Why Literacy Matters
This is the broad skill area that allows individuals to participate involving activities such as reading mail, completing forms, texting, reading menus, and writing emails.
What is literacy? --- Literacy
Madden and Bush described their study as using this type of research design because they collected both quantitative and qualitative data.
What is mixed methods? --- Mixed-Methods Design
This percentage of participants reported that their literacy abilities changed after their stroke.
What is 100%?
Before their strokes, participants often described reading and writing using words such as “happy,” “enjoyable,” “good,” and this word which describes a lack of strong feelings.
What is indifferent?
Name one strategy participants reported using to make reading easier.
What are reading slowly, sounding out words, using visual supports, text-to-speech, or audiobooks? --- Any of the 3
According to the article, literacy difficulties can negatively affect independence, social participation, and what other broader aspect of someone’s well-being?
What is quality of life? --- Quality of Life
Participants needed to be at least this far post-onset in order to participate in the study.
What is 3 months? --- 3 months post-onset
This percentage of participants wanted to improve both their reading and writing skills.
What is 95%?
Name two emotions participants commonly described immediately after their stroke.
What are sadness, anxiety, loneliness, frustration, or discouragement? --- Any 2 of the 4
This group was identified by participants as one of the most helpful sources of reading and writing support.
Who are speech-language pathologists?
Compared with spoken language rehabilitation, behavioral assessment and treatment resources for this area after stroke are minimal.
What is reading and writing/literacy? --- Literacy Skills
Participants completed this many closed-ended survey questions addressing reading and writing before and after stroke.
What is 68?
Reading work materials dropped from 90% before stroke to this percentage after stroke.
What is 24%?
According to participants, this literacy skill often seemed to return more easily than writing.
What is reading?
A client says, “I don't care about reading worksheets. I just want to be able to text my grandchildren.” What should the SLP take from this?
What is… literacy intervention should be functional and based on the client's personally meaningful goals (any applicable answer counts)