SCIENCE OF READING I: PHONICS, LINGUISTICS, & INTERVENTIONS

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The course addresses phonemic awareness, phonics, advanced word reading, and reading fluency for students who struggle to read, have a learning disability, or have dyslexia. Through use of research validated strategies in phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and spelling, the processes and skills children and adolescents use to read fluently are examined as well as similarities and differences in reading instruction for students with LD and dyslexia and typical readers. The difficulties encountered by students with dyslexia and language and learning differences are reviewed and best practices in teaching phonemic awareness, decoding/phonics, and spelling are emphasized through discussion, modelling, and demonstrating. PREREQ: ENROLLMENT IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS: SPECIAL EDUCATION ANY EMPHASIS (MSE) OR COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS (MS) OR DYSLEXIA AND LBLD CERTIFICATE