CALP Exam questions and answers
visual processing ✔✔the ability to recognize and interpret information taken
in by the eyes
WIAT II ✔✔Wäscher Individual Achievement Test; identifies academic
strengths and weaknesses
WRAT ✔✔Wide range achievement test
Parieto-temporal ✔✔receives info 1st - breaks words into parts
Angular Gyrus ✔✔Recieves info 2nd - breaks into phonemes
Brocca's Area ✔✔Receives info 4th - responsible for reading and speech
Brocca's Area/inferior frontal gyrus ✔✔articulation, word analysis. Receives
info 3rd. why dyslexics subvocalize - overly rely on this area to read
Occipito Temporal ✔✔receives info 2nd - where automaticity happens
phonemic awareness ✔✔the ability to identify, distinguish and manipulate
individual sounds and/or syllables
,phonetics ✔✔the study of speech sounds. THINK: 44 speech sounds.
Teachers need to provide a correct model for students
phonics ✔✔INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD that teaches the use of written
symbols to represent speech sounds for racing and spelling; taught
explicitly, systematic, sequenced; how to blend
medial ✔✔anything between 1st and last
blending ✔✔combining spoken morphemes to form syllables and words
bound morpheme ✔✔must be attached to other morphemes ( -er, -s)
Wernike's area ✔✔receives information 3rd; responsible for understanding
the language, subvocalizing
when is a vr not a vr? ✔✔when it is followed by a vowel ( very, arid)
Word Deafness, 1937 ✔✔Orton and Dozier
Pre English ✔✔Celts conquered by Caesar; Teutonic tribes, Anglo-saxon
layer of language
, Anglo-Saxon ✔✔Old English, between 5-12 century( England and SE
Scotland
grapheme ✔✔letter or group of letters used to spell a phoneme or single
speech sound ( -igh, /i/) graph=write=spell
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction ✔✔MSLE - must follow logical order
of language; begin with easy and progress to more difficult material
Universal Screening ✔✔step taken to determine who is at risk for not
meeting grade standards.
cognitive assessment ✔✔gathering test scores and data to make a
judgement about an individuals ability to perform mental activities ( IQ
tests)
composite score ✔✔combines several scores according to a specified
formula
derived score ✔✔when raw scores are converted by numerical
transformation( raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores
visual processing ✔✔the ability to recognize and interpret information taken
in by the eyes
WIAT II ✔✔Wäscher Individual Achievement Test; identifies academic
strengths and weaknesses
WRAT ✔✔Wide range achievement test
Parieto-temporal ✔✔receives info 1st - breaks words into parts
Angular Gyrus ✔✔Recieves info 2nd - breaks into phonemes
Brocca's Area ✔✔Receives info 4th - responsible for reading and speech
Brocca's Area/inferior frontal gyrus ✔✔articulation, word analysis. Receives
info 3rd. why dyslexics subvocalize - overly rely on this area to read
Occipito Temporal ✔✔receives info 2nd - where automaticity happens
phonemic awareness ✔✔the ability to identify, distinguish and manipulate
individual sounds and/or syllables
,phonetics ✔✔the study of speech sounds. THINK: 44 speech sounds.
Teachers need to provide a correct model for students
phonics ✔✔INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD that teaches the use of written
symbols to represent speech sounds for racing and spelling; taught
explicitly, systematic, sequenced; how to blend
medial ✔✔anything between 1st and last
blending ✔✔combining spoken morphemes to form syllables and words
bound morpheme ✔✔must be attached to other morphemes ( -er, -s)
Wernike's area ✔✔receives information 3rd; responsible for understanding
the language, subvocalizing
when is a vr not a vr? ✔✔when it is followed by a vowel ( very, arid)
Word Deafness, 1937 ✔✔Orton and Dozier
Pre English ✔✔Celts conquered by Caesar; Teutonic tribes, Anglo-saxon
layer of language
, Anglo-Saxon ✔✔Old English, between 5-12 century( England and SE
Scotland
grapheme ✔✔letter or group of letters used to spell a phoneme or single
speech sound ( -igh, /i/) graph=write=spell
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction ✔✔MSLE - must follow logical order
of language; begin with easy and progress to more difficult material
Universal Screening ✔✔step taken to determine who is at risk for not
meeting grade standards.
cognitive assessment ✔✔gathering test scores and data to make a
judgement about an individuals ability to perform mental activities ( IQ
tests)
composite score ✔✔combines several scores according to a specified
formula
derived score ✔✔when raw scores are converted by numerical
transformation( raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores
