Sensory-Cognitive Focus on Individual Needs

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Diagnosis:
Sensory-cognitive instruction focuses on individual needs and, therefore, requires individual diagnosis to determine strengths and weaknesses in reading, spelling, and language comprehension.

 

These items include:

•Vocabulary
•Phoneme awareness—symbol imagery—gestalt imagery
•Word attack (phonological processing)
•Word recognition (orthographic processing) spelling
•Paragraph reading (both accuracy and fluency)
•Oral and written language comprehension

*The above meet the criteria—and go beyond—the five components of Scientifically Based Reading Research (SBRR): phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Sensory-cognitive Instruction is:

•Diagnostically driven to meet the needs of an individual child

•Customized to ensure sensory processing is developed and applied to reading, spelling, language comprehension and critical thinking

•Delivered in one-to-one, small group, and classroom environments