Assessment and intervention of reading difficulties and dyslexia in bilingual children - Assessment principles

3 important questions on Assessment and intervention of reading difficulties and dyslexia in bilingual children - Assessment principles

What should be collected in the case history?

1. Overall development and home / language situation
-> Parents
- Development / medical / psychological / hereditary (erfelijke) factors 
- Literacy skills parents: languages / proficiency / history of difficulties
- Literacy process bilingual child: parents' exceptations in terms of single of multiple literacy development.
2. Task and complaint analysis (current reading and spelling difficulties in L1 / L2
-> Parents + school   
- Reading difficulties related to reading accuracy, reading fluency or reading comprehension?
- Word reading skills - language skills?
- Type of error?
3. Emergent (opkomend) literacy development ~ literacy precursors (voorloper)   
4. Reading pleasure

Describe the areas that could be assessded?

1. Assessment of phonological awareness bv phonemes deletion
2. Assessment of rapid naming: bv name common letters, numbers,... As quick as possible.  This skill is linked to reading fluency.
3. Assessment of phonological short-term memory: bv nonword repetition task.
4. Assessment of decoding skills: bv decoding fake words.
5. Assessment of reading fluency and comprehension
6. Assessment of spelling

How do we make a problem analysis?

We make a SWOT analysis.
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
= internal factors (child)
- Opportunities
- Threats 
= external factors (environment)

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