updated version(GRADED A+)
Adolf Kusmaul
in 1877, first to use term "word blindness"
Montessori, Clay and Liberman
early researchers of phonemic awareness
Frank Smith
founder of Whole Language concept
James Hinshelwood (1917)
"congenital word blindness" -- ophthalmologist from
Scotland that discovered that the left hemisphere of the
brain affected word storage
Keith Stanovich
His research in the field of reading was fundamental to
the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what
reading is, how it works and what it does for the mind.
The Matthew Effect
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Whole Language - DEAR, evaluation through miscues
Samuel T. Orton (1937)
-Father of modern practice of child language disorders.
-strephosymbolosis (twisted symbols)