History of SLDs
In the mind
Name that Learning Disorder
Assessment
Dyslexia
100
Who is considered the father of Special Education
Who is Dr. Samuel Kirk.
100
Pierre Paul Broca labeled the small area in the brain that is responsible for speech, Broca's area. Where is Broca's area located?
What is the inferior left frontal lobe.
100
Symptoms include: *difficulty with accurate and/or fluent word recognition *poor spelling *decoding abilities.
What is Dyslexia
100
A student have an IQ score between 90-109 is considered?
What is average intelligence.
100
This is the earliest clue to Dyslexia in Early Childhood.
What is spoken language.
200
This was an early term for dyslexia that was used in the 19th century?
What is word blindness.
200
What is Phrenology?
What is intelligence and personal attributes to the shape of the skull.
200
Severe problems with mathematics?
What is Dyscalculia.
200
A discrepancy of 30 points between what two tests may qualify a child for a learning disability.
What is Achievement Test and IQ test.
200
Children with specific learning disabilities can have dyslexia and also be gifted. What is the term used to describe these children.
What is twice exceptional.
300
During the Solidification Period, Congress passed Public Law 94-142, titled the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. What did this law ensure to all children with disabilities?
What is a free, appropriate public education (FAPE).
300
What is the name of the section of the brain located in the left temporal lobe?
What is Wernicke's area
300
What is a learning disability that affects writing?
What is Dysgraphia.
300
If Steven has an IEP that said he should be in the least restrictive environment. How would you determine what Steven's least restrictive environment (LRE) is?
(Answers may vary) Steven should be placed in a classroom with students without disabilities. Steven's IEP committee will decide what environment fits Steven's social and educational needs. He should be placed in his most enabling environment.
300
This method is used to help a child with Dyslexia learn to read. This method provides the child with a phoneme and the representative letter combination, either using tracing letters with fingers in sand, making letters out of clay, using pipe cleaners, and many more.
What is multi-sensory teaching.
400
The Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1990 is now called?
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
400
Pierre Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke both did research on the brain. What did Carl Wernicke find differently compared to Broca's studies?
What is Carl's patients had fluent and unlabored speech but sentences were meaningless unlike Broca's who had slow, laborious, dysfluent seech.
400
A learning disorder in which symbols and especially phrases, words, or letters appear reversed or transposed.
What is strephosymbolia.
400
A student named Shannon gets bored with the same task. What is one way you can prevent this from happening?
(Answers may vary) What is practice academic skills via tape recorder, computer software, instructional games, etc.
400
A student is having trouble reading in their chapter book. What tool could be given to help this student stay on the correct line.
(Answer may vary) What is a line tracker.
500
The major events that have shaped the field of Learning disabilities are seperated between four periods. During what period was the term learning disabilities introduced?
What is the Emergent Period.
500
Franz Joseph Gall research identified at least three regions of the brain that had a region devoted for that specific function. What are those three functions?
What is intellectual behaviors, vital sources (movement and sensation), and moral qualities.
500
Problems with motor coordination
What is Dyspraxia.
500
The differences between tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 in the Response to Intervention (RTI) and Instruction approach.
What is at tier 1- students are taught using differentiated instruction. Students are evaluated at this stage. Tier 2- students work in smaller groups on specific skills. Progress monitoring of students occurs at least one time a month. Tier 3- students work with a specialist/professional and are given a different curriculum.
500
This percentage of children with an identified learning disability will struggle with reading.
What is eighty percent (80%).
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