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Re: Additional Disabilities

From: Judy
Date: 15 Oct 2010
Time: 20:25:06 -0500
Remote Name: 173.76.249.199

Comments

Well, let me throw out an idea...reading (an perhaps many other skills)may rely partially upon learned material that is accessed quickly when needed. So, for example, children study sight words so that these words can be recognized and read quickly and without effort and resources can be spent on reading more difficult content. These sight words are perhaps somehow stored in the brain for quick reference. I wonder if the DIVA model of speech processing could be generalized/expanded to speculate that if semantics and literacy skills are not well established as targets for a feedforward process, then speech fluency could be affected. Then, if semantics and literacy skills were improved some positive effect might occur in speech fluency too. Ahhh, I wish the next generation of researchers the best in working out the possibilities! Perhaps the fields of language and literacy have already done this. :)


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