This is a broad category that includes problems in decoding and encoding.
What is reading disability?
100
True/false: Written language is the substance of most academic learning.
What is true?
100
The overlapping subtypes of written language disorders are reading, composition, and __________.
What is spelling?
100
Functional assessments of children with dyslexia find that they avoid assignments involving this.
What is reading?
100
Functional assessments of students with written language disorders find that they avoid assignments involving this.
What is writing?
200
This is understanding what has been read.
What is reading comprehension?
200
True/false: IQ is typically below average in students with a reading disability.
What is false? -- IQ is typically above average in students with a reading disability.
200
Co-occurring __________ and __________ are observed especially among older students who have experienced school failure.
What are anxiety and depression?
200
Reading disability often runs in these.
What are families?
200
Writing disability often runs in these.
What are families?
300
Children who have difficulty with reading single words accurately and fluently are described with this term.
What is dyslexia?
300
True/false: Reading disability is one of the least common childhood disorders.
What is false? -- Reading disability is one of the most common childhood disorders.
300
Spelling disabilities have greater __________ than reading disabilities.
What is heritability?
300
Reading disability is most prevalent in this gender.
What is male?
300
Writing disability is less prevalent in this gender.
What is female?
400
Children who can decode fairly easily but do not comprehend what they have read are described with this term.
What is hyperlexia?
400
True/false: Spelling errors that have missing sounds or syllables reflect visual errors.
What is false? -- Spelling errors that have missing sounds or syllables reflect auditory errors.
400
A child with reading disabilities or dyslexia will most likely have difficulty with __________-__________ skills.
What is sound-symbol?
400
Prevalence rates for reading failure are higher for children living in this.
What is poverty?
400
Handwriting and spelling difficulties can lead children to the development of the mind-set that they cannot do this.
What is write?
500
Students with a reading disability may exhibit this condition in which individuals attribute their success to external factors and their failures to their lack of ability.
What is learned helplessness?
500
True/false: Working memory deficits can be seen in written work that is brief, incomplete, lacking in development and organization, and reflective of difficulty managing time.
What is true?
500
Written language disabilities are included in the one formal definition of LD by __________.
What is IDEA?
500
At least half the variance associated with reading disability has been found to be related to these types of factors.
What is environmental?
500
Writing disability is usually apparent by this grade.