Brain
Discoveries
Facts
Nature
Treatments
100
The system in the brain that works for the novice reader.
What is the parietal-temporal subsystem?
100
The "express" reading area of the brain
What is the back left temporal lobe?
100
Another word for writing
What is encoding?
100
True or False? A Child will eventually grow out of dyslexia.
What is false?
100
Type of phonics where you break each word down into individual phonemes.
What is synthetic phonics?
200
The inability to decode a word into the sounds that make it up.
What is a phonological deficit?
200
The front of the brain that takes over the role of reading in older dyslexic children to make up for the under-activation of the back region of the brain normally active in fluent readers.
What is Broca's area?
200
Another word for reading.
What is decoding?
200
True or false? Poverty or poor instruction can cause dyslexia.
What is false?
200
The VAKT technique of multi sensory teaching
What is visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile way of teaching?
300
People with dyslexia exhibit less activity in this region of the brain when they read.
What is the occipital temporal lobe?
300
The level of intelligence that people with dyslexia normally have.
What is average to above average?
300
One far less studied aspect of dyslexia related to spelling and the structure of the printed word.
What is orthographic deficit?
300
Etiology - Dyslexia is believed to be...
What is genetic?
300
N.I.M stands for
What is the Neurological Impress Method?
400
The part of the brain responsible for understanding speech
What is Wernicke's Area?
400
The method used to scan the brain for activity in different regions.
What is functional magnetic resonance imaging?
400
Dyslexia affects boys and girls in this proportion.
What is equally?
400
Characteristics of dyslexia.
What is accurate or fluent word recognition, poor spelling and decoding abilities?
400
The Orton Gillingham Method of teaching is an example of
What is multi-sensory teaching?
500
The part of the brain responsible for articulation and word analysis?
What is Broca's Area?
500
The group of people that showed activity in both the left and right hemisphere of the brain while reading.
Who are women?
500
The inability to retrieve rapidly the spoken referent for visual stimuli.
What is naming speed deficit?
500
The theory that dyslexic students have a naming speed deficit and trouble distinguishing phonemes.
What is the double deficit hypothesis?
500
The best treatment for a child with phonemic deficit?
What is phonics?