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Speech Therapy for
Reading Readiness and Literacy

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Speech Therapy for Reading Readiness & Literacy

Reading Readiness/Literacy

Speech Language Pathologists are trained in related speech and language components that are used for reading such as: decoding, fluency, reading comprehension, syllable structure, letter sound awareness and sound production. Your SLP will provide the following reading readiness level assessment to determine your child's reading abilities and treat accordingly. 

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Phonemic Awareness Inventory 

Level 1

  • Whole Word Discrimination –  hearing if two words are the same or different.

  • Rhyming Words- Recognition –  identifying if two words rhyme.

  • Rhyming Word- Application – Rhyming Words independently.

  • Syllable Counting – Determining how many syllables in a word.

Level 2

  • Syllable Segmentation – Breaking the Word down into Syllables.

  • Oral Synthesis- Blending Speech Sounds.

Level 3

  • Approximation – identifying is they hear sounds at the beginning, middle or end of the word.

  • Phonemic Isolation – discerning which phoneme they hear at the beginning, middle or end of words.

Level 4

  • Segmentation – separating the word into sounds.

Level 5

  • Phonemic Deletion – Saying the word by leaving off the beginning or end sound.

  • Phonemic Substitution – Replacing the first sound in the word with a given sound and identifying what the new word is.

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