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ORAL LANGUAGE/ACHIEVEMENT. Many students with reading/writing problems exhibit this discrepancyBest for diagnosis, not qualificationGenerally listening comprehension higher than basic reading (decoding)Distinguishes between cog. Processing Disorder and pervasive language disorder. DISCREPANCIES.
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1. WJ III ORAL LANGUAGE/ACHIEVEMENT DISCREPANCY Comparing Extended oral language ability to specific achievement clusters
2. ORAL LANGUAGE/ACHIEVEMENT Many students with reading/writing problems exhibit this discrepancy
Best for diagnosis, not qualification
Generally listening comprehension higher than basic reading (decoding)
Distinguishes between cog. Processing Disorder and pervasive language disorder
3. DISCREPANCIES Oral Language/Reading, Writing
BEST to determine “unexpected” failure
Predicted/reading, Writing
Good to compare cognitive potential to language
GIA/Reading, Writing
POOR comparison
4. ORAL LANGUAGE PROCEDURE Administer Oral Language Extended achievement subtests (#3, 4, 14, 15)
Administer selected Reading and/or Written Expression clusters
Select Oral Language discrepancy as Compuscore option
Examine comparison for significance