| Subject: Treatment for Reading Problems including Dyslexia |
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David Tyler
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Date Posted: 09:31:53 04/15/05 Fri
The Reading Success Lab Reading Intervention Program Helps Readers Build Word Recognition Skills
The Reading Success Lab Skill Builder Module was designed to build reading skill levels for identified weaknesses. There are a number of Intervention Sets available, for use with the Skill Builder Module, targeted for different academic problems and weaknesses. Intervention Sets are specific word lists that the reader learns to recognize instantly by sight. Through 20 minutes of daily exercises the reader begins to master the content, with answers becoming automatic. Readers who practice with the Skill Builder Module Intervention Sets get better at word recognition, even words they have not yet practiced.
Often phonics-based exercises can be effective with readers who lack fundamental reading skills. The true dyslexic reader (estimated to be 5-7% of total population) will gain little benefit from phonics-based exercises. Sounding out words using phonics may result in slow and halting reading, which severely hampers fluent reading and reading comprehension. True dyslexic readers will often continue to have to sound out words, and thus never achieve fluent reading.
Reading Success Lab, www.readingsuccesslab.com, is offering a free trial of the Skill Builder Module with a sample of our Grade 3 Intervention Set. With this download we are also offering free dyslexia screening in the form of downloadable software.
Currently, with the purchase of an Intervention Set ($29.00) you receive the Skill Builder Module free ($60.00 value). In addition, we offer full assessment software, our Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment For Reading Difficulties Module, currently for $69.00 allowing for 15 runs (enough to test the whole family). The Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment For Reading Difficulties Module identifies a wide range of reading difficulties and determines where the reading process is breaking down. The reading evaluation presents students with a series of reading tasks and then collects both time (speed of performance) and accuracy (percent of task items completed correctly) data when the tasks are being performed. The measurement of both the speed and accuracy of performance is a unique aspect of the assessment system. Typical assessment procedures only measure the accuracy of reading performance. The measurement of speed of performance not only makes the assessment system a powerful procedure for identifying learning difficulties, it also makes it an excellent procedure for measuring educational progress associated with attempts to improve a student's reading performance.
James ‘Mike’ Royer, Ph.D., Director of the Laboratory for the Assessment and Training of Academic Skills (LATAS), of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and software developer Jeremy Wise, Ph.D. developed the Reading Success Lab software for assessing and treating learning disabilities.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us direct at CustomerCare@readingsuccesslab.com
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