Diagnostic system and method for phonological awareness, phonological processing, and reading skill testing

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-05-19
COGNITIVE CONCEPTS INC
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[0012] The diagnostic system and method for evaluating phonological awareness and processing skills and related pre-reading and reading skills in accordance with the invention provides a system for identifying individuals, such as children in kindergarten through second grade, who are likely to experience academic failure due to phonological processing deficits and a lack of phonological awareness. The system may also determine the relative weaknesses and strengths of the individual or group of individuals in different phonological awareness and processing areas or related reading skills in order to help develop appropriate intervention and curriculum activities to improve the weak skills and areas. The system may also track, over time, an individual's development or a group's development of various phonological awareness and processing skills and relating reading skills and establish a baseline so that the

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For inefficient and disabled readers, the reading impasse exists in the perceptual and conceptual elusiveness of phonemes.
Children with reading problems have been found to perform poorly on memory span tasks for items with verbal labels.
In addition, phonological processing deficits have been identified by researchers as the most probable cause of reading-related learning disabilities.
The problem is that there is no diagnostic tool currently available to help professionals and the school personnel to identify children who are at-risk due to phonological awareness deficit and to help plan, evaluate and document the effectiveness of intervention and instructional methods.
None of these conventional assess

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[0053]FIG. 1A is a block diagram illustrating a first embodiment of a computer-based phonological skills diagnostic system 50 in accordance with the invention. In this embodiment, the diagnostic system 50 may include a server 52 and one or more client computers 54 (Client #1-Client #N) connected together by a communications network 56, that may be the Internet, the World Wide Web (the Web), a local area network, a wide area network or any other type of communications network. In the embodiment shown, the communications network is the Web and a typical Web communications protocol, such as the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), may be used for communications between the server and the client computer. In particular, the server may download one or more Web pages to each client computer and each client computer may send responses back to the server.

[0054] The server may further comprise a central processing unit (CPU) 58, a memory 60, a database (DB) 62, a persistent storage device 64...

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[0058]FIG. 1B illustrates an example of a second embodiment of a computer-based phonological skills diagnostic system 50 in accordance with the invention. In this embodiment of the invention, there may be the server 52 (whose elements and functions are described above and will not be described herein) that is connected via the communications network 56 to one or more clients as above. In this embodiment, each client may be a teacher computer system 84, such as a server computer, a local area network server computer or a personal computer that is connected to a network, (Teacher Station 1, Teacher Station 2, . . . , Teacher Station N) that is connected to the server 52 over the communications network 56. The teacher station may have similar elements to the clients shown in FIG. 1 and like elements have like reference numerals and will not be described here. To implement the diagnostic system in accordance with the invention, the CPU 70 of the teacher station may execute a diagnostic ...

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A diagnostic system and method for evaluating one or more phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skills of an individual to detect phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skill deficiencies in the individual so that the risk of developing a reading deficiency is reduced and existing reading deficiencies are remediated. The system may use graphical games to test the individual's ability in a plurality of different phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skills. The system may use speech recognition technology to interact with the games. The system may include a module for providing motivation to a user of the system being tested.

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RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 350,791, filed Jul. 9, 1999, entitled “Diagnostic System and Method for Phonological Awareness, Phonological Processing, and Reading Skill Testing” and owned by the same assignee as the present invention.APPENDIX [0002] This disclosure includes and incorporates Appendix A which is attached. Appendix A is 24 pages and discloses details of the data graphing and reporting functionality of the diagnostic system and method for phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skill testing. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] This invention relates generally to a diagnostic system and method for testing one or more different areas of phonological awareness, phonological processing, verbal short term memory, rapid access naming, phonemic decoding and reading fluency in order to determine if the individual being tested is at risk to having reading problems and t...

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IPC IPC(8): G09B5/04G09B17/00
CPCG09B17/006G09B5/04
Inventor WASOWICZ, JANETLAI, FENG-QIMORRISON, ANDREW
Owner COGNITIVE CONCEPTS INC
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