Thursday 21 July 2016

Rapid Automatized Naming and Rapid Alternating Stimulus Tests (RAN/RAS)


Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) has been proven to be an effective and enjoyable activity to do with young children. When doing RAN assessments, color splotches, familiar objects in the child’s environment, basic shapes, numbers, and letters are generally used. 



Reading has been compared to rocket science and to conducting a symphony, yet we expect children to have mastered this deeply sophisticated set of skills by the age of seven. 

Literacy has become so deep-rooted in our culture that we often take for granted the complex cognitive abilities that are required to read effortlessly in so many contexts, from sharing a Dr. Seuss story with a child to enjoying a favorite novel via an e-reader on a busy train. 

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about reading is that children develop reading skills seemingly in spite of nature. 

Reading began so recently in the evolutionary history of our species that we have no innate biological processes devoted specifically to reading. 

Fluent reading depends on a complex set of cognitive processes that must work together in perfect concert. Rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks provide insight into this system, acting as a microcosm of the processes involved in reading.

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