W13 - Literacy Impairment Flashcards
Using the Classification of Reading and Language Abilities by Snowling and Stackhouse, list the 4 types of reader.
- Precocious reader
- Garden variety poor reader
- Hyperlexia
- Dyslexia
What is a precocious reader?
Good semantic and good phonological skills
What is a garden variety reader?
- Impaired semantics and phonological skills
- Lots of reasons for clients to fall into this group - e.g. a language impairment such as DLD
What is hyperlexia?
- Good phonological skills
- Impaired semantic skills
What is dyslexia?
- Good semantic skills
- Impaired phonological skills
What are the causes of dyslexia?
Genetic - children are more likely to have dyslexia if their parents do
Neurobiological - brain differences are evident in people with dyslexia
Psychosocial Influence - lower SES = lower reading ability. Generally, larger families more likely to have children who are poor readers.
Beyond literacy, what potential impacts do people with dyslexia face?
- Learning new subject specific vocabulary
- Meeting deadlines
- Managing/Organising their Time
- Forgetting appointments
- Many poor readers disengage with literacy and education
At preschool age, what are the symptoms of dyslexia?
- Delayed speech
- Poor expressive language
- Poor rhyming skills
- Little interest in/difficulty learning letters
In the early school years, what are the symptoms of dyslexia?
- Poor letter-sound knowledge (GPC)
- Poor phoneme awareness
- Poor word attack skills
- Idiosyncratic spelling
- Problems copying
In the middle school years, what are the symptoms of dyslexia?
- Slow reading
- Poor decoding ability when looking at new words
- Phonetic spelling
In adolescence and adulthood, what are the symptoms of dyslexia?
- Poor reading fluency
- Slow speed of writing
- Poor organisation and expression in written work
