Dyslexia Defined
Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor ________.
What is spelling?
Phonemic Awareness (PA) is awareness of individual ______ in spoken words.
What are sounds?
Dyslexia is associated with multiple different genes and multiple different environmental risk factors, so the etiology is ______________.
What is multifactorial?
Functional imaging studies of dyslexia show atypical activation in the left-hemisphere _______ network.
What is language?
The great state of _____ has had dyslexia laws since 1985.
Texas
Dyslexia is NOT due to a lack of ____________.
What is intelligence or motivation or instruction?
One red flag for dyslexia is a child having difficulty learning the names of _______.
What are letters?
Some disorders that are commonly comorbid with dyslexia can often be identified earlier than dyslexia. These disorders include ADHD, Language Impairment and ______ _____ ________ (aka SSD).
What is Speech Sound Disorder?
SES explains only __% of variance in reading outcomes.
What is 10?
The ______ __________is the white matter tract that connects the inferior frontal region with the temporo-parietal region.
What is arcuate fasciculus?
In 2017, Texas House Bill 1886 mandated public schools do universal screening for dyslexia in ____________ and 1st grade.
What is kindergarten?
Dyslexia is NOT a vision problem so the AAP does not endorse or recommend colored lenses, eye -muscle exercises, or ______ therapy.
What is vision?
Using 1.5 standard deviations below average as the cutoff, the prevalence of dyslexia is _%.
What is 7?
Dyslexia is one of the _______-_____ learning disorders and is the most common cause of reading, writing, and spelling difficulties.
What is language-based?
There are at least ___ (how many) different chromosomes implicated as having candidate genes dyslexia.
What is 7?
Platt et. al. reported focal disruptions of ________ _________ in an animal model with reduced expression of the dyslexia candidate gene KIAA0319.
What is neuronal migration?
Parents have the right to request a referral for dyslexia evaluation at any time. It cannot be delayed or denied for screening, MTSS, or _______-to- ___________ (RtI) processes.
What is response to intervention (RTI)?
Making letter reversals means someone has dyslexia. True or False?
False