ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the examples of low ability in the three processes such as rapid automatized naming (RAN), working memory and processing speed, and talks about what can be done in order to compensate. RAN measurement gives important information about how efficiently children are processing the sounds of their language and how well they would respond to small group intervention, should their reading skills be lagging. A student with phonological deficits and low RAN would progress more slowly and would be a more needful candidate for one-to-one intervention than a student with phonological deficits but average RAN. Memory has been a subject of fascination to mankind throughout the ages. Working memory can only hold information for brief periods of time, so slow processors will quickly run out of time before the working memory has had a chance to use incoming information properly.
