with Kayla on encoding through the “Have a Go” game and journaling. The “Have a Go” spelling game works on a student’s ability to encode words. They are given two chances to spell the word correctly, but after two the must look at the word and write it down. Journaling will also aid her encoding abilities, but the assessor will also work with Kayla on her punctuation and other print concepts. It is in the assessor’s opinion that one of the main focus during the tutoring sessions with Kayla should be…
Teaching decoding provides students with the keys to unlock new words. Teaching the regular phonetic patterns of English can do this. These rules can be applied to words with which the student is already familiar. New words are then introduced beginning with simple words and working through more complex words. Finally, irregular phonemic patterns can be introduced and eventually mastered.…
By Jeffrey Kluger; Alice Park There's a chilly arithmetic to the way we all get sick. At the end of any year, a fixed and knowable number of us will have developed heart disease, and another number won't have. There will be a different entry in the ledger for cancer, another for lung disease, another for Parkinson's or dementia or HIV. The people who study those mortal metrics--the actuaries, the epidemiologists--don't give too much thought to the individuals behind the numbers, and the truth is, they can't. It's no good sentimentalizing math--not if you want to get anything useful out of it. But sometimes it's impossible not to: sometimes the person who is sick has a very recognizable face. So it was in 1985, when Rock Hudson, Hollywood heartthrob of an earlier era, died of complications from AIDS and a country that thought it could fence off a disease suddenly realized we were in this together. So it was in 1995, when Christopher Reeve, a man best known for playing a character utterly immune to injury, was thrown from a horse and suddenly could do nothing at all without help--and with that, the spinal-injury community had a point man a lot more powerful than Superman. And so it was again when Angelina Jolie, the most beautiful woman in the world by a lot of people's lights, stepped forward and announced in an op-ed in the New York Times that she had undergone a double mastectomy, an operation she decided to have after learning that she carried a genetic mutation that in her case increased the odds of developing breast cancer to a terrible 87% and ovarian cancer to 50%. She decided to get tested because her mother died of ovarian cancer at age 56. Jolie herself has no current signs of either disease. She explained her treatment decision with a simple clarity: "Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and minimize the risk as much as I could." She explained it with an eye toward the 12% of…