History of Dyslexia
Understanding SLD
Which Teaching Strategy?
Which Learning Disability?
Areas of Difficulty for Children with SLD
100
Dyslexia is a medical term that originated on this continent.
Where is Europe?
100
When determining if a student has SLD in Pennsylvania, school districts have a choice between using an analysis of strengths and weaknesses, which is the difference between intellectual ability and achievement, or this, which is based on a child’s response to research-based intervention.
What is Response to Intervention (RIT)?
100
This multi-sensory reading instruction teaches every phoneme one at a time to groups of children by appealing to the multiple intelligences.
What is the Orton Gillingham Method?
100
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was diagnosed with this learning disability that affects an individual’s language and reading ability.
What is dyslexia?
100
Individuals who not only have trouble distinguishing phonemes, but also read slowly on the rapid naming task are said to have this.
What is a double deficit?
200
In the 1870s, Adolf Kussamaul used the term "word blindness". Another term for "word blindness" is this.
What is Strephosymbolia?
200
This is the area of oral language that relates to the ability to think about the sounds in a word.
What is phonological awareness?
200
Mr. Johnson sits close to Katherine and they read a passage together out loud. At first Mr. Johnson reads a little faster than Katherine. As they read, she works on keeping up with Mr. Johnson and follows as he points at the words on the page. They repeatedly read the same passage until Katherine is comfortable with it. Mr. Johnson and Katherine are using this method.
What is Neurological Impress Method (N.I.M.)?
200
This type of dyslexia affects auditory perception because the connection between the ears and the brain do not function correctly.
What is Dysphonetic Dyslexia?
200
When reading a passage, Alex has difficulty reading with a rhythm. At times, he has difficulty correctly phrasing a sentence which results in him not understanding the meaning of the sentence. Alex is struggling with this.
What is fluency?
300
The term dyslexia was first used by this German physician.
Who is Rudolf Berlin?
300
This part of the brain, located on left inferior area of the frontal lobe, is associated with the production of language.
What is Broca's area?
300
Unlike analytic phonics where teaching focuses on the letter and sound patterns in words, synthetic phonics does this.
What is breaks down words into phonemes and looks at the way the sounds are blended in the words?
300
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in the understanding of language and manifests itself in the inability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations is the federal definition for this disorder.
What is Specific Learning Disability?
300
Abigail has been diagnosed with dyslexia. She has difficulty reading letters, numbers, and symbols and struggles with naming them quickly. What is the name of this task that Abigail performs slowly?
What is a rapid-naming task?
400
This German neurologist identified an area in the posterior section of the left temporal lobe that is responsible for processing words we hear.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
400
Exposure to certain toxins may cause learning disabilities in children by affecting their brain development. This toxin may be found in paint, water, and soil.
What is lead?
400
Mrs. Smith is using the reciprocal teaching method with her students. Through dialogue, she has her students highlight important information in a reading. The students followed up by creating questions about the text. The students worked together to clarify the things that were not understood in the reading. They will follow up with this last step of the reciprocal teaching method.
What is the students will predict what the author will write about in the next text?
400
Lindsey dreads writing while at school. She has difficulty holding a pencil and has to concentrate just to write letters. It can even be painful for her to write. Lindsey’s teacher finds her handwriting hard to read. Lindsey may have this learning disability.
What is Dysgraphia?
400
Josh has difficulty staying focused on tasks at school. He struggles with remembering facts and he can not recall information quickly. Josh wishes he could recall things as quickly and effortlessly as his classmates. He is struggling with this term which is something many children with specific learning disabilities struggle with.
What is automaticity?
500
This man was the first to use the term "word blindness". He felt that an IQ score may not always show a child's true intelligence.
Who is Samuel Orton?
500
With dyslexia, individuals cannot understand the relationship between ______ that are the letters of the alphabet and _______ that are the sounds we assign to letters.
What are graphemes and phonemes?
500
Charlie has been diagnosed with dyscalculia. His teacher is using the CRA Sequence to teach a new math concept. The teacher began with this first step. He continued by using visuals on the white board and by using the SmartBoard. Finally the teacher used the mathematical formulas that went along with the math concept. What did the teacher do on the first step?
What is use concrete examples such as manipulatives?
500
Brian is in 2nd grade and struggles in math. From an early age, he has had difficulty with number sense, meaning he has difficulty thinking about quantities. He struggles with understanding mathematical ideas and has trouble remembering these ideas after learning them. Brian has difficulty with ordering numbers from smallest to largest. Brian is displaying symptoms of this learning disability.
What is Dyscalculia?
500
Audrey has been diagnosed with dyscalculia. She has difficulty keeping her place on worksheets and often loses her place. Audrey will often miss points on tests because she doesn’t finish problems on a page or skips over them. Audrey is having trouble with this.
What is figure-ground?
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