What is Dyslexia?
Causes of Dyslexia
Early Signs of Dyslexia
Common Myths About Dyslexia
Other Information About Dyslexia
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A specific learning disability in reading that is neurological in origin
What is dyslexia?
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True or False: The exact causes of dyslexia are not completely clear.
What is true?
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A learning disorder in which symbols and especially phrases, words, or letters appear to be reversed or transposed in reading
What is strephosymbolia?
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This has not yet been found for dyslexia.
What is a cure?
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Dyslexia is categorized by these two things
What are accurate and/or fluent word recognition and poor spelling and decoding abilities?
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An inability to distinguish or separate the sounds in spoken words
What is dyslexia?
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Associated with the production of language or language output
What is Broca's Area?
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Coined the term "strephosymbolia"
What is Dr. Samuel Orton?
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This is not a cause of dyslexia.
What is ADHD?
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True or False: A child with dyslexia has a low aptitude for learning.
What is false?
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Dyslexia affects about ____ to ____ percent of school age children.
What is 2 to 8 percent?
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Associated with the processing of words that we hear being spoken or language inputs
What is Wernicke's Area?
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A child with dyslexia might have problems performing these types of motor skills
What is hopping, skipping, throwing, and catching?
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A skill most people believe dyslexics cannot do
What is reading?
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Another name for strephosmbolia
What is word blindness?
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Some people with dyslexia have a different anatomical brain ___________.
What is structure?
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Relationship between speech sound and written symbol
What is grapheme-phoneme correspondence?
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True or False: Jumbling sounds or words in speech and delayed speech development are early signs of dyslexia.
What is true?
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True or False: Poverty and poor schooling cause dyslexia.
What is false?
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Ball and stick letters
What are p, q, d, and g?
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Children with dyslexia often have problems in the following areas: 1. 2. 3. 4.
What is reading, spelling, writing, and sometimes numbers?
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The two parts of the brain associated with reading
What are Broca's Area and Wernicke's Area?
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Diagnosis of dyslexia begins at this age
What is age six?
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Most people think children with dyslexia see letters and symbols in this way
What is up side down or inversely?
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5% of students with dyslexia have this
What is strephosymbolia?
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