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bobbie

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Describe the academic skills deficit and core cognitive processes associated with a learning disorder in the area of reading. How do you think each of these deficits might impact a child's ability to be an effective reader?
 
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According to the model developed by Wells (2005), the roots of generalized anxiety disorder lie in ____.
 
  a. beliefs regarding the function of the actual worrying itself
  b. beliefs that worry can provide effective ways to cope with aversive situations
  c. beliefs that worry can provide solutions to a client's challenges
  d. ineffective methods for dealing with difficult situations



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Answer to Question 1

 Word recognition
o Academic skill deficit is single-word decoding
o Core cognitive process is phonological awareness, rapid naming of letter and digits, and working memory for verbal and/or acoustic information
o Impact  slows down fluency; makes reading comprehension difficult because of not knowing words either in isolation or in context; difficulty in learning unfamiliar words
 Reading fluency
o Academic skill deficit is reading speed
o Core cognitive process is rapid automatized naming
o Impact  when reading for information or reading with a group, this might impact child's pace in classroom (when others are done reading, the child with a learning disorder is still reading the same material); when reading a sentence or passage the child may forget what they have read before; impact on self-esteem and relationships with others
 Reading comprehension
o Academic skill deficit is extracting meaning from text
o Core cognitive process is language skills, working memory, and inferencing
o Impact  difficulty using reading to gain information; impacts all academic areas where learning is primary based on independent reading

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