The Brain
Neurotransmitters
Brain Trauma
Types of SLD's
Dyslexia
100
This hemisphere controls logcial thinking, language, and word processing.
What is the left hemisphere?
100
This neurotransmitter is involved in sensory perception, mood, depression, and aggression.
What is Serotonin?
100
This type of brain trama happens from conception to birth.
What is prenatal?
100
Symptoms of this are slow response, trouble calculating money, and a hard time mastering basic facts.
What is dyscalculia?
100
This is the percentage of people in the counry who have some form of dyslexia.
What is 15-20%
200
This lobe controls hearin and auditory memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
This neurotransmitter helps regulate arousal andmoods.
What is Norepinephrine?
200
This type of brain trama happens during birth.
What is peri-natal?
200
This disability is associated with poor writing and expression.
What is dysgraphia?
200
This is a disorder where words or letters appear to be reversed.
What is strephosymbolia?
300
This lobe controls visual perception.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
This neurotransmitter problem impacts our ability to attend to a task.
What is inconsistent dopamine?
300
This causes the childs head to grow rapidly after birth and leads to more serious forms of mental retardation.
What is hydrocephalus?
300
This disability is associated with the inability to distinguish the sounds in spoken words.
What is dyslexia?
300
This chart shows the relationship between speech sound and the written letter.
What is the grapheme-phoneme correspondence chart?
400
This lobe controls speech, body movement, and behavior.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
Low levels of this can impact out ability to grasp concepts.
What is Serotonin?
400
Alcohol consumptions by a pregnant mother would fall under this catagory of brain trama to the infant.
What is prenatal?
400
A student with this might have trouble with abstarct methods such as math problems.
What is dyscalculia?
400
This area of the brain is the main problem area for children with dyslexia. It was namedafter a scientist who discovered this area plays a role in language.
What is the broca's area.
500
This part of the brain is located between both hemispheres.
What is the corpus collosum?
500
Low levels of this reduces efficiency in working memory.
What is Dopmine?
500
Being dropped after birth can cause brain injury in this catagory.
What is post-natal?
500
A child who halems with spelling and grammar may have this.
What is dysgraphia?
500
This model is used to determine the difference between iQ scores and achievement tests.
What is the descrepancy model?
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