DSM-5
Another name for dyslexia
What is specific reading disability?
The first level of the language pyramid.
What is Pragmatic?
The form of dyslexia that is a consequence of a stroke or other insult or injury to the brain in a literate adult.
What is developmental dyslexia?
The type of reading that does not involve the alphabetic principle.
What is the word memorization approach?
The talent a person with pure dyslexia is missing.
What is a talent for speech sounds?
The diagnosis that has been eclipsed by Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
What is Specific Language Impairment?
A person who is not delayed in development of speech and language milestones, has a good vocabulary, scores very well on language tests involving both receptive and expressive language, but who struggles with learning to read.
What is a person with pure dyslexia?
The literal meaning of "dyslexia".
What is "trouble with words"?
The part of the alphabetic principle that represents knowing that words are made up of letters that represent the sounds of speech.
What is alphabetic understanding?
The tell-tale sign of a person who has a weak phonological aptitude.
What is an inability to grasp the exact speech sounds for words that are not common or habitual?
The most important component of what is known as Developmental Coordination Disorder in DSM-5.
What is handwriting?
The level of the language pyramid that is phonology.
What is the fourth?
The area of the brain that is always activated during silent fluid reading.
What is the speech area?
The part of the alphabetic principle that is knowing how to translate the letters in printed words into the sounds they make to read and pronounce the words accurately.
What is phonological recoding?
Because children haven't learned the spelling patterns and made the associations with all the other sensory modalities or between the spelling patterns and the motor ability to write them.
Why don't you see pure dyslexia without dysgraphia in children?
The diagnosis excluded by DSM in favor of "high-functioning autism".
What is Asperger's?
The tip of the iceberg in the iceberg model of language.
What is reading?
Two ways in which the word slow refers to dyslexia.
What are slow acquisition of sight words and the lifelong rate of reading?
The type of reading that can be a sign that a person is not using the alphabetic principle to read.
What is nonfluent reading out loud?
The test that could mistakenly result in a diagnosis of an auditory processing impairment.
What is a phonological speech sound test?
The dual diagnosis allowed by DSM-5.
What are ASD and ADHD?
The meaning of the second level of the language pyramid known as Semantics.
What are meaningful words?
The two characteristics, when taken into account, that may result in a diagnosis of dyslexia.
What are speed of reading and the ability to acquire new words or "crack the code"?
The essential element of successful remedial reading programs in addition to being direct, systematic and being based on the alphabetic principle.
What are is phonics?
The three kinds of auditory processing systems on the right side of the brain.
What are musical pitch, environmental sounds/noise perception, and emotional prosody (discriminating the emotional state or intentional attitude of a person speaking to us)?