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PhD, CCC-SLP
Kenn Apel, PhD, CCC-SLP, is professor and chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. For more than 30 years, Dr. Apel has been conducting research in the areas of spoken and written language and working with children, adolescents, and adults who have language-based learning deficits. Dr. Apel's current research focuses on the underlying linguistic components that support the development of word-level reading and spelling, with a particular focus on orthographic knowledge and morphological awareness. He currently is the principal investigator of an IES-sponsored grant to develop a morphological awareness assessment. Dr. Apel is the former Editor-in-Chief of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (2007-2009). He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a recipient of that association's Honors Award.
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Browse Course CatalogFoundations of Spelling and Word-Level Reading
Presented by Kenn Apel, PhD, CCC-SLP
Foundations of Spelling and Word-Level Reading
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Spelling and word-level reading are language skills that are crucial for academic, vocational, and social success. Both written language skills are supported by five "building blocks" that enable individuals to decode and encode words. These building blocks include: phonemic awareness, orthographic pattern awareness, morphological awareness, semantic awareness, and mental graphemic representations. This course will introduce these five building blocks of literacy and discuss how they impact word-level literacy development. The developmental phases of spelling and word-level reading also will be discussed.
Assessment of Spelling and Word-Level Reading
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Assessment of Spelling and Word-Level Reading
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Spelling and word-level reading are language skills that are crucial for academic, vocational, and social success. Both written language skills require individuals to use their phonemic awareness, orthographic pattern awareness, morphological awareness, and semantic awareness skills as well as their mental graphemic representations. This course will cover how speech-language pathologists and other educators/specialists can assess students' spelling and word-level reading abilities via norm-referenced and criterion-referenced measures. The goal of these assessments will be to determine which linguistic underpinning(s) may be leading to spelling and word-level reading deficits/difficulties.
Spelling and Word-Level Reading Intervention/Instruction
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Spelling and Word-Level Reading Intervention/Instruction
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Spelling and word-level reading are language skills that are crucial for academic, vocational, and social success. A multilinguistic approach to word-level literacy intervention/instruction necessarily targets all five "building blocks" of word-level literacy (phonemic awareness, orthographic pattern awareness, morphological awareness, semantic awareness, and mental graphemic representations). This course will cover specific language-based activities to improve spelling and word-level reading skills. Specific suggestions for tasks that target the various linguistic underpinnings of spelling and word-level reading will be reviewed.
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