Test Exam for CALT Course Questions and Answers 2024

Test Exam for CALT Course Questions and Answers 2024 Adolph Kussmaul (1877) - CORRECT ANSWER-"word blindness" Dr. Rudolph Berlin (1887) - CORRECT ANSWER-Came up with the word "Dyslexia' James Hinschelwood (1897) - CORRECT ANSWER-reported cases of "congenital wordblindness", called on schools to screen and treat it Dr. W. Pringle Morgan (1896) - CORRECT ANSWER-Wrote 1st medical journal on word blindness Grace Fernald (1920s) - CORRECT ANSWER-Developed the VAKT Method (Fernald Method) Samuel T. Orton (1925) - CORRECT ANSWER-Neurologist, associated dyslexia as a "language disorder", Coined the term "strephosymbolia" (twisted symbols) Anna Gillingham (1930s) - CORRECT ANSWER-Developed multisensory teaching with Orton, Trained 50 teachers with Sally Childs Aylett Cox - CORRECT ANSWER-Developed Alphabetic Phonics at Scottish Rite Hospital, Worked with Sally Childs Drs. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz - CORRECT ANSWER-Watched the brain read using fMRI, Tracked the prevalence of Dyslexia and whether is was a developmental lag vs. persists over time Chomsky - CORRECT ANSWER-Said children are pre-wired to learn oral language but reading and writing are acquired Isabelle Liberman - CORRECT ANSWER-Phonological Processes NIH Prior to 1980 dyslexia definition - CORRECT ANSWER-Exclusionary- when you couldn't figure out the problem it must be dyslexia Dyslexia Definition - CORRECT ANSWER-Deficit of phonological component of language IQ discrepancy - CORRECT ANSWER-Research shows this to be an invalid model (IQ decided based on a reading test, unfair for children with dyslexia) Specific Learning Disability - CORRECT ANSWER-Disorder with language, may make it difficult to thing, listen, speak, read, write, do math, etc.