Literacy Evaluations
Pediatric professionals in the Ivy Rehab Network can assess your child’s ability to recognize letters, understand basic phonetic principles, and demonstrate early reading comprehension skills through age-appropriate activities and assessments.
What is a literacy evaluation?
A literacy evaluation assesses a child’s reading abilities, comprehension skills, and phonetic understanding through various tasks and assessments tailored to their developmental stage.
Benefits include:
- Identifies each child’s current reading level and areas needing improvement.
- Guides educators in selecting appropriate instructional materials and strategies.
- Helps track progress over time and measure growth in reading proficiency.
- Provides insights into individual learning styles and preferences.
- Supports early intervention efforts to address potential literacy challenges promptly.
When do we refer for literacy?
- When a child is at least in kindergarten, preferably the second semester, and struggles to learn letter names and sounds, memorize sight words, or sound out simple 3-letter words (bat, pet, log)
- When a child is in first grade or up and is struggling unusually and unexpectedly to read, spell, and/or get ideas into sentences on paper.
What may be included in a literacy evaluation?
- Background Information
- Intelligence testing is no longer considered necessary. Instead, oral language abilities (listening and speaking) and more predictive.
- Oral language skills testing
- Word recognition (word reading) testing
- Decoding (sounding out single words) testing
- Spelling testing
- Phonological processing testing
- Automaticity/fluency skills testing
- Text Reading/comprehension testing.
- Vocabulary knowledge testing
- Evaluation outcomes should provide the framework for the detailed evaluation of relative strengths and weaknesses across the various skill areas.
- Diagnosis should be made by a professional who is thoroughly familiar with the important characteristics of language-literacy disorders/dyslexia
- Intervention planning recommendations should be included in the written report.
Who does literacy evaluations?
Pediatric professionals in the Ivy Rehab Network, who complete literacy evaluations have completed their training in speech-language pathology at the master’s degree level. Beyond that training, they have had extensive training in language science, including reading and written language science, as well as in testing and measurement, as described by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the International Dyslexia Association standards.
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