Developmental Literacy Impairments

Question 1

Main components of literacy impairments

Answer 1

language, visual processing, motor processing, and auditory processing.

Question 2

Literacy (2)

Answer 2

The use of visual modes of communication, specifically reading and writing
* As many as 60% of children with LI have difficulty with literacy, Preliteracy, reading,

Question 3

Decoding (2)

Answer 3

Segmenting a word and blending the sounds together to form a word. 1st step in reading

Question 4

Phonemic awareness (2)

Answer 4

The ability to manipulate sounds. Related to reading skills

Question 5

Critical Literacy

Answer 5

Active analysis and synthesis of information; ability to explain content.

Question 6

Dynamic Literacy

Answer 6

Relate content to other knowledge through reasoning, comparing/contrasting, integrating, and using ideas for raising problems and solving them.

Question 7

Metacognition (3)

Answer 7

Knowing what to do and how to do it. Self-appraisal and executive function

Question 8

Self-appraisal

Answer 8

knowledge of one’s own cognitive process

Question 9

Executive function

Answer 9

Ability to attend, set goals, plan and organize to achieve goals and revise plans.

Question 10

Dialogic Reading

Answer 10

An interactive method of reading picture books.

Question 11

Print Awareness

Answer 11

Early on, it consists of knowledge of the meaning and function of print, basic concepts concerning the direction print proceeds across a page and through a book, and recognition of some letters. Begins to develop around age 3. Later, it includes recognizing words as discrete units, being able to identify letters, and using terminology such as letter, word, and sentence.

Question 12

Phonics

Answer 12

sound-letter correspondence