CALT Exam Questions And Answers
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Adolph Kussmaul (1877) - ANSWER✔✔ "word blindness"
Dr. Rudolph Berlin (1887) - ANSWER✔✔ Came up with the word "Dyslexia"
James Hinschelwood (1897) - ANSWER✔✔ Reported cases of "congenital
wordblindness", called on schools to screen and treat it
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan (1896) - ANSWER✔✔ Wrote 1st medical journal on
word blindness
Grace Fernald (1920s) - ANSWER✔✔ Developed the VAKT Method (Fernald
Method)
Samuel T. Orton (1925) - ANSWER✔✔ Neurologist, associated dyslexia as a
"language disorder", Coined the term "strephosymbolia" (twisted symbols)
Anna Gillingham (1930s) - ANSWER✔✔ Developed multisensory teaching with
Orton, Trained 50 teachers with Sally Childs
Aylett Cox - ANSWER✔✔ Developed Alphabetic Phonics at Scottish Rite
Hospital, Worked with Sally Childs
, Drs. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz - ANSWER✔✔ Watched the brain read using
fMRI, Tracked the prevalence of Dyslexia and whether it was a developmental lag
vs. persists over time
Chomsky - ANSWER✔✔ Said children are pre-wired to learn oral language but
reading and writing are acquired
Twin Studies - ANSWER✔✔ Concordance rate 70% in identical pairs, 48% in
fraternal
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