A disorder afflicting children of near average general intelligence with certain learning or behavior disabilities.
What is minimal brain dysfunction.
100
The inability to recognize , discriminate and interpret sensation especially wisual and auditory.
What are perceptual disorders.
100
This assesment is used to determine specific needs within a content area. it is also used to establish an intervention plan for a student.
What is a diagnostic assessment?
100
LD students spends a portion of the school day in this setting.
What is a resource classroom?
200
This American President signed the IDEA into law.
Who is George H. W. Bush?
200
The medical specialty that focuses on the structure and function of the brain.
What is Neurology?
200
Students that suffer with this often have problems screening out what is going on around them, and because of this have problems concentrating.
What is ADHD?
200
These test are used as a formal measure to compare a students performance to others.
What are standardized tests.
200
This term refers to a team of teachers made up of one general classroom and one special education teacher providing instruction to all classroom students.
What is co-teaching?
300
In 1963 this person introduced the term Learning Disabilities at a conference in Chicago.
Who is Samuel A Kirk?
300
An injury to the central nervous system that originates outside the individual and results in a learnign disorder.
What is acquired trauma?
300
Of all academic difficulties, this is the most common among students with learning disabilities.
What are reading problems?
300
This evaluation process is used to identify a student with Learning Disibilities.
What is an Response to Intervention (RTI)?
300
When a student that is LD spends the majority of his day in a regular classroom.
What is inclusion placement?
400
The term "highly Qualified" wasa introduced in 2002 along with this.
What is the NO Child Left behind ACT?
400
Events that effect the child during the birth process.
What are perinatal causes?
400
Students with LD have problems retaining information because they have problems with this.
What are memory problems?
400
This assessment is taken directly from a collection of the students work.
What is a portfolio assessment?
400
This teacher travels to various schools and consults with general teachers.
What is an itinerant teacher?
500
This committe was formed to develop an acceptible definition ofr learning disabilities.
What is the National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children (NACHC)?
500
A syndrome that affects males learning languange and reading. it also affects motor coordination.
What is Klinefelter syndrome?
500
Students with LD often can't relate to their peers because they have not developed these.
What are social skills?
500
This assesment detremines where a child should begin instruction in a specific body of material.
What is a placement test?
500
This term is used for the extent appropriate that students wtih disabilities should be educated with students without disabilities.