Intelligence
This type of intelligence is more important for new tasks and rapid decision making.
What is fluid intelligence?
A disorder that causes students to be inattentive hyperactive and impulsive.
What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
This concept is used to describe the way individuals think, perceive and remember information.
What is cognitive style?
An unusually high ability or aptitude in one or more areas to such a degree that special education services are necessary to help the student meet his or her full potential.
What is "giftedness"?
This is the way in which educators conduct evaluations on students with special needs, in order to meet those needs.
What is an IEP? (Individualized Education Program)
This strategy is used to align each student's current knowledge, skills, and needs in order to teach effectively.
what is differentiated instruction?
A mild form of autism, many of these students prefer to be alone and form weak emotional attachments to others.
What is Asperger syndrome?
This is known as a person's inherent qualities of mind and character.
What is dispostion?
Providing individualized tasks and assignments, forming study groups of children with similar interests and abilities, and teaching complex skills within the context of specific subjects areas are forms of...
What is adapted instruction?
When working with students identified as having cognitive, emotional, or behavioral difficulties, think of their disability labels as ____ that may no longer be applicable as classroom performance improve
What is "temporary classifications"?
This type of intelligence is accumulated from our experiences, schooling, and culture.
What is crystallized intelligence?
In this approach, a teacher keeps an eye out for any student who has exceptional difficulty with basic skills in a certain domain.
What is Response to Intervention? (RTI)
A kind of thinking where individuals break new stimuli and tasks into their component parts and see them somewhat independently.
What is analytic thinking?
Giftedness is thought to be the result of _____ and ____.
What is genetic predisposition and environmental nurturing?
Minority groups are underrepresented in these programs.
What are programs for gifted students?
This theory suggests that we have at least eight different abilities. (linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spacial intelligence, musical intelligence etc...)
What is Gardner's multiple intelligence theory?
A term used to minimize the attention on someone's weakness in order to focus on the actual person and their age typical characteristics.
What is people-first language?
In this type of thinking, individuals perceive situations as integrated wholes that are closely tied to their context.
What is holistic thinking?
This encourages but does not mandate special education services for students who are gifted.
What is Jacob K. Javits' Gifted and Talented Student Education Act of 1987?
The importance of looking beyond IQ when looking for giftedness.
Looking beyond IQ allows you to find specialized talents or adapt to gifted students with disabilities.
The idea that people are more likely to think and behave intelligently when they have assistance from the physical, cultural, and social environment
What is distributed intelligence?
Many special educators advocated for this term in reference to students who show pronounced delays in most aspects of cognitive and social development
What is an intellectual disability?
This act was passed by Congress in 1975, has been amended and reauthorized several times, and grants educational rights from birth to 21 years of age for people with cognitive, emotional or physical disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This theory states that when gifted students are given the same assignments as their average-ability peers, they’re unlikely to be working within their zone of proximal development and therefore are unlikely to make significant cognitive advancements.
What is Vygotsky's Theory?
Why are English Language Learners identified as having a disability at higher rates than native English speakers?
ELLs have difficulty understanding and responding to items on LANGUAGE-BASED diagnostic tests.