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- The phases that a musician goes through to learn to play the piano are remarkably similar to those that we go through when we learn to read.
- The purpose of this module is to help you gain perspective of the challenges that individuals with learning disabilities face in learning to read.
- The Matthew Effect deals with the concept that good readers will read more and develop larger vocabularies and background knowledge than their peers with poorer reading abilities.
- Some of the effects of poor reading include higher drop-out rates, fewer employment opportunities, lower incomes, poorer health, and higher rates of imprisonment.
- There are 2.4 million school-aged students with learning disabilities, 2 million of whom have challenges in learning to read. These learning disabilities are a lifelong challenge.
- The Online Academy Reading Modules have been developed to help teachers gain the knowledge and skills to be able to make the instructional decisions and provide the types of research-based interventions that have been shown to increase the reading abilities of individuals who are at risk for or who have reading disabilities.
- Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language. This may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
- Information processing is the ability to listen to someone speak or to read some material and organize those messages in our minds so that we can remember, recall, and use the information when we need it.
- State and federal laws protect the rights of those individuals with disabilities if the disabilities substantially limit a major life activity such as learning to read.
- The IEP (Individualized Education Program) is developed by a multi-disciplinary team to document the learning and social goals agreed upon for the coming year.
- It is difficult to recognize a learning disability in the early stages of a child's education, but by 2nd grade and on, continued failure and poor progress will signal potential disabilities.
- There are three major types of reading disabilities: (1) poor word recognition, good comprehension; (2) good word recognition, poor comprehension; and (3) poor recognition, poor comprehension.
- Difficulty in identifying individual sounds in spoken words is one indicator of a possible reading disability, as is not being able to comprehend what is being read.
- Phonological awareness is an important foundational skill and ability for accurate and fluent word recognition.
- Development of reading comprehension requires an exposure to a wide range of written materials and the development of vocabulary and background knowledge.
- Text comprehension depends on how actively engaged the reader is in trying to construct meaning.
- All comprehensive reading programs should include a language and literacy-rich environment, a well-designed curriculum, utilization of effective instructional principles, and continuous assessment of student progress.
- The cornerstone of providing effective instruction for individuals with reading disabilities is continuous assessment.
- A basal reading program used in the classroom would offer a thoroughly sequenced set of teaching activities that focus on teaching word decoding, balanced with a wide variety of rich reading and writing activities.
- Even those individuals without learning disabilities, but who struggle with learning to read, are likely to benefit from interventions that have been developed for those with learning disabilities.
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