What role do associative word-learning and working memory difficulties play in cases of serious reading disability?

What will be an ideal response?


• Associative word learning is a serious difficulty learning to associate sounds and symbols. 
• Most likely rooted in phonological coding difficulties and inefficient memory
• Represents the most severe reading difficulty
• Students have severe difficulty learning letter names, letters sounds, and high frequency words.
• Working memory may be involved. Working memory is a cognitive system used to temporarily store and manipulate data, such as letter names and sounds and words. 
• Learning letter sounds and words requires acquisition of a stable phonological representation of the sounds, which is what phonological memory helps achieve.

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