Intellectual Disabilities
Learning Disabilities
Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
Autism Spectrum
Communication Disorders
100
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance
What is IDEA definition of intellectual disability?
100
Percentage of prevalence of learning disabilities in general education.
What is 4% of the school-age population?
100
Proposed replacement for federal definition; states that these disorders are "emotional or behavioral responses in school programs so different from appropriate age, cultural, or ethnic norms that the responses adversely affect educational performance, including academic, social, vocational or personal skills".
What is CCBD's definition of emotional or behavioral disorder?
100
Government's official definition of this developmental disability which affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, as well as one's educational performance
What is IDEA's definition of Autism?
100
Percentage of prevalence of communication disorders among the entire school-age population.
What is 2.5%?
200
Test used to diagnose severity of intellectual disability; individual can be classified as mild, moderate, severe, or profound based on the number scored on this test.
What is IQ Test?
200
Non-governmental definition that clarifies that learning disabilities is a general term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities.
What is National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities Definition?
200
The two types of behaviors that are often present in a child with an emotional/behavioral disorder. One is much more obvious and treatable than the other.
What are externalizing and internalizing behaviors?
200
Number of students ages 6-21 in the 2009-2010 school year who receive special education services under the autism classification.
What is 333,022 students?
200
Federal definition used to legitimize special education services: "a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance".
What is IDEA's definition of speech or language impairment?
300
Percentage of intellectual disabilities in all school-age children in special education
What is 7.8%?
300
Five conditions included in federal definition of learning disabilities.
What are perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia?
300
Prevalence of mental health problems in all school-age children that are severe enough to warrant intervention.
What is 3-6%?
300
Scientific approach to creating instruction for children with ASD; Educator teaches behavior principles and then sets up many opportunities for children to practice and perfect skills in multiple settings.
What is applied behavior analysis (ABA)?
300
Professional who helps create an IEP for a child with a communication disorder. Main goal is to maximize the communication skills of the individual by using compensatory techniques, as well as different means of communication.
What is a speech-language pathologist?
400
Skill which requires making personal goals and plans to achieve them; entails being responsible and active in one's own learning and can be encouraged and fostered by the teacher.
What is self-determination?
400
Memory-enhancing strategies that help students make strong connections between concepts; include letter strategies, the keyword method, and the pegword method
What are mnemonics?
400
Should be a major goal of every teacher of children with E/BD; can be achieved with empathy, differential acceptance, by being a responsible role model, and having care and respect for the child.
What is a strong teacher-student relationship?
400
American expanded version of CHAT, has 23 questions that help discriminate between children with and without ASD. Does not necessarily lead to a diagnosis of ASD.
What is the M-CHAT?
400
Form of intervention that involves taking advantage of everyday situations to practice language skills. Should be enjoyable for the teacher and student and not forced.
What is a naturalistic strategy?
500
Type of feedback commonly used with students with intellectual disabilities, entails presenting extra information along with positive reinforcement when teaching.
What is instructive feedback?
500
Teacher handout that students can follow along with in class; advantageous for kids who are auditory and visual learners
What are guided notes?
500
One way that a child with an E/BD can gain control over his or her life; teaches responsibility and self-determination.
What is self-management?
500
Methods that are used to explain social situations and norms in an inventive format that makes sense to a child with ASD. Use descriptive sentences, perspective sentences, directive sentences, and affirmative sentences.
What are social stories?
500
Category of strategies that help students with speech or writing. Involves three components: a representational symbol or vocabulary, a means for selecting symbols, and a means for transmitting the symbols.
What is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)?
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