Diagnostic system and method for phonological awareness, phonological processing, and reading skill testing

Abstract

A diagnostic system and method for evaluating one or more phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skills of an individual to detect phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skill deficiencies in the individual so that the risk of developing a reading deficiency is reduced and existing reading deficiencies are remediated. The system may use graphical games to test the individual's ability in a plurality of different phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skills. The system may use speech recognition technology to interact with the games. The system may include a module for providing motivation to a user of the system being tested.

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       332 . A system for recommending a training module based on one or more tests, comprising: 
 means for determining the incorrect responses to one or more tests wherein the incorrect responses indicate a reading skill deficiency; and    means for recommending a training module that improves a particular reading skill based on the incorrect responses.    
   
   
       333 . The system of  claim 332 , wherein the recommender further comprises means for comparing each incorrect response to one or more error measures to generate an error measure associated with each incorrect response and means for generating a training module recommendation based on the error measures.  
   
   
       334 . The system of  claim 333 , wherein the comparing means further comprises means for generating one or more error measures for each incorrect response.  
   
   
       335 . The system of  claim 333 , wherein the recommender further comprises means for identifying a deficient skill by comparing the error measure to a deficient skill rule and means for generating a training module recommendation based on the identified deficient skill.  
   
   
       336 . A method for recommending a training module based on one or more tests, comprising: 
 determining the incorrect responses to one or more tests wherein the incorrect responses indicate a reading skill deficiency; and    recommending a training module that improves a particular reading skill based on the incorrect responses.    
   
   
       337 . The method of  claim 336 , wherein the recommender further comprises comparing each incorrect response to one or more error measures to generate an error measure associated with each incorrect response and generating a training module recommendation based on the error measures.  
   
   
       338 . The method of  claim 337 , wherein the comparing further comprises generating one or more error measures for each incorrect response.  
   
   
       339 . The system of  claim 332 , wherein each client computer further comprises means for motivating the user to complete the tests.  
   
   
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       482 . The method of  claim 337 , wherein the recommender further comprises identifying a deficient skill by comparing the error measure to a deficient skill rule and generating a training module recommendation based on the identified deficient skill.