CALT Exam Study Set 2025 With Correct Answers.

CALT Exam Study Set 2025 With Correct
Answers




Dr. Samuel T. Orton - correct answer a neuropathologist
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coined the term "strephosymbolia" which replaced congenital word blindness
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treatment must be highly structured educations s s s s




Anna Gillingham - correct answer Educational psychologist
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A diagnostician who worked with Dr. Orton.
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Together they developed procedures for remediation or reading, spelling, and writing.
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Mary Ann Wolf - correct answer Double-deficit hypothesis-deficiency in both phoneme awareness and
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Arthur Benton - correct answer He believed that written language is a "cultural product and not a biological
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characteristic."



Dr. Sally and Bennett Shawitz - correct answer Used MRI to identify the parts of the brain used in reading (by
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Kenneth Goodman - correct answer *Introduced whole language in U.S. schools
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*author of "What's Whole About Whole Language"
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,*He was not a GOODman because whole language was not good for our schools.
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Paula Tallal - correct answer Developed a program to increase processing speed called Fast forWord
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Plasticity of the brain s s s




Louisa Moats - correct answer Site director of NICHD Early Interventions Project in Washington, D.C.
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Notable Writings: LETRS, Teaching IS Rocket Science
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Brought phonics to CA s s s




Aylett Cox - correct answer Developed Alphabetic Phonics curriculum with Dr. Lucius Waites and staff of Texas
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Reid Lyon - correct answer Neuropsychologist in charge of NIH research
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Confirmed importance of phonological awareness s s s s




Dr. Macdonald Critchley - correct answer National Federation of Neurology
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Established the term "developmental dyslexia" s s s s




Dr. Barbara Bateman - correct answer Study that discovered a person without learning difficulties requires 5-
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15 repetitions for retention; those with learning difficulties may require 500-1500.
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Dr. Norman Geschwind - correct answer Linked male left-handness and autoimmune disease to dyslexia
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Adolph Kussmaul - correct answer Coined word "word blindness" to an isolated condition affecting the ability
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to recognize and read text
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Bruce Pennington - correct answer Twin study in Boulder, Colorado and found that dyslexia is both familial and
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heritable. Linked dyslexia to 6th and 15th chromosome s s s s s s s

, James Hinshelwood - correct answer "Congenital word blindness"
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Ophthalmologist from Scotland s s




Thought left hemisphere was affected in reading difficulties
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Dr. Albert Galaburda - correct answer Neuroanatomical anomalies in brains with developmental dyslexia
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Confirmed dyslexia is an organic disorder s s s s s




Confirmed in dyslexic brain that both sides of brain are equal s s s s s s s s s s




Abnormal migration of neural cells s s s s




Isabella Liberman - correct answer Studying phonological processing deficits affecting the ability to make use
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of letter-sound associations as an effect of rapid retrieval problems
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Marilyn Jager Adams - correct answer Known for work in phonological awareness
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author of many children's books s s s s




Dr. Johann Schmidtt - correct answer Earliest recorded case of word blindness describing a 65 yr. old man who
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lost ability to read following a stroke - a condition termed acquired alexia
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Rudolph Berlin - correct answer German physician
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First person to use word "dyslexia" to describe loss of ability to read due to brain injury
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Dr. W. Pringle Morgan - correct answer England
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Captured the basic elements underlying what we refer to today as developmental dyslexia
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Wrote about congenital word blindness to describe school children unable to learn to read but were otherwise
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bright and of average intelligence
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Bessie Stillman - correct answer Colleague of Gillingham who worked with Orton to develop teaching
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approach. They together wrote the Gillingham manuals. s s s s s s