What are the major cognitive and related factors involved in literacy difficulties? How are these assessed?
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• Cognitive Factors: overall cognitive ability or ability to learn, memory, associative learning, and the ability to pay attention.
• Language Factors: language delayed, language impaired, articulation difficulties, poor phonological awareness, inadequate automatized rapid naming, and deficient word finding
• Orthographic Processing: difficulty with homophones (pair-pare-pear) and irregularly-spelled words
• Affective Factors: learned helplessness, fixed mindset, lack of self-efficacy, lack of positive identity as a reader
• Physical Causes: neurological factors, hearing and vision impairments, visual processing deficits
• Social, Cultural, Economic, and Educational Factors: family factors; poverty; educational factors, such as not using appropriate materials; inadequate instruction
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3 out of 4 or 3/4
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