Is phonological awareness an instance of consciousness?
Fernando Leal, University of Guadalajara, Mexico Judith Suro, University of Guadalajara, Mexico Although dyslexia has been connected to a deficit in phonological awareness as revealed in reading acquisition, an application of the stage model of skill development to reading reveals a curious anomaly in such an explanation. The first stage of any skill acquisition is acutely conscious, so any novice reader has to become aware of phonology in order to learn how to read. Once a reader becomes more proficient, the processing of phonological information necessary for reading recedes beneath consciousness. Since dyslexics never quite achieve full automaticity, they do not suffer from a deficit, but from an excess of phonological awareness. Implications of the Embodied Mind for Clinical Practice Glenn E. Good, Wayne State University School of Medicine At the dawn of the 20th century, neurologist Sigmund Freud introduced the book The Interpretation of Dreams which provided a methodology for lis
