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Reading/writing
100

TBI

What is Traumatic Brain injury and the degrees of impairment (mild, moderate, severe)?

100

Aided communication

What is the use of augmentative communication systems to facilitate communication with those who may be limited/nonverbal communicators?

100

Spontaneous recovery

What is the period of time when most return to premorbid behaviors and functioning occurs after stroke or traumatic brain injury?

100

Damage to the central nervous system that is referred to as a neuromotor impairment and is the most frequent cause of dysarthria in children.

What is cerebral palsy?

100

Activities to promote early literacy are...

reading aloud, rhyming games, and having the child read to you!

200
DD

What is Developmental Disability, which includes Intellectual and Physical disabilities?

200

Hemorrhagic bleed

What is a bleed in the brain that causes a stroke?

200

Possible causes of literacy disorders...

What is heredity, inconsistencies in pronunciation based on context, inconsistencies in letter-sound correspondence, or inconsistencies in shapes and styles of letters.

200

the most common chromosomal cause of developmental disabilities which may result in mild to severe speech and language delays, hearing loss, and distinctive physical features.

What is Down's syndrome?

200

Phonological awareness is ..

a broad awareness of sounds.

300
DSM

What is the Diagnostic Statistical Manual?

300
Assistive technology

What is something that facilitates access to the environment, communication, and mobility.

300

symptoms of a mild concussion

What are dizziness, loss or no loss of consciousness, impaired memory, headache, difficulty focusing, and vomiting?

300

can be diagnosed as early as 18 months, may have limitations in joint attention, social impairments, repetitive behaviors, may result in mild to more severely impaired cognitive communication skills, and was evident in the movie "Rain Man" which starred Dustin Hoffman.

What is ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder?)

300

Emergent writing progression includes....

scribbling, tracing, attempting to write letters of a child's name.

400

RLOCF

What is the Rancho Levels of Cognitive Functioning used to assess where in the recovery process someone with a TBI is by examining their behaviors, communication, and cognitive functioning?

400

Dysgraphia

What is a disorder of writing?

400

neural plasticity

What is the brain's ability to reorganize itself throughout life by forming new neural connections that may compensate for injury and disease, and helps to explain why children often do well after a TBI?

400

the co-occurrence with autism of unexpected or unusual high-level skills with generally limited intelligence (e.g., mathematical calculations, musical ability, remarkable memory).

What is savant syndrome?

400

 The single best predictor of reading success is....

phonological awareness.

500

F.A.S.T.

What are the signs of stroke? (Face, arms, speech, time to call 911)

500

Cerebral vascular accident

What is another name for stroke?

500

most common learning disability

What is dyslexia?

500

a physical condition in which an individual cannot detect or distinguish the full range of sounds normally available to the human ear.

What is a hearing loss?

500

The most common learning disability in children and adults is.....

dyslexia

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