Educational Help, Inc., The Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software Development Team

Reading Success Lab Team

James 'Mike' Royer, Ph.D.

James Mike Royer Ph.D., Director of the Laboratory for the Assessment and Training of Academic Skills, UMass Amherst, responds to questions about Current Research On Finding Solutions To Reading Problems

Jeremy Wise Ph.D.
Responds To Questions about the Software.

Table of Contents

Basic Reading Skills

Reading Skill

Reading Problems

Reading Disability

Reading Assessment

Dyslexia Assessment

Reading Comprehension Test

Improving Reading Comprehension

Dyslexia Treatment

FREE Reading and Dyslexia Screening software

Educational Help, Inc. Introduces The Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software

With fifteen years of leading-edge laboratory research based on theories of cognitive skill development to support development, we'd like to introduce you to the versatile Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software.

We have designed a first rate data collection system that has unparalleled flexibility and ease of use.

Introducing The Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software For Researchers

The Researcher Version is intended for University Researchers who are interested in designing and running their own experiments using the engine of our product. There are numerous researchers who are using the product for that end. The Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software has been tested by a wide variety of Colleges, Universities, and by Researchers.

The software has been in use for over 15 years at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in their Laboratory for the Assessment and Training of Academic Skills (LATAS). Here the software has been refined to identify those readers with reading disabilities and to provide intervention exercises that increase reading comprehension.

Introducing The Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software For Families

We appreciate parents concern about learning disabilities and have released the Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software in a version for parents.

Take our FREE Reading And Dyslexia Screening Test. This unique test measures not only the accuracy of the reader's responses to the test questions, but also how quickly the reader was able to answer each question. Our software measures the speed of response, identifying those reading skills that the reader has thoroughly mastered and those reading skills that are not yet automatic.

Our research-based Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment For Reading Difficulties Module identifies a wide range of reading difficulties and determines where the reading process is breaking down. With the software we are able to present the task items on a computer screen and have the student respond into a microphone. This gives us a measure of response time that differentiates between readers with varying skill levels.

Readers who have reading problems require special assistance that is called an intervention. Our Skill Builder Module was designed as an intervention to build reading skill levels for identified weaknesses.

The Reading Success Lab reading intervention program helps readers build word recognition skills. The logic behind building automatic word recognition skills is based on the ideas that words that are recognized by thinking about them makes reading a laborious process. This can cause increasingly greater difficulties as a student moves into junior and senior high school where the reading load in subject matter areas such as science, math and social studies greatly increases.

HOMESCHOOL FAMILIES: We would like to introduce our software to home educators, families who educate their children from home.

ADULTS WITH READING PROBLEMS: We understand adults have unique and likely more complex needs than children. We can offer help for adults with reading problems.

Introducing The Cognitive Aptitude Assessment Software For Educators

Our Educator Channel contains comprehensive information on the causes and symptoms of reading problems in the classroom, including cases as severe as those with dyslexia. We provide information and resources to help educators meet the needs of problem readers.