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Reading is one of the most basic and complex activities that must be acquired by the majority of all populations if they are to progress educationally. Without reading skills, individuals can only communicate verbally and the storage or preservation of knowledge becomes problematic. Thus, all advanced races must master the teaching and learning of reading and writing. Reading can be defined as a cognitive brain-based process which leads to understanding symbols representing sounds.
Many argue that reading difficulties can be attributed to genetic variance in the population. Reading has four perceptual-processing elements or components: visual, auditory, tactile/kinesthetic, and integrated abilities. Each of these elements can be evaluated. It is possible to learn to read without all of these abilities, although teaching and learning will be much more challenging. Auditory processing can be evaluated using a variety of verbal techniques such as asking an individual to make...
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D’Amato, R.C., Pang, C.B. (2018). Reading. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1479
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