Diagnostic system and method for phonological awareness, phonological processing, and reading skill testing
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1. A system for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
- a server computer comprising one or more tests for determining deficiencies in one or more reading and pre-reading skills, a scorer for determining a score for each test; and
one or more client computers that may establish a communications session with the server computer to download the one or more tests from the server computer, each client computer comprising means for displaying at least one of a graphical image and audio associated with each test located on the server, means for receiving a user response to one of the graphical images and audio presented by each test and means for communicating the responses for each test back to the server computer so that a skill level for each test and each reading or pre-reading skill being tested by the test is determined.
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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.
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133 Claims
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1. A system for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
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a server computer comprising one or more tests for determining deficiencies in one or more reading and pre-reading skills, a scorer for determining a score for each test; and
one or more client computers that may establish a communications session with the server computer to download the one or more tests from the server computer, each client computer comprising means for displaying at least one of a graphical image and audio associated with each test located on the server, means for receiving a user response to one of the graphical images and audio presented by each test and means for communicating the responses for each test back to the server computer so that a skill level for each test and each reading or pre-reading skill being tested by the test is determined. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 74, 82)
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19. A method for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, the method comprising:
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presenting one or more stimuli to the individual, each stimulus associated with a test for testing a particular reading or pre-reading skill of the individual, the skills indicating the risk that the individual develops or has a language-based learning disability;
receiving a response from the individual to each stimulus; and
scoring the user'"'"'s responses to each test. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 75, 83)
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37. A server for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
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one or more tests for determining deficiencies in one or more reading and pre-reading skills;
means for receiving responses from the individual to the one or more tests; and
a scorer for determining a score for each test. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 76, 84)
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55. An apparatus for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
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means for downloading one or more tests from a server, each test determining if the individual has a deficiency in a reading or pre-reading skill;
means for generating a response to the tests, the response being communicated to the server computer; and
means for receiving a score for each test from the server computer. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 85)
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78. A system for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
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a server computer comprising one or more tests for determining deficiencies in one or more reading and pre-reading skills, a scorer for determining a score for each test;
one or more client computers that may establish a communications session with the server computer to download the one or more tests from the server computer, each client computer comprising means for displaying at least one of a graphical image and audio associated with each test located on the server, means for receiving a user response to one of the graphical images and audio presented by each test and means for communicating the responses for each test back to the server computer so that a skill level for each test and each reading or pre-reading skill being tested by the test is determined; and
wherein the server computer further comprises means for downloading a tool recommended by the system to the client computer. - View Dependent Claims (90)
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79. A system for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
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a server computer comprising one or more tests for determining deficiencies in one or more reading and pre-reading skills, a scorer for determining a score for each test;
one or more client computers that may establish a communications session with the server computer to download the one or more tests from the server computer, each client computer comprising means for displaying at least one of a graphical image and audio associated with each test located on the server, means for receiving a user response to one of the graphical images and audio presented by each test and means for communicating the responses for each test back to the server computer so that a skill level for each test and each reading or pre-reading skill being tested by the test is determined; and
wherein the server computer further comprises means for recommending a training module to the user of the system based on the responses to the tests and means for downloading a tool recommended by the system to the client computer. - View Dependent Claims (91)
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80. A computer implemented apparatus for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
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means for presenting one or more tests to a user, each test determining if the individual has a deficiency in one or more of a reading, a pre-reading and spelling skill;
means for receiving a response to the tests;
means for determining a score for each test; and
means for receiving a recommendation, based on the scores of the one or more tests, for using one or more training modules for improving a skill of the individual as indicated by the score of the tests. - View Dependent Claims (81, 92)
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93. A system for testing one or more skills associated with the reading skills of an individual, comprising:
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a server computer comprising one or more tests for determining deficiencies in one or more reading and pre-reading skills, a scorer for determining a score for each test; and
one or more client computers that may establish a communications session with the server computer to download the one or more tests from the server computer, each client computer comprising means for displaying at least one of a graphical image and audio associated with each test located on the server, a speech recognition device for receiving and interpreting a verbal response from the user to one of the graphical images and audio presented by each test and means for communicating the responses for each test back to the server computer so that a skill level for each test and each reading or pre-reading skill being tested by the test is determined.
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94. A computer implemented method for testing one or more skills of a user, comprising:
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providing computer assisted instruction, wherein the computer assisted instruction further comprises providing one or more computer implemented tests to the user to test and diagnose one or more skills of the user using the computer system;
providing computer managed instruction wherein the computer managed instruction further comprises recommending a training module in response to the computer implemented tests. - View Dependent Claims (95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103)
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104. A computer implemented system for testing one or more skills of a user, comprising:
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a computer assisted instruction module, wherein the computer assisted instruction module further comprises one or more computer implemented tests provided to the user to test and diagnose one or more skills of the user using the computer system;
a computer managed instruction module wherein the computer managed instruction further comprises a recommender that recommends a training module in response to the computer implemented tests. - View Dependent Claims (105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
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114. A computer implemented method for testing one or more skills of a user, comprising:
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providing computer assisted instruction, wherein the computer assisted instruction further comprises providing one or more computer implemented tests to the user to test and diagnose one or more skills of the user using the computer system; and
the computer assisted instruction further comprising providing computer managed instruction wherein the computer managed instruction further comprises recommending a training module in response to the computer implemented tests. - View Dependent Claims (115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123)
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124. A computer implemented system for testing one or more skills of a user, comprising:
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a computer assisted instruction module, wherein the computer assisted instruction module further comprises one or more computer implemented tests provided to the user to test and diagnose one or more skills of the user using the computer system; and
the computer assisted instruction module further comprising a computer managed instruction module wherein the computer managed instruction further comprises a recommender that recommends a training module in response to the computer implemented tests. - View Dependent Claims (125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133)
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