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(reading) words she made 15 false positive responses, one false negative in
listening modality and seven for reading tasks. However, she did demonstrate
learning by matching 11 names to target pictures in both listening and reading
modalities. She also matched the correct number of syllables to 12 words and
matched the initial syllables of 13 new words with their final syllable. This
indicated that C7 did learn some of the new words although she was unable to
demonstrate this learning either in spoken or in written form.
5.12.2.2 Delayed recall
C7 did not recall any of the new words for this assessment despite receiving 20
syllable cues. She did identify all 20 words in the listening and reading
recognition tasks, however as with the immediate recall she made 18 false
positive responses and two false negative for the listening tasks and 19 false
positives and one false negative for the reading component. C7 did however,
match three words (listening) and six written words (reading) to target pictures.
She also matched 18 words with the correct syllable count and was able to
match initial syllables for seven words to their final syllable.
5.12.2.3 Summary of new learning
C7 recalled 48% of information for immediate recall assessments. However, as
discussed (see section 5.12.2.1) she gave some false positive and negative
responses for the recognition tasks possibly suggesting that this score may
overestimate her true learning abilities. C7 recalled 35% of information for the
delayed recall assessments suggesting she retained 71% of information learned
from original training sessions. Again however, this may be an overestimation of
her true retention in long-term memory. As predicted C7 had great difficulty
demonstrating her learning either in spoken or written form.
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