CALT Exam-people & dates(100%
Correct)
Adolf Kussmaul - ANSWERSCoined The phrase word blindness in 1877
Rudolph Berlin - ANSWERSCoined the term dyslexia to describe word blindness in
1887
Dr. Samuel T Orton - ANSWERSCoined term strephosymbolia/twisted symbols;
cerebral dominance theory; adopted VAKT frim Fernald 1925
Sally & Bennett Shaywitz - ANSWERSConnecticut longitudinal study looked at good
and poor readers prevalence of dyslexic and if dyslexia was a developmental lag or
persistent overtime 1983
Grace Fernald - ANSWERSDeveloped VAKT the 1920s
Louisa C. Moats - ANSWERSSpelling development disability and instruction works with
sound similar relationships as building blocks within words from the simplest to the most
complex
Margaret Rawson - ANSWERSPioneer in the field of dyslexia one of many important
contributions is "the many faces of dyslexia"
Bonita Blachman - ANSWERSResearch on phonology and reading at Syracuse
University
Barbara Foorman - ANSWERSResearcg on reading and phonolgy at U of Houston
Anna Gillingham - ANSWERSPsychologist and educator in New York worked with
Orton developed nontraditional approach to teaching written language skills trained 50
teachers with Sally child's 1930 through 1960
Richard Masland - ANSWERSPreschool prevention and reading failure he was past
president of the world Federation of neurology
Richard Olsen - ANSWERSReading rate
Sally & Bennett Shaywitz - ANSWERSWorked at the Yale Center for the study of
learning and attention used MRI to study neurobiology of dyslexia identified parts of
brain used in reading found that phonological processing is the root of the disorder
Correct)
Adolf Kussmaul - ANSWERSCoined The phrase word blindness in 1877
Rudolph Berlin - ANSWERSCoined the term dyslexia to describe word blindness in
1887
Dr. Samuel T Orton - ANSWERSCoined term strephosymbolia/twisted symbols;
cerebral dominance theory; adopted VAKT frim Fernald 1925
Sally & Bennett Shaywitz - ANSWERSConnecticut longitudinal study looked at good
and poor readers prevalence of dyslexic and if dyslexia was a developmental lag or
persistent overtime 1983
Grace Fernald - ANSWERSDeveloped VAKT the 1920s
Louisa C. Moats - ANSWERSSpelling development disability and instruction works with
sound similar relationships as building blocks within words from the simplest to the most
complex
Margaret Rawson - ANSWERSPioneer in the field of dyslexia one of many important
contributions is "the many faces of dyslexia"
Bonita Blachman - ANSWERSResearch on phonology and reading at Syracuse
University
Barbara Foorman - ANSWERSResearcg on reading and phonolgy at U of Houston
Anna Gillingham - ANSWERSPsychologist and educator in New York worked with
Orton developed nontraditional approach to teaching written language skills trained 50
teachers with Sally child's 1930 through 1960
Richard Masland - ANSWERSPreschool prevention and reading failure he was past
president of the world Federation of neurology
Richard Olsen - ANSWERSReading rate
Sally & Bennett Shaywitz - ANSWERSWorked at the Yale Center for the study of
learning and attention used MRI to study neurobiology of dyslexia identified parts of
brain used in reading found that phonological processing is the root of the disorder
