Diagnosing Dyslexia in English Language Learners
English language learners (ELLs) represent one of the fastest-growing population segments in the United States. Yet many of the challenges these kids have while learning English – reading...
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There's very little research on this, and because there's so many different factors from being bilingual, and then the added risk of having dyslexia. For example, I'm taking English learners right now as an example, and that's the number-one growing population in the United States. If you look at these students, if you carefully look at their risk factors or their characteristics, if you can characterize them or assess them carefully, then phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, these problems and rapid naming, and these kind of early predictors for dyslexia, also applies to English learners. So in Spanish English, English learners you would look at both English and both Spanish, and then look at phonemic awareness, rapid naming, these ri...
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There's very little research on this, and because there's so many different factors from being bilingual, and then the added risk of having dyslexia. For example, I'm taking English learners right now as an example, and that's the number-one growing population in the United States. If you look at these students, if you carefully look at their risk factors or their characteristics, if you can characterize them or assess them carefully, then phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, these problems and rapid naming, and these kind of early predictors for dyslexia, also applies to English learners. So in Spanish English, English learners you would look at both English and both Spanish, and then look at phonemic awareness, rapid naming, these ri...
