CDT Neuroscience of Reading & Brain-Based Learning Flashcards
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Which instructional principle is MOST directly supported by research on neuroplasticity in dyslexia intervention?
Answer: Providing early, intensive, explicit instruction to maximize brain reorganization
Neuroplasticity research shows the brain is most responsive to intervention during early development, making early, intensive, explicit instruction most effective.
Orthographic mapping refers to the process by which readers:
Answer: Form permanent memory representations of words by connecting phonemes, graphemes, and meaning
Orthographic mapping, described by Kilpatrick, is the mental process of permanently connecting a word's pronunciation, spelling, and meaning into long-term memory.
Which deficit would MOST interfere with a student's ability to benefit from orthographic mapping?
Answer: Weak phonemic awareness and phonological processing
Orthographic mapping requires intact phonological representations; weak phonemic awareness prevents the formation of stable phoneme-grapheme connections needed for sight word storage.
The concept of 'reading with the right brain' as a compensatory strategy in dyslexia refers to:
Answer: Using visual memory and context strategies to compensate for inefficient phonological processing
Dyslexic readers often over-rely on right-hemisphere strategies such as context guessing and visual pattern matching to compensate for inefficient left-hemisphere phonological decoding.
Which finding BEST explains why fluency instruction is a necessary component of intervention beyond decoding accuracy?
Answer: Automaticity in word recognition frees cognitive resources for comprehension by reducing working memory load
When word recognition becomes automatic and fluent, working memory is freed to focus on meaning construction and comprehension rather than effortful decoding.
A CDT explains to a teacher that a student's letter reversals (b/d) are NOT a vision problem. Which neurological explanation is MOST accurate?
Answer: The brain's orthographic memory has not yet formed stable, direction-specific representations for those graphemes
Letter reversals reflect incomplete orthographic memory formation, not vision problems; the brain has not yet established firm directional representations for similar-looking graphemes.