Reading is a complex skill that requires certain phonological and cognitive skills. This section of the MD4 Reading website is dedicated to helping educators become more familiar with these prerequisite skills, what they mean to reading and how to build these critical skills
The following table shows the skills that MD4 Reading builds and the area of training that accomplishes this.
| PREREQUISITE AND READING SKILLS | ||||||||
| ("Yes" Denotes Therapy Impact) | ||||||||
| CHARACTER | Optic | Tactile | Recall | Array | Audio | Bamboozle | Harmony | Swift |
| AREAS | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Phonological Awareness | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Sound Matching | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Elision | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Blending Words | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Phonological Memory | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Nonword Repetition | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Memory for Digits | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Rapid Naming | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Vergence | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Visual Motor Integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Visual Perception | Yes | |||||||
| Visual Memory (Overall) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Visual Memory (Immediate) | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Visual Memory (Short Term) | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Visual Memory (Long Term) | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Visual Sequential Memory | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Auditory Memory (Overall) | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Auditory Memory (Immediate) | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Auditory Memory (Short Term) | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Auditory Memory (Long Term) | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Auditory Sequential Memory | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Eidetic Processing | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Phonetic Processing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Reading Rate | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Reading Accuracy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Reading Fluency | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Reading Comprehension | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Oral Reading Quotient | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Phonetic Spelling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Word Reading | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Pseudoword Decoding | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
