Author: Brett McCardel, MS, CCC-SLP
Treatment for alexia at the paragraph/discourse-level tends to emphasize metacognitive strategy use and environmental supports. โฃ
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Approaches you may consider using include:โฃ
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๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐๐บ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป (๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ):โฃ
-Patient reads passage aloudโฃ
-Patient reads passage again silently in 2-3 sentence chunksโฃ
-Patient provides short oral summaryโฃ
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-๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ: Skim and scan the text to get the gistโฃ
-๐๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ: Ask yourself questions about what you have readโฃ
-๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ: Find the answers to your questions and read carefullyโฃ
-๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ: what you read in your own wordsโฃ
-๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต: yourself immediately and laterโฃ
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๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ต๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป:โฃ
-Focus on improving reading comprehension by incorporating aphasia-friendly text supports (drawings, personally relevant photos, reader-friendly format)โฃ
-Incorporate ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด such as headings and bolded textsโฃ
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If youโre looking for resources to help with treatment planning, you may consider using @newsela or @readworks. There are fantastic sites that will provide weekly current events articles that can be scaled to multiple reading grade levels, ranging from Kindergarten to college-level. These sites offer multiple choice questions for all passages as well, and the best part is that these services are FREE to utilize!โฃ
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