In the Beginning
Dyslexia
Assess Me
ADHD
SLDs in 123s
100
In Spain during the 16th century, he tried to teach boys who were deaf to learn the alphabet.
Who is Pedro Ponce de Leon?
100
A possible reason for why more boys are diagnosed with dyslexia than girls.
What is gender bias or teacher expectations?
100
A form of test that would be beneficial for a student suffering from math anxiety.
What is an informal test?
100
Learning disability is to school psychologist as ADHD is to this.
What is a physician?
100
A student displaying trouble keeping his or her place on a worksheet, placing decimal places in the correct place, writing in a straight line, and differentiating between numbers is showing difficulties in this.
What is visual perception?
200
This U.S. law's primary, but not only, purpose is to provide a free, appropriate public education to children with disabilities.
What is Public Law 94-142?
200
The relationship between phonological abilities and intelligence.
What is independent of each other?
200
A scientifically based process implemented in SBRI whose purpose is to continually measure student performance.
What is progress monitoring?
200
The missing component for a multimodal treatment for ADHD: a strong home/school relationship, effective teaching techniques, pharmacology and effective behavioral strategies.
What is counseling?
200
The two areas that IDEA states in which a student can have a learning disability.
What is mathematics calculation and mathematics reasoning?
300
Although not by origin a case related to the educational inclusion of individuals with disabilities, this Supreme Court decision was used to support inclusion for students with disabilities.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
300
This Stage of reading skill development as defined by Chall can be compared to riding a bike without thinking about it, although students with reading disabilities may need extra practice.
What is Stage 2; or confirmation, fluency, and unplugging from print?
300
One of its major benefits is that students with difficulties in academics receive early interventions before qualifying for special education services.
What is the Response to Intervention Model?
300
This brain structural attribute may explain why a child with ADHD will drift off or outburst suddenly.
What is a small cortex in the frontal lobe?
300
The first step of this type of instruction includes giving the student physical objects to manipulate.
What is CRA (Concrete-Representational-Abstract)?
400
This period is characterized by the discovery of the brain's function during the process of reading and a beginning understanding of learning difficulties.
What is the European Foundation Period?
400
A technique often used by an individual with dyslexia to activate the front of the brain (particularly Broca's area) during silent reading.
What is to say words under one's breath?
400
The resulting effect of dissatisfaction with standardized and traditional test items, as well as a requirement authorized by the reauthorization of IDEA.
What is alternative assessment?
400
The length of time a child must display symptoms and the age by which symptoms must be present for a diagnosis of ADHD.
What is at least six months for symptoms to be present and age seven years for symptoms to be displayed.
400
According to Piaget, this basic ability which includes discriminating likeness and differences, must come before understanding numbers.
What is classification?
500
As a result of the work done by Marion Monroe, Anna Gillingham, and Samuel Kirk, among others, these techniques for teaching reading began to be used by teachers.
What are visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences; or multisensory teaching techniques?
500
The purpose of using repetition, relationship (such as images and mnemonics), and avoiding distractions, which may improve a naming speed deficit.
What is to improve memory?
500
This evidence suggests that the discrepancy model does not provide intervention for students in the early grades.
What is the reality that many students in primary grades have not had enough academic exposure to display an aptitude/achievement discrepancy?
500
An effective teacher response to a student with ADHD who has just successfully completed an academic task.
What is a social reinforce such as verbal or written praise?
500
The purpose of this type of authentic math assessment is to give the teacher insight into the student's thought process during math problem solving and computation.
What is a diagnostic interview?
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