Dyslexia is.....
Dyslexia is a specific?
What is learning disability?
The percentage of school age population identified as having a handicapping condition.
What is 13-14%?
Dyslexia is caused by differences in how the brain processes language.
What is neurobiological in origin?
The most common form of dyslexia which includes difficulty connecting sounds to letters.
What is Phonological Dyslexia?
Any learning activity that includes the use of two or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
What is multisensory?
The origin of dyslexia?
What is neurobiological?
The percentage of students identified for special education that are classified as having a learning disability.
What is one half?
Dyslexia often runs in families - heritability is high.
What is genetic factors?
Difficulty with whole-word recognition or memorizing the appearance of words (sight vocabulary). Core deficit: Orthographic memory-the visual memory for how words look.
What is Surface Dyslexia?
The ability to listen and remember sounds, words, and sentences in sequence.
What is auditory memory?
Dyslexia is characterized by?
What is accurate and/or fluent word recognition, poor spelling and decoding abilities.
The percentage of those students identified as having a learning disability that have a primary learning disability in reading and language processing.
What is 85%?
It is a neurodevelopmental disorder, meaning it begins in early development, not from injury or trauma.
What is brain development?
Difficulty quickly retrieving words, letters, numbers, or colors when seeing them along with slower reading speed, even when decoding skills are okay.
What is Rapid Naming Deficit Dyslexia?
The ability to retain the visual image of a two dimensional symbol, especially the sequence of symbols in whole words, or the sequence of words in phrases or sentences.
What is visual memory?
Dyslexia can coexist with strengths in?
What is creativity, reasoning or problem solving?
The percentage of the population as a whole that may have symptoms of dyslexia.
What is 15-20%?
Dyslexia is linked to differences in brain activity, especially in this hemisphere.
What is the left?
A combination of phonological dyslexia (difficulty decoding words) and naming speed deficit (difficulty retrieving words quickly).
What is Double Deficit Dyslexia?
The ability to retain the visual image of a two dimensional symbol, especially the sequence of symbols in whole words, or the sequence of words in phrases or sentences.
What is tactile-kinesthetic memory?
Secondary consequences of dyslexia may include?
What is problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience.
The percentage of incarcerated individuals that have dyslexia?
What is 48%?
Over-activation in this hemisphere of the brain is likely compensatory.
What is the right?
Co-occurring conditions with dyslexia.
What are ADHD, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Speech & language impairments, Executive functioning difficulties, anxiety & depression?
Instruction for a dyslexic individual should be...
What is direct, systematic, sequential, explicit and multisensory.