Neuroscience
Signs
Mythes
Vocabulary
People
100
The part of the brain that is responsible for logical thinking, information processing, language, sequencing, and analytical thinking.
What is the left hemisphere?
100
Symptoms of Dyslexia are variable depending on these.
What are surroundings?
100
This specific learning disablilty may be a cause of dyslexia.
What is ADHD?
100
Once called "word blindness" this disorder associated with dyslexia is the reverse or transported words or phrases.
What is strephosymbolia?
100
This man coined the term strephosymbolia.
Who is Samuel Orton?
200
The area of the brain that is associated with the production of language?
What is Broca's area?
200
A diagnosis is difficult until this age in which the child typically begins to read.
What is age 6?
200
People with dyslexia are often thought to have this lifestyle path.
What is failure?
200
This is a word meaning the specific symbol.
What is grapheme?
200
This french neurosurgeon discovered the left inferior area of the frontal cortex at its role in the process of language.
Who is Paul Broca?
300
The area of the brain that is associated with the processing of words that we hear being spoken, or language inputs.
What is Wernicke's area?
300
This symptom may take many forms such as uncertainy of left and right or confusion of up and down and top to bottom.
What is directional confusion?
300
All children with dyslexia see letters or words in this way.
What is upside down or backwards?
300
The word meaning the speech sound.
What is phoneme?
300
The German neurologist who located the posterior section of the left temporal lobe that is responsible for processing words to hear.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
400
The large bundle of nerve fibers that connect Broca's and Wernicke's area.
What is the arcuate?
400
An example of this sign may be putting syllables in the wrong order.
What is sequence difficulties?
400
A person with this disability as a child can eventually do this.
What is growing out of?
400
A disorder related with dyslexia dealing with difficulty in math.
What is dyscalculia?
400
These men suggested that perceptual and conceptual deficits need to be remediated for enhanced learning.
Who are Strauss and Lehtinen?
500
The neural loop of the brain involved in the understanding and processing of language, also known as the fissure of Sylvius.
What is lateral sulcus?
500
The rate of this young childhood major milestone may have an be a sign of dyslexia.
What is late talking?
500
With time this can happen to a person with dyslexia.
What is being cured?
500
This disorder related to dyslexia dealing with hand writing.
What is dysgraphia?
500
This man coined the term learning disability and started the Learning Disabilities Association.
Who is Samuel Kirk?
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