CALT Exam Study Set with Researchers
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Dr. Samuel T. Orton - ANSWER a neuropathologist
coined the term "strephosymbolia" which replaced congenital word blindness
treatment must be highly structured education
Anna Gillingham - ANSWER Educational psychologist
A diagnostician who worked with Dr. Orton.
Together they developed procedures for remediation or reading, spelling, and
writing.
Mary Ann Wolf - ANSWER Double-deficit hypothesis-deficiency in both
phoneme awareness and naming speed
Arthur Benton - ANSWER He believed that written language is a "cultural
product and not a biological characteristic."
Dr. Sally and Bennett Shawitz - ANSWER Used MRI to identify the parts of the
brain used in reading (by blood flow)
Kenneth Goodman - ANSWER *Introduced whole language in U.S. schools
*author of "What's Whole About Whole Language"
*He was not a GOODman because whole language was not good for our schools.
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Paula Tallal - ANSWER Developed a program to increase processing speed
called Fast forWord
Plasticity of the brain
Louisa Moats - ANSWER Site director of NICHD Early Interventions Project in
Washington, D.C.
Notable Writings: LETRS, Teaching IS Rocket Science
Brought phonics to CA
Aylett Cox - ANSWER Developed Alphabetic Phonics curriculum with Dr. Lucius
Waites and staff of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital
Reid Lyon - ANSWER Neuropsychologist in charge of NIH research
Confirmed importance of phonological awareness
Dr. Macdonald Critchley - ANSWER National Federation of Neurology
Established the term "developmental dyslexia"
Dr. Barbara Bateman - ANSWER Study that discovered a person without
learning difficulties requires 5-15 repetitions for retention; those with learning
difficulties may require 500-1500.
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University of Oregon
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Dr. Norman Geschwind - ANSWER Linked male left-handness and autoimmune
disease to dyslexia
Adolph Kussmaul - ANSWER Coined word "word blindness" to an isolated
condition affecting the ability to recognize and read text
Bruce Pennington - ANSWER Twin study in Boulder, Colorado and found that
dyslexia is both familial and heritable. Linked dyslexia to 6th and 15th
chromosome
James Hinshelwood - ANSWER "Congenital word blindness"
Ophthalmologist from Scotland
Thought left hemisphere was affected in reading difficulties
Dr. Albert Galaburda - ANSWER Neuroanatomical anomalies in brains with
developmental dyslexia
Confirmed dyslexia is an organic disorder
Confirmed in dyslexic brain that both sides of brain are equal
Abnormal migration of neural cells
Isabella Liberman - ANSWER Studying phonological processing deficits
affecting the ability to make use of letter-sound associations as an effect of rapid
retrieval problems
Marilyn Jager Adams - ANSWER Known for work in phonological awareness
author of many children's books
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