Dyslexia Basics
Types of Dyslexia
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A language-based learning disability, that refers to a cluster of symptoms which result in people having difficulties with specific language skills.
What is dyslexia.
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A term that refers to an impairment of the ability to solve mathematical problems, usually resulting from brain dysfunction.
What is Dyscalculia.
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A person can grow out of dyslexia.
False, a person will always have dyslexia but it might not be as bad as it was.
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What area is someone with dyslexia delayed in

Speech

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Is still not completely known, but is anatomical and the brain imagery studies show differences in the way the brain of a dyslexic person developes and functions.
What is the cause of dyslexia.
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A term that refers to an inability to hold or control a pencil so that the correct markings can be made on paper?
What is Dysgraphia.
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The direct cause of dyslexia is unknown.
True. They don't know they exact cause of dyslexia.
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Association Cortex - Broca's Area - Auditory Cortex - Wernicke's Area - Association Cortex - Somatosensory Cortex - Motor Cortex - Frontal Lobe - Temporal Lobe - Occipital Lobe - Parietal Lobe

What is parts of the brain associated with reading?

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Dyslexia affects what percentage of school age children?

2%-8%

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A term that refers to the learning disability term sensor-motor integration and is a widely pervasive motor condition characterized by impairment or immaturity of the organization of movement, with associated problems of language, perception and thought?
What is Dyspraxia.
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All children with dyslexia see letters and symbols up side down or inversely.
False. There are several different types of dyslexia and not everybody is the same.
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A strategy to improve fluency for dyslexia in which a student reads the same passage repeatedly until a desired level of fluency is achieved

What is Repeated Oral Reading?

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Children with dyslexia usually have trouble with what?

Reading, spelling, writing and sometimes numbers

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A form of dyslexia that involves difficulty with sounds of letters or groups of letters. When this form of dyslexia is present, the sounds are perceived as jumbled or not heard correctly.
What is Phonological (auditory) Dyslexia.
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Poor schooling can cause dyslexia

False, dyslexia cannot come from poor schooling

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A strategy to improve fluency in dyslelxia where a capable reader and a struggling reader read in unison. When the struggling reader feels ready, they can try reading alone out loud to the capable reader. The capable reader will help the struggling reader with unknown words.

What is paired reading?

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- Learning to speak - Learning letters and their sounds - Organizing written and spoken language - Memorizing number facts - Reading quickly enough to comprehend - Persisting with and comprehending longer reading assignments - Spelling - Learning a foreign language - Correctly doing math operations
What are problems experienced by dyslexics?
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A form of dyslexia that is the result of immature development of not only the eyes, but the whole process that gets information from the eyes to the brain.
What is Visual Dyslexia.
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Students often struggle for years prior to being identified as having learning disabilities.
True. Most people go on struggling without it being diagnosed that there is a problem.
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A stratgy to help improve fluncy for students with dyslexia where short phrases are written on sentence strips and the students will repeat the phrase.

What is fluency phrase?

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