ALTA CALP Review - Set #1
Adolf Kusmaul - ANS-1877- first to use the term "word blindness"
Alvin and Isabel Liberman - ANS-Alphabetic principle and its relationship to phonemic
awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Anna Gillingham - ANS-1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Orton at
Columbia University, developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills;
trained one teacher at a time; began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 teachers
Dr. Rudolf Berlin - ANS-1887 - ophthalmologist who introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan - ANS-1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" i
children
Frank Smith - ANS-Whole language - founder of whole language concept
IDEA - ANS-Individuals with Disabilities Act
IEP - ANS-Individualized Education Plan
James Hinshelwood - ANS-1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness
called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those
that were identified with congenital word blindness
Joe Torgesen - ANS-Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of
reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness
and reading
Keith Stanovich - ANS-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
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman - ANS-Whole Language - DEAR, evaluation through miscues
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504 - ANS-Federal law
Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$
Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace
Does not provide funding but can without federal funding
Public schools receive federal funding so law applies
Samuel T. Orton - ANS-1925 - Coined the term strephosymbolis which means twisted symbols;
pathologist, neurologist and psychiatrist in the US, studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany, work
influenced by James Hinshelwood
SBOE - ANS-State Board of Education
Texas Administrataive Code 74.28 - ANS-State Board of Education Rule
District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district.
District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia.
SBOE does not recommend programs.
SBOE does provide guidelines and descriptors.
Districts must notify parents prior to testing rights under 504.
Instruction must be at a student's campus.
Early identification must be available.
Adolf Kusmaul - ANS-1877- first to use the term "word blindness"
Alvin and Isabel Liberman - ANS-Alphabetic principle and its relationship to phonemic
awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Anna Gillingham - ANS-1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Orton at
Columbia University, developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills;
trained one teacher at a time; began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 teachers
Dr. Rudolf Berlin - ANS-1887 - ophthalmologist who introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan - ANS-1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" i
children
Frank Smith - ANS-Whole language - founder of whole language concept
IDEA - ANS-Individuals with Disabilities Act
IEP - ANS-Individualized Education Plan
James Hinshelwood - ANS-1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness
called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those
that were identified with congenital word blindness
Joe Torgesen - ANS-Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of
reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness
and reading
Keith Stanovich - ANS-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
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman - ANS-Whole Language - DEAR, evaluation through miscues
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504 - ANS-Federal law
Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$
Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace
Does not provide funding but can without federal funding
Public schools receive federal funding so law applies
Samuel T. Orton - ANS-1925 - Coined the term strephosymbolis which means twisted symbols;
pathologist, neurologist and psychiatrist in the US, studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany, work
influenced by James Hinshelwood
SBOE - ANS-State Board of Education
Texas Administrataive Code 74.28 - ANS-State Board of Education Rule
District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district.
District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia.
SBOE does not recommend programs.
SBOE does provide guidelines and descriptors.
Districts must notify parents prior to testing rights under 504.
Instruction must be at a student's campus.
Early identification must be available.
