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Is your child a poor reader ? Maybe he or she just needs a memory upgrade

Is your child a poor reader ? Maybe he or she just needs a memory upgrade. Martin Beaudoin, Ph.D . University of Alberta Suzanne Sauvé, MSc-SLP, R. SLP(C). Goals of the talk. Summarize the demographics of French Schools of Alberta Dual-route model of reading

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Is your child a poor reader ? Maybe he or she just needs a memory upgrade

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  1. Is yourchild a poorreader? Maybehe or shejustneeds a memoryupgrade Martin Beaudoin, Ph.D. University of Alberta Suzanne Sauvé, MSc-SLP, R. SLP(C)

  2. Goals of the talk • Summarize the demographics of French Schools of Alberta • Dual-route model of reading • Describeprereadingskills • Show examples of tests from the battery • Demonstrate a demo of the web version • Nextsteps…

  3. A map of Canada…

  4. Demographics of French schools in Alberta • Alberta is 1.9% French-speakers, compared to 23% for Canada as a whole; all are bilinguals • 35 French schoolsacross the province • 6 428 childrenregistered in 2012-13 • Large proportion of recent immigrants and refugees in someschools (up to 95%) • Thesechildren arrive atanyage and are integrated in schools by age, not educational background • Imagine the language and ethnicsoup!

  5. Reading-aloudfrom a cognitive perspective Hillis, A.E. (2001). Cognitive NeuropsycholigicalApproaches to Rehabilitation of LanguageDisorders: Introduction. In Chapey, R. Language Intervention Strategiesin Aphasiaand RelatedNeurogenic Communication Disorders. pp 513-523.

  6. Prereadingskills • Manyskills are involved in reading, depending on the type of reading • The best known are phonological and phonemicawareness • Lexical access and verbal memory are alsofairlywellknown • However, manyothers are important for some of the subtasksinvolved in reading • Also, dyscalculiaiscloselyrelated to mostforms of dyslexia

  7. General characteristics of test battery • All responses by children are spoken (thusrecorded) • Onlyreading tests involvewrittenwords/nonwords • Time ismeasured or limited in a number of tests • Minimal visualdistractors on screen • Computer-testinglimitserrorpotential and allowschools to run the batterywithout a specialist • Tests are marked by trainedtechnician and reviewed by SLP withconsideration of childhistory • Entire test batterytakes about 30-40 minutes

  8. Basic reading tests (not actualorder) • Reading-aloud speed test (# wordsin 1 minute) • Regular-wordsreading (lexical access) • Irregular-wordsreading (lexical and non-lexical access) • Nonwordreading (lexical and non-lexical access) • Syllable inversion (phonologicalawareness) • Initial phonemedeletion (phonemicawareness)

  9. Nonwordreading

  10. More specific tests • Morpholexicaldecision (morpho. awareness) • Sentence repetition (verbal memory and syntacticawareness) • Immediate and delayedauditoryrecall (short-term verbal memory) • Rapid-Access-Naming of animal (lexical access) • Rapid-Access-Naming of letters (graphemicaccess)

  11. RAN (animals)

  12. Numeracy tests • Rapid-Access-Naming of digits (numericalaccess and visualaccuracy) • Digit sequencerepetition (verbal and numericalmemory) • Inverted digit sequencerepetition (workingverbal and numericalmemory)

  13. Demo of web version of battery Passwordprotected site with registration: http://prereading.dlinkddns.com/login.jsp

  14. Future steps… • Norming (maybeFall 2014) • Translation to English and Spanish (2014-15) • Automatic speech recognition (?)

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