Dyslexia Defined
Dyslexia was known as w_____ b________ until the 1960s.
What is word blindness?
The great state of _____ just passed HB731, requiring all students in K-5 to be screened for dyslexia in the fall of every school year.
What is Idaho?
It is possible that someone may have dyslexia if they have trouble with _______, writing, and spelling.
What is reading?
Dyslexia is due to a lack of intelligence and motivation.
What is False?
The _____ assessment is the LPOSD screener for students in kindergarten through grade 3.
What is the Idaho Reading Indicator or IRI?
Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor ________.
What is spelling?
In 2021, Idaho Bill 731 mandated public schools to provide __________ assessments to students who demonstrate characteristics of dyslexia as determined by the dyslexia screener.
What is diagnostic?
Students who experience dyslexia may not read with appropriate rate, accuracy, and prosody to support comprehension. This means they struggle with reading _________.
What is fluency?
Dyslexia is not a vision problem and there is no need to see an eye doctor/optometrist.
What is True?
The dyslexia screener used to evaluate vocabulary and comprehension is the _____ assessment.
What is Measure of Academic Process or MAP?
One red flag for dyslexia is a kindergarten child having difficulty learning the names of _______.
What are letters?
Idaho HB 731 requires ALL instructional staff members to know and recognize the characteristics of ______________.
What is dyslexia?
Many students who experience dyslexia have a core-deficit in the ______________ processor of the brain, or the ability to hear and manipulate sounds.
What is phonological?
If a student scores poorly on a test, it means that they have dyslexia.
What is False?
The dyslexia screener that evaluates how accurate or automatic word reading is called _______
What is ORF (Oral Reading Fluency)?
Students with dyslexia can learn to read but their instruction must be systematic, _____ , and multi-sensory.
What is explicit?
Which federal law(s) pertains to individuals with dyslexia? (2)
What is IDEA or Section 504?
You suspect a child in fourth grade at LPOSD has dyslexia. Her reading is poor and you cannot decipher her spelling. She has been provided a spelling inventory test and an ORF (Oral Reading Fluency test). Her scores are in the red, or intensive need. What assessment should you administer next?
What is a phonics (phonics inventory, CORE phonics) test?
Students with dyslexia may need extended time to complete academic tasks.
What is true?
If you forget which assessments LPOSD utilizes for dyslexia screening and diagnostic options, where can you learn more?
What is the LPOSD Structured Literacy webpage?