Hi! Does anyone know of the DTLA subtest Reversed Letters is the Visual Memory for Letters subtest talked about in the Seeing Stars program? The student has to recall, in backwards order, letters spoken to him in a series.
Hi! Does anyone know of the DTLA subtest Reversed Letters is the Visual Memory for Letters subtest talked about in the Seeing Stars program? The student has to recall, in backwards order, letters spoken to him in a series.
Hi Hannah,
I think the subtest you are talking about is in an older version of the DTLA, not the current version, so that is probably why you aren’t finding it. The Lindamood-Bell people have based their new SI test on that old DTLA subtest, and it mainly measures forward spans of letters, not reversed, and mainly letters presented visually (on flash cards) not auditorially. They say that this test measures the mind’s visual “window” for holding on to sequences of letters, and that this skill is related to spelling ability. This is all according to a recent workshop I took at a Lindamood-Bell conference, not word-for-word of course, but my memory of what was said. So if you have an older version of the DTLA, you’ll probably find the subtest you are looking for…
Sharon