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Periodic Assessment that measures progress in response to specific instruction
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Progress Monitoring

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Assessment that provides a detailed analysis of a student's strengths and weaknesses Diagnostic
Measure
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Data that provide information about knowledge to be applied to short-term goals
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Formative Data

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Core components are goal setting, planning, organization of behaviors over time, flexibility,
attention and memory systems, and self-regulation
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Executive Function

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Federal legislation that requires special education and related services for qualified students with
disabilities
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IDEA




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Federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities
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ADA

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Dividend
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A total amount that is to be divided by another number

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Divisor
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The number that a total number is divided by

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coined the phrase "word blindness" 1877
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Adolf Kussmaul

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coined the term "dyslexia" to describe word blindness 1887
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Rudolph Berlin

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Ophthalmologist at the Glasgow Eye Infirmiry; gave detailed description of acquired "word
blindness" from a stroke victim; encouraged schools to screen for children with word blindness
and provide them appropriate teaching techniques. 1895/1904 Dr. James Hinshelwood
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First description of congenital word blindness 1896
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,Dr. Pringle Morgan

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developed VAKT; 1920s
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Grace Fernald

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coined the term "strephosymbolia"/twisted symbols; cerebral dominance theory; adopted VAKT
from Fernald; 1925
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Dr. Samuel T. Orton

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Psychologist and educator in NY; worked with Orton; Developed non-traditional approach to
teaching written language skills; Trained 50 teachers w/Sally Childs. 1930-1960
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Anna Gillingham

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Worked with Sally Childs; Wrote Alphabetic Phonics Curriculum at Scottish Rite Hospital in
Dallas, 1960
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Aylette Cox

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Kinesthetic activities to establish Right to Left and Visual-Auditory Association with
grapheme/phoneme 1960
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Bessie Stilman

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Connecticut Longitudinal Study (K-High school) on Dyslexia. Looked at good & poor readers,
prevalence of dyslexic and if dyslexia was a developmental lag or persistent over time?
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, 1983 Sally & Bennett Shaywitz

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Harvard Professor Emeritus; Wrote "Learning to Read; 1996 ODS ST Orton Award; wrote many
books on reading development & instructional methods. 1983
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Jeanne S. Chall

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Author of Phonology & The Problems of Learning to Read and Write. Phonological Awareness:
developed hierarchy 1. words in sentence 2. syllables in words 1985
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Isabelle Liberman

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Dyslexia difficulty from poor letter-sound relationship; not visual-spatial. 1987
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Vellutin

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Required proposals for centers to investigate LD (U of CO, Johns Hopkins U, Yale) 1987
NICHD
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Importance of Phonological Awareness. Two Components of Reading: Decoding and
Comprehension; Weakness in phonological awareness interferes with decoding...1990s Bradley
& Bryant
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Phrenology; late 18th Century
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