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Motor movements that are involved in the production of speech sounds.
Articulatory
Ability to understand meanings of words and word combination.
Semantic
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Ability to arrange words in sentences.
Syntactic
The ability to perceive and manipulate aspects of a writing system and the
visual aspects of reading and spelling, such as letter, letter patterns, and words.
Orthographic
The understanding and use of the alphabetic principle, that there is a predictable
relationship between phonemes (the sounds in spoken language) and graphemes (the letters that
represent those sounds) in written language and that this information is used to decode and spell
words.
Phonics
A specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties
with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. T
Dyslexia
The most complex of phonological awareness skills. It is the ability to
notice, think about, and work with the individual phonemes (sounds) in spoken words. The ability to
recognize that a spoken word consists of a sequence of individual sounds and the ability to manipulate
individual sounds.
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic and phonological awareness difficulties.
Phonological Sensitivity
The study of how the aspects of language structure are related to the ways
words are formed from prefixes, roots, and suffixes, and how words are related to each other to
understand meanings of words and word combination.
Morphology
A set of individually administered standardized procedures designed to assess basic skills in reading, mathematics, writing, and spelling.
Curriculum-Based Measures
Use of two or more sensory pathways (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and tactile).
Multisensory and Multimodal Language-learning Techniques
Ability to speak and understand language. It encompasses verbal and
nonverbal communication skills and how an individual uses language. Expressive language skills include
facial expressions, gestures, intentionality, vocabulary, semantics (word/sentence meaning),
morphology, and syntax
Expressive Language
Ability to understand words and language. Involves attention, listening,
and processing the message to gain information. Areas of receptive language skills include attention,
receptive vocabulary, following directions, and understanding questions.
Receptive Language
Encompasses a broad spectrum of processes that comprise a range of understandings related to large chunks of speech (e.g., words within sentences, syllables within words), as well as phonemes (sounds) within words.
Phonological Awareness