DEFINITIONS
TIME PERIODS
CONTRIBUTING
PEOPLE
MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
INTERESTING FACTS
100
The disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which the disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write , spell or do mathematical calculations.
What is the term specific learning disability?
100
The time period from 1960 to 1965 known for these four things: the introduction of the term learning disabilities,the federal government addressed learning disabilities on its agenda, organizations for learning disabilites sprouted, and the development of educational programming for students with disabilities arose.
What is the Emergent Period?
100
The man who made a connection between parts of the brain, specific behaviors and learning processes and identifying three regions of the brain.
Who is Franz Joseph Gall?
100
The most populated category of exceptionality receiving specials education within our public schools.
What is Specific Learning Disability?
100
Boys are four times more likely than girls to be identified with a specific learning disability.
Who are four times more likely to be identified with specific learning disabilities?
200
The model that proposes the developing fetus and children are very vulnerable to environmental hazards which when exposed during certain developmental windows may impact the developing brain and contribute to learning and developmental disabilities.
What is the Environmental and Taratogen Model?
200
The time period from 1985 to 2000 known for validating the field of learning disabilities and giving concern for the high growth in the occurance of learning disabilities.
What is the Turbulent Period?
200
He was a pediatrician and allergist who developed the Feingold Diet which called for the elimination of certain artificial coloring, flavoring, aspartame and salicylates.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Feingold?
200
A disorder with a deficiency in the ability to write, primarily in terms of handwriting, but perhaps also in terms of coherence. It occurs regardless of the ability to read and is not due to intellectual impairment.
What is Dysgraphia?
200
Children ranging from 9-14 are the largest age span of children identified with learning disabilities.
What ages are most identified with learning disabilities?
300
The model that support structural and fuctional differences occuring in areas in the brain coinside with learning disabilities.
What is the Brain Damage Model?
300
The time period from 1920 to 1960 where United States researchers placed emphasis on language and reading disabiliites and perceptual, perceptual-motor and attention disabilites.
What is United States Foundation Period?
300
The person recognized as the father of special education.
Who is Dr. Samuel Kirk?
300
A language and reading disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and spell, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, and/or rapid naming.
What is Dyslexia?
300
The new science that deals with mapping of the brain at a deeper level than ever before and emerged from a project called the International Consortium of Brain Mapping.
What is neuro-informatics?
400
The model that suggests specific chemicals and food coloring added to food can cause learning disabilities.
What is the Organic and Biological Model?
400
The time period from 1800 to 1920 resulting in reading disability publications, a link between the brain and process of reading, and a description of what we call dyslexia today.
What is the European Foundation Period?
400
A German neurologist from the 1870's who described word blindness as conditions involving children that could not read though their eye sight was perfect and later his descriptions became recognized as dyslexia.
Who is Adolf Kussamaul?
400
A learning difficulty that can affect motor coordination and planning of movements as a result of brain messages not being accurately transmitted to the body.
What is Dyspraxia?
400
The term refering to fast, accurate and effortless word identification when reading single words.
What is automaticity?
500
A disorder with a group of birth defects caused by the abnormal migration of neurons in the developing brain and nervous system.
What is Neuronal Migration Disorder?
500
The time period from 1975 to 1985 where an agreed upon learning disability definitions was established, identification methods for students with learning disabilities were identified, and applied research with valid procedures were recognized.
What is the Solidification Period?
500
The individual known for setting the stage for the study of reading disabilities in the United States.
Who is Samuel Orton?
500
A disorder that involves impairment of language ability such as trouble with understanding spoken language and poor reading comprehension. This class of language disorder ranges from having difficulty remembering words to being completely unable to speak, read, or write.
What is Aphasia?
500
The age range of 6-8 has the smallest number of students getting identified with learning disabilities.
Which age group has the least amount of students identified with a learning disability?
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