Alexia Treatment--Combined Lexical and Sublexical Approach

Author: Brett McCardel, MS, CCC-SLP

For many people with alexia, there is no one single cause for their reading difficulties. Rather, there are a variety of language processing components that are compromised and result in difficulty reading single words.โฃ
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๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ (Johnson, Ross, & Kiran, 2017) is designed to target ๐˜ผ๐™‡๐™‡ aspects of written word processing. โฃ
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Results from this treatment study found that participants not only improved their reading of trained and untrained written words, but also their ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด of these trained and untrained words! Talk about some ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ด!โฃ
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To learn more about how to use Combined Lexical and Sublexical Treatment in your own sessions, download our ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ-๐—ฏ๐˜†-๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ. โฃ
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Also check out our ๐——๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ to better understand the reading process, and how Combined Lexical and Sublexical Treatment targets each component of the reading process!โฃ
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For other evidence-based alexia treatments at the single-word level, check out Beesonโ€™s Phonological Treatment (@tactustherapy has a fantastic guide on this) and Kendallโ€™s Phonomotor Treatment (a comprehensive guide from the creators of Phonomotor Treatment can be found at https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1166215)โฃ
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Happy Alexia treating!โฃ
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