How can I tell if a students has artificially induced whole-word dyslexia?
You can administer the Miller Word Identification Assessment Level One or Two. This assessments is very easy to give and yields valuable insight into the way students are identifying words. The test consists of two sets of words. One set is sight-words which are generally taught in kindergarten and first grade. The second list consists of words that are phonetically regular, and easy to decode, but not taught as wholes. A comparison of how the students read the two lists will give clear insight into how they are identifing words. Objective readers (those taught with phonics-first) read both lists at the same speed and free of errors. Subjective readers (those taught by sight-words first) read the sight-word list faster than the phonics list and misread more words on the phonics list than the sight-word list. The always complain that the phonics list was harder than the sight-words list. Subjective readers generally guess words from configuration (the outline or shape of the word) and c
