Phonological Awareness Case Study

o Jose applies basic phonemic awareness skills for unknown words; however, he struggles with sight words which may hinder his reading abilities. He struggles when more advanced phonemic skills are required such as with deletions, substitutions, and reversals. Jose will benefit in rigorous activities to build his phoneme and grapheme understanding and build his phonological awareness.
o His capability to correlate an object to its name also fell below average in comparison to other children of the same age. In reading comprehension he scored extremely low and may present severe struggles in complex reading materials. Oral spelling of individual words was severely below level; however, he scored average in written expression. Jose has difficulties

following oral instructions; however, he could retain some stories that were read verbally. Although his functioning improved when presented with visual materials.
o It was established Jose has below average expressive language which reflects poor syntactic and semantic awareness. Jose demonstrated difficulties in identifying relationships between words or their meanings. This exhibited below average knowledge of vocabulary words, and he struggled with prepositional use.
o Jose’s skills for special and temporal sequential ordering are average when simple language is used. When complex language was utilized, his abilities became impaired. However, with visual aids and constant instruction his capabilities greatly improved.
o It was observed that Jose exhibited irregularities in problem solving tasks using critical thinking skills. Once again, when given guidance and visual aids improvement was detected. However, he exhibits limited flexibility in applying different approaches to solve complex problems. Jose may benefit from the teacher applying scaffolding strategies.
• Mathematics:
o Jose’s overall comprehension of perceptions, symbols, and math vocabulary scored below average. His mathematical application skills are below average and he may have difficulties in solving problems where practical math knowledge is needed. However, his fundamental computation skills were deemed average; therefore, he may apply mathematical reasoning to solve complex problems.