Dyslexia Vocabulary

5. Ability to arrange words in sentences.
6. Motor movements that are involved in the production of speech sounds.
7. The understanding and use of the alphabetic principle, that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes in written language, and that this information is used to decode and spell words.
8. The study of how the aspects of language structure are related to the ways words are formed from prefixes, roots, and suffixes, and how words are related to each other to understand meanings of words and word combinations.
10. A specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.
11. Ability to understand meanings of words and word combination.
12. Language Ability to speak and understand language. It encompasses verbal and nonverbal communication skills and how an individual uses language. Expressive language skills include facial expressions, gestures, intentionality, vocabulary, semantics, morphology, and syntax.

1. Measures A set of individually administered, standardized procedures designed to assess basic skills in reading, mathematics, writing, and spelling.
2. Sensitivity Phonemic and phonological awareness difficulties.
3. and Multimodal Language-Learning Techniques Use of two or more sensory pathways (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and tactile).
4. The ability to perceive and manipulate aspects of a writing system and the visual aspect of reading and spelling, such as letters, letter patterns, and words.
9. Language Ability to understand words and language. Involves attention, listening, and processing the message to gain information. Areas of receptive language skills include attention, receptive vocabulary, following directions, and understanding questions.
13. Awareness The most complex of phonological awareness skills. It is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual phonemes in spoken words. The ability to recognize that a spoken word consists of a sequence of individual sounds and the ability to manipulate individual sounds.