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Alexia - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The loss of the ability to read, as
the result of a brain injury.
Apasia - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Impairs the ability to speak and
understand others.
Articulation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The act or manner of
producing sounds.
Echolalia - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Imitation of the mother's
sounds, rhythm and tone.
Hyperlexia - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The superior ability to reads
words without comprehension.
Lexicon - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ An inventory of word
knowledge, either spoken or written. EX: dictionary, encyclopedia
Otitis Media - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Inflammation of the middle
ear that can lead to temporary conductive hearing loss or permanent
hearing loss.
,Receptive Language Disorder - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The
inability to understand or comprehend language heard or read.
Expressive Language Disorder - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The
inability to put thoughts into words or sentences in ways that make sense
and is grammatically correct.
Phonology - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Smallest unit of sound. The
sounds of letters. Ex: Cat=3 phonemes (c) (a) (t).
Syntax - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The grammar system of
language. The way words are strung together. Ex: words and punctuation
to form sentences, clauses or phrases.
Semantics - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Word meaning in language.
Ex: final destination = last stop
Discourse - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Written or spoken
communication or debate. Ex: Formal writing, a speech.
Morphology - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The smallest unit of
language that convey meaning. Ex: Root words
, Pragmatics - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Incapable of understanding
the speakers intent (requests and tones) Ex: Can't you turn down the
T.V.? = means no; not yes.
Alphabetic Language - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A language in
which letters are used systematically to represent speech sounds.
Alphabetic Principle - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The use of letters
and letter clusters to represent phonemes in an orthography. (spelling)
Anglo Saxon - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The language of the
Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons and Jutes) who settles in Britain in
the 5th and 6th centuries. It was the dominant language in Britain until
the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Analytic Instruction - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Instruction that
separates the whole into its parts to reveal its relationships. (Whole to
Part) (Top Down) (Concept driven)
Analytic Phonics - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Students hear the
whole word and segment into phonemes or sounds in order to spell.
(whole to part) Ex: Pit = (p) (i) (t)
Antonyms - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Words that are opposite in
meaning. (semantics)