2117V - Reframe Your Thinking About SLP Roles in Assessment and Treatment of Dyslexia

SLPs have preparation in phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic relationships among words for identifying and treating dyslexia and associated language/literacy disorders. Strategies for filling possible gaps in knowledge about orthographic pattern learning will be discussed. Participants will consider language/literacy assessment profiles of students with the word-structure problems that typify dyslexia, and how those problems are influenced by accompanying strengths or weaknesses of vocabulary and related skills needed for oral and written language comprehension and expression. Case examples will be drawn from assessment with the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) and Student Language Scale (SLS), of which the presenter is first author. Take-aways will include parameters for making intervention decisions in an inter-professional family-centered curriculum-relevant environment.