Let's review Jay's performance
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Let’s review Jay’s performance, which includes measures on standardized and informal tests. This evaluation will include signs of dyslexia, auditory attention span, perception and memory, phonological awareness-phonological memory-rapid naming, symbol orientation, digit span, sounds, reading, comprehension, and spelling and writing.
SIGNS OF DYSLEXIA.
Signs of dyslexia are mixed dominance which is strength in both right and left eyes, ears, and hands, reversed sequence which is counter to the left to right flow of language, and verbal labeling weaknesses which is language overload.
Dominance.
Jay wrote with his right hand, but used his right hand along with his left hand when he worked with sound blocks. He used his right eye on a preferred eye test and listened at times with his right ear and other times switched to his left ear. Ideally he should be right dominant and consistent.
Sequence.
The English language flows from left to right. Reversed sequence indicates that language processing is flowing opposite to language flow which results in dyslexic errors (transposing, reversing, inverting, omitting, substituting). Right-left confusion occurred with abstract sounds. Lindamood Auditory Conceptual Test and with Jay’s forming of letters and digits and with his sound sequencing.
Verbal Labeling.
Jay showed overload when directions became complex. This measure uses hand commands to point to personal body parts and then to those of the examiner. The first three questioned his sense of right and left. He succeeded on the one step tasks--show me your right hand, show me your left ear—but erred with the two step task (touch your right ear with your left hand), hesitated, then self-corrected. When the examiner became involved, overload occurred. He erred on the one step--point to the examiner’s hand. On the two step tasks (point to my right eye with your right hand), he succeeded identifying his own right or left hand, but erred when he had to switch opposites and identify the body parts of the examiner. Overload and errors occurred in tasks with more than one step.
Jay showed all three signs of dyslexia: mixed dominance, reversed sequence, and verbal overload.
AUDITORY ATTENTION SPAN.
Auditory attention span is essential in order to learn and be successful in processing sound. Jay’s successes were inconsistent. The most difficult part for Jay was when he had to manipulate the auditory input of abstract sounds. He struggled with changing the placement of two abstract sounds. He treats new words with the same weaknesses when he omits, substitutes, and transposes sounds.
Let’s review Jay’s performance, which includes measures on standardized and informal tests. This evaluation will include signs of dyslexia, auditory attention span, perception and memory, phonological awareness-phonological memory-rapid naming, symbol orientation, digit span, sounds, reading, comprehension, and spelling and writing.
SIGNS OF DYSLEXIA.
Signs of dyslexia are mixed dominance which is strength in both right and left eyes, ears, and hands, reversed sequence which is counter to the left to right flow of language, and verbal labeling weaknesses which is language overload.
Dominance.
Jay wrote with his right hand, but used his right hand along with his left hand when he worked with sound blocks. He used his right eye on a preferred eye test and listened at times with his right ear and other times switched to his left ear. Ideally he should be right dominant and consistent.
Sequence.
The English language flows from left to right. Reversed sequence indicates that language processing is flowing opposite to language flow which results in dyslexic errors (transposing, reversing, inverting, omitting, substituting). Right-left confusion occurred with abstract sounds. Lindamood Auditory Conceptual Test and with Jay’s forming of letters and digits and with his sound sequencing.
Verbal Labeling.
Jay showed overload when directions became complex. This measure uses hand commands to point to personal body parts and then to those of the examiner. The first three questioned his sense of right and left. He succeeded on the one step tasks--show me your right hand, show me your left ear—but erred with the two step task (touch your right ear with your left hand), hesitated, then self-corrected. When the examiner became involved, overload occurred. He erred on the one step--point to the examiner’s hand. On the two step tasks (point to my right eye with your right hand), he succeeded identifying his own right or left hand, but erred when he had to switch opposites and identify the body parts of the examiner. Overload and errors occurred in tasks with more than one step.
Jay showed all three signs of dyslexia: mixed dominance, reversed sequence, and verbal overload.
AUDITORY ATTENTION SPAN.
Auditory attention span is essential in order to learn and be successful in processing sound. Jay’s successes were inconsistent. The most difficult part for Jay was when he had to manipulate the auditory input of abstract sounds. He struggled with changing the placement of two abstract sounds. He treats new words with the same weaknesses when he omits, substitutes, and transposes sounds.
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