Questions and Answers
Role of SLP in reading and writing - ANS -ASHA strongly advocates for SLPs indirectly and
directly incorporating reading & writing interventions
Factors that influence reading development - ANS -family history
-language impairment
-hearing impairment
-cognitive deficits
-developmental delays
-poor attention
-difficult with phonological awareness tasks
-print concepts
-few home literacy experiences
-low SES
-cultural
Chall's Stage 0 - ANS birth-6 years
Emergent literacy
Chall's Stage 1 - ANS 5-7 years
end of emergent/beginning of early literacy
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, Chall's Stage 2 - ANS 7-8 years
early literacy
Chall's Stage 3 - ANS 8-14 years
conventional literacy
emergent literacy - ANS children's active efforts to construct literacy knowledge through
informal experiences
early literacy - ANS skills and knowledge that come before and lead up to (forerunners)
conventional reading and writing
conventional literacy - ANS reading and writing according to the rule-governed system of the
alphabetic principle and being able to read to learn
Primary targets of a preventative approach - ANS Code related skills; oral language skills
Code Related skills - ANS -phonological awareness
-print awareness
-alphabet knowledge
-emergent writing
Oral language skills - ANS -vocabulary
-inferential language
Phonological awareness - ANS metalinguistic understanding about the sound structure of
language
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