Reading & Literacy

At IHA, The University Center for the Development of Language and Literacy (UCLL) at the University of Michigan offers comprehensive language and literacy evaluations and intervention services to assist individuals with reading problems.
 

Individuals who have reading problems may have difficulty with:

  • Learning to read (decoding, reading fluency, and comprehension)

  • Writing

  • Spelling

The populations that may have difficulty with reading may include:

Learning to read requires:

  • Awareness of sound structure of words

  • Verbal memory and retrieval

  • General language knowledge

Poor readers have shown to have difficulty with:

  • Receptive and expressive vocabulary

  • Semantic relations

  • Comprehension

  • Morphology and syntax

  • Phonological processing (Rhyming, Phoneme Identification, Blending, Segmenting, & Phoneme

  • Manipulation)

If you or someone you know has difficulty with reading it is important to get evaluated. Please contact UCLL if you have specific concerns about your child or to schedule therapy.