Week 2 Flashcards
Dynamic Literacy
A readers ability to interrelate content to other knowledge through both deductive and inductive reasoning
Critical Literacy
A readers ability to actively interpret between the lines, analyze and synthesize information and to be able to explain content
Phonological Awareness
Knowledge of the sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words
Decoding
Breaking or segmenting a written word into its component sounds and then blending them Together to form a recognizable word
Literacy
Use of visual modes of communication specifically reading and writing
Code Switching
The process in which bilingual speakers transfer between 2 languages based on the listener, context and topic
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Damage to the brain that results from bruising and laceration caused by forceful contact with the relatively tough inner surfaces of the skull or from secondary edema or swelling infraction or death of tissue and hematoma on focal bleeding
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Term used to characterize individuals at the severe end of the pervasive developmental disorder continuum ASD is an impairment in reciprocal social interaction with severely limited behavior, interest, and activity repertoire that has its onset before 30 months of age
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Hyperactivity and attentional difficulties in children who do not manifest other characteristics of learning disabilities
Executive Function
Aspect of metacognition used in self regulation and including the ability to attend, to set reasonable goals, to plan and organize to achieve each goal, to initiate,monitor, and evaluate one’s performance in relation to that goal, revise plans and strategies based on feedback
Working Memory
An active process that allows limited information to be held in a temporary accessible state while cognitive processing occurs
Specific Language Impairment
A language impairment in the absence of hearing, oral, structural, oral functioning, cognitive, or perceptual deficits
Intellectual Disability
Substantial limitations in intellectual functioning, significant limitations in adaptive behavior consisting of conceptual, social, and practical skills originally before 18 years of age
Metalinguistic Skills
Abilities to enable a child to consider language in the abstract, to make judgements about the connections of language, and to create verbal contexts, such as writing
Mean Length of Utterance
Average length of utterances, measured in morphemes. In English this is an important measure of preschool development because language increases in complexity as it becomes longer
Fast Mapping
A process in which a child infers the meaning of a word from context and uses it in a similar context at a later time. Fast mapping enables preschool children to expand their vocabulary quickly by being able to use a word without fully understanding the meaning
Reformulation
An adult response to a child’s utterance in which the adults provide a more complex example of what the child has said
Lexicon
An individual’s personal dictionary
Language Impairment
Heterogeneous group of deficits and or immaturities in the comprehension and or production of spoken or written language
Dialogic Reading
Picture book interactive sharing between a caregiver and young child, in which caregivers try to get children involved in the reading process by asking them questions about the story or allowing a child to tell the story
Metacognition
Knowledge about knowledge and cognitive process, including self appraisal
Print Awareness
Knowledge of the meaning and function of print, including recognition of words and letters and of terminology such as letter, word, or sentence
Hyperlexia
A mild form of pervasive development disorder characterized by an inordinate interest in letters and words and by the early ability to read but with little comprehension
Story grammar
Common elements and event sequence in narratives
