WELL DETAILED
Dyslexia: - ANSWER An unexpected written language disorder that is neurological in
origin.
Difficulties with:
Accurate/fluent word recognition
Spelling
Decoding abilities
Misread common words, choppy, hesitant
Normal intellect
Core deficit- Phonological Awareness
Dysgraphia- - ANSWER difficulty or poor handwriting
Strephosymbolia- - ANSWER Twisted symbols, 1st term used to describe dyslexia
coined by S. Orton
Phonetics- - ANSWER the study of speech sounds
Phonological Awareness- - ANSWER ability to focus on units of sounds in spoken
language and sentence/words/syllable/phoneme levels
Phonemic Awareness- - ANSWER awareness of speech sounds/phonemes in spoken
words
, Phonics- - ANSWER instruction that connects sounds -> letters
Phonology- - ANSWER rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language
Alphabetic Principle- - ANSWER understanding that spoken sounds are represented in
print by written letters *Cox-Childs*
Phoneme- - ANSWER smallest unit of sound
Fluency- - ANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity
Prosody- - ANSWER rhythmic flow of oral reading
Pragmatics- - ANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior- rules we
communicate by
Syntax- - ANSWER sentence structure ***Grammar
Semantics- - ANSWER word meaning
Grapheme- - ANSWER a letter or cluster of letters that represent a single speech
sound
Orthography- - ANSWER spelling of written language
Orthographic memory- - ANSWER memory of letter patterns and word spellings
Metalinguistics- - ANSWER awareness of language as an entity
Dyslexia: - ANSWER An unexpected written language disorder that is neurological in
origin.
Difficulties with:
Accurate/fluent word recognition
Spelling
Decoding abilities
Misread common words, choppy, hesitant
Normal intellect
Core deficit- Phonological Awareness
Dysgraphia- - ANSWER difficulty or poor handwriting
Strephosymbolia- - ANSWER Twisted symbols, 1st term used to describe dyslexia
coined by S. Orton
Phonetics- - ANSWER the study of speech sounds
Phonological Awareness- - ANSWER ability to focus on units of sounds in spoken
language and sentence/words/syllable/phoneme levels
Phonemic Awareness- - ANSWER awareness of speech sounds/phonemes in spoken
words
, Phonics- - ANSWER instruction that connects sounds -> letters
Phonology- - ANSWER rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language
Alphabetic Principle- - ANSWER understanding that spoken sounds are represented in
print by written letters *Cox-Childs*
Phoneme- - ANSWER smallest unit of sound
Fluency- - ANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity
Prosody- - ANSWER rhythmic flow of oral reading
Pragmatics- - ANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior- rules we
communicate by
Syntax- - ANSWER sentence structure ***Grammar
Semantics- - ANSWER word meaning
Grapheme- - ANSWER a letter or cluster of letters that represent a single speech
sound
Orthography- - ANSWER spelling of written language
Orthographic memory- - ANSWER memory of letter patterns and word spellings
Metalinguistics- - ANSWER awareness of language as an entity
