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20 Cards in this Set
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Dyslexia
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Difficulty learning to read, often due to a neurological deficit
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Extrinsic causes
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Factors in the environment of the child that interfere with development.
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Intrinsic causes
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Factors within the child such as neurological damage.
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Phonemic segmentation
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The act of breaking down a word into sounds.
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Phoneme synthesis
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The act of combining sounds presented in isolation into a single word.
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Content bias
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The effect of a dialectal or cultural difference on the responses of an individual to a test item.
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Graduated prompting
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In diagnostic therapy, the co-occurrence of assessment and treatment, with the child being tested for
stimulability on a language construct. |
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Stimulability
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The degree to which a child can imitate a language construct presented by the clinician.The less
intervention is needed, the more the child is stimulable. |
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Metacognitive skills
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Those skills that enable a child to solve problems, from hypotheses, analyze his or her thoughts, and make a decision.
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hyperlexia
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Recognizing and reading words exceeding one's cognitive and language levels, yet having no comprehension of what is said or read.
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Perceptual-cognitive skills
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The integration of thinking and organizing sensory input.
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Phoneme-grapheme correspondence
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The association of a printed letter with the sound it makes.
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Preoperational skills
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Skills needed to emerge into conceptual thinking leading into prelogical thought.
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Scripts
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Scenarios designed to facilitate language development.
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Subcorticol pathways
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Interconnections in the brain that lie below the cerebral cortex.
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Fissure
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A deep furow in the brain; also known as a sulcus.
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
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An MRI of the brain done while the patient preforms specific tasks so the radioogist can visualize the mechanisms of the brain activated with specific tasks.
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Phonemic awareness
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Recognition of the fact that words are made up of sounds, and understanding the difference betwen phonemes.
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Alphabetic principle
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The dictum governing how specific sounds in a language are represented by specific spelling patterns.
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Multimodality approach
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An approach to therapy that incorporates information from all sensory systems to teach a conceptual element.
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