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Oral and Written Language activities can greatly impact comprehension, fluency, and other aspects of reading. The following checklists are guides to the tasks that are common in those areas which point to deficits and which may need more comprehensive evaluation and /or remediation.
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When I first started becoming aware of the many mechanisms that have to be in place and functional in order to read, I really thought it was pretty amazing that anyone ever learns how to read let alone become proficient. Frequently, we accept the evaluations that school districts give us because...
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