Dyslexia Professional Development

What are components included in the definition of dyslexia?

• neurobiological in origin

• difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.

• all of these

• unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction.

Scarborough's Rope covers the reading concepts of language comprehension and _______ _________.

A screener ______ identify students with dyslexia.

• Can

• Cannot

Which is an area that psychologists don't look into when identifying dyslexia?

• Spelling

• Using the context

• Oral language skills

• Background knowledge

Reading instruction for students with dyslexia should be explicit, systematic and cumulative, multi-sensory, language-based, and aligned to _______ student need.