Lecuture 10: Reading Disorders Flashcards
1
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Developmental Dyslexia’s primary impairment
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Phonological processing
2
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What is phonological awareness
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The manipulation of phonological information
3
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Magnocellular theory
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Deficits in the dorsal visual pathway are a causal mechanism for dyslexia
4
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Impaired auditory processing hypotheses
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Specific deficit in the ability to process rapidly and sequentially presented auditory information causes dyslexia
5
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What are peripheral dyslexias?
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- neglect dyslexia
- letter-by-letter reading
6
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What are central dyslexias?
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- surface dyslexia
- phonological dyslexia
- deep dyslexia
7
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What is neglect dyslexia
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- Visual analysis system impaired
- reading the end of the word correctly, but the beginning wrong
8
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What is letter-by-letter reading
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- connection between visual analysis system and visual input lexicon affected
- Patients recognize words only after they named every letter
9
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What is surface dyslexia
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- visual input lexicon is impaired
10
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What is phonological dyslexia
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- grapheme-phoneme conversion is impaired
- patients cannot apply GPC procedures on letter combinations that they have never seen before
11
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What is deep dyslexia
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- patients who make semantic errors
- deficit in the semantic system
- semantic errors also occurs in other tasks such as picture naming
