Academic Skills

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Academic Skills
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Reading

• Link
• Words
• Real Words contain Orthographic, Phono, and
  Semantic Codes
• Psuedowords - Ortho and Phono
• Reading involves activation and coordination of
  multiple functional systems (Ortho, phono, and
  semantic).
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Dyslexic vs. Normal Readers

• Different brain activation areas
• General Conclusion left posterior region
  differences
• Brunswick 1999-problem in lexical retrieval
• Word Retrieval
• Phonological Assembly (Pugh, 2000)
• Double Deficit Theory (Wolf 1999) both phono and
  word retrieval

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Development

• Decoding-beginning development and linking of
  individual systems
• Fluency automatic connections among components
  to become functional system
• Automatizing increases comprehension
• Read to Learn- goal based

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Writing

• Highly complex, one of the most difficult skills
  to acquire
• Not just reading visual-spatial requirements
  more demanding
• Requires precision of visual features whereas
  reading only requires abstract features
• Language by Hand and Cognition by Hand two
  different systems
• P. 171
• Table 6.1 p. 177

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Motor

• P. 183
• Simple motor- primary motor strip
• Complex motor- primary supplemental
• cerebellum
• Tests
• Dysgraphia disorder of converting phonological
  codes to motor movement
• P. 188-190

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Math

• P 195
• Dimensions
• Strategies/executive - automaticity
• STM WM
• Declarative procedural knowledge
• Temporal processing- visual spatial
• Input-Output
• Finger skills
• Concrete Operational formal operations