The International Dyslexia Association was originally named after this key figure in the study of reading disabilities.
Who is Samuel Orton?
100
Dyslexia involves understanding the graphemes and these.
What is phonemes?
100
This subtype of dyscalculia is where students have difficulty retrieving arithmetic facts.
What is Semantic Memory?
100
This vice president of the United States and governor of New York, suffered from severe dyslexia.
Who is Nelson Rockefeller?
100
This scale commonly unsted today has become a basis to determine levels of intelligence.
What is Binet-Simon Scale?
200
During this period the term "learning disabilities" was introduced and parents and professionals founded organizations for these disabilities.
What is the Emergent Period?
200
Thomas Gunning says students used this type of activity in order to look for "pronounceable word parts".
What is Chunking?
200
This classification of dyscalculia is definded as an inability to operate with symbols or numbers.
What is Intermediate Dyscalculia?
200
This Prime Minister of the United Kingdom suffered from a stuttering problem and had a distaste for math.
Whwo is Winston Churchill?
200
A student's score needs to be atleast this many standard deviations higher than his or her scores on an achievement test to be described as having a learning disability.
What is two standard deviations?
300
Most people credit this man as the originator of the term learning disabilities.
Who is Samuel Kirk?
300
This aspect of dyslexia is less studied, however part of it is the art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
What is Orthography?
300
This type of dyscalculia shows people who had difficulty translating abstract mathematical knowledge into real-world action or procedures.
What is Practognostic Dyscalculia?
300
This motion picture producer was once considered "slow" and was fired from a newspaper job for not being creative enough.
Who is Walt Disney?
300
RTI stands for this.
What is Response to Intervention?
400
During 1975-1985, this period, was where much of the applied research was done.
What is the Solidification Period?
400
When instructing reading to a dyslexic individual these are the two major types of phonics instruction.
What are analytic and synthetic phonics?
400
Up-down, front-back, in-out...this specifies how some object is located in space in relation to some reference object.
What is Spatial Relation?
400
Aaaeeeyyy.... this successful actor, director and producer suffered from dyslexia as a child.
Who is Henry Winkler, The Fonz?
400
Under the law Individuals with Disablities Education Act, LRE stands for this.
What is Least Restrictive Enviroment?
500
This Greek term is associated to word-blindness.
What is strephosymbolia?
500
The multi-sensory acronym VAKT stands for this.
What is visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile?
500
One with this type of dyscalculia may have difficulty reading symbols such as numerals, and cannoth under them when they occur in number sentences or equations.
What is Lexical Dyscalculia?
500
He also had troubles in school because of dyslexia. That didn't stop him from being CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Let's go bucs!
Who is Kevin McClatchy?
500
Every child receiving special education services much have one of these, with measurable goals and specially designed instruction and related services included.