Sandie Barrie-Blackley

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3. Severe phonological disorder or apraxia of speech in 4 year old boy?

Hettie~  What a great resource!  Thanks for sharing it!  Sandie

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• Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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This happens to me all the time, too.  Isolator requires (and develops) phonemic awareness and, as we know,  that is often the core deficit. If the child can't demonstrate phonemic awareness for th...

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• Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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So, the child's  intelligence is in the average range but she is reading impaired (based on her STAR level, the Gallistel Ellis, The Z-Screener, the TOWRE) but there are statistically significant d...

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Fascinating. Do you think this is due to schools' pressure to see children in groups (and the need for a one-size-fits-all approach) or due to difficulty connecting the child's deficit patterns wit...

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Abigail~  Hummm.  Suppose this happened in medicine. What if you went to your doctor with a sore throat and the physician just gave you whatever  medication that happen to have in the supply cabine...

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Melanie~ Sorry for the delay but I am snowed under.  I'm not sure exactly what your question is about this young man.  He certainly has a very significant reading disorder ( Total Word Reading Effi...

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3. Difficulty with reading one's own lowercase handwriting, reading numbers and number reversals problem.

Yen~  Dr. Virginia Berninger has done a lot of research work in this area. She would describe this pattern as dysgraphia. See What Is Dysgraphia?  and in this post be sure to check out S. Graham's ...

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3. Dyslexia 'subtypes'

There is a pretty good Wikipedia article addressing these issues.  A quote from that article follows.  < A deficit in naming speed is hypothesized to represent a deficit that is separate from phono...

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New article just out suggests dyslexia has phonological processing and naming speed/ reading fluency subtypes. A Taxometric Investigation of Developmental Dyslexia Subtypes Beth A. O'Brien1,*,Mar...

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3. Would Lexercise be helpful to children who have RAN (rapid automatic naming) deficits? Why? If so, how would we tailor the games?

Leslie~ Re: <How can I access previous discussions >. You can search the Forums by topic or survey all the topics by category here.  Re: your client who < does not have the financial means to affor...

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