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1: Research and Reading Disability

Key Terms
  • scientifically based or evidence-based research
  • randomized controlled trials
  • peer review
  • convergence of evidence
  • experimental research
  • quasi-experimental research
  • qualitative research
  • ethnographic observation
  • quantitative research
  • criterion-referenced
  • What Works Clearinghouse
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  • National Reading Panel
    • Phonemic awareness
    • Phonics instruction
    • Reading fluency
    • Vocabulary development
    • Reading comprehension strategies
  • teacher education and reading instruction
  • computer technology and reading instruction
  • No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
  • Reading First state grant program
  • dyslexia
  • The International Dyslexia Association (IDA)
  • neurobiological
  • oral language
  • alphabetic knowledge
  • decodable text
  • automatic word recognition
  • pseudowords
  • multisensory structured language education (MSLE)
    • phonology and phonological awareness
    • sound–symbol association
    • syllable instruction
    • morphology
    • syntax
    • semantics
    • simultaneous, multisensory
    • systematic and cumulative
    • direct instruction
    • diagnostic teaching
    • synthetic and analytic instruction



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