A neurological SLD characterized by difficulties with word recognition, decoding abilities, and comprehension.
What is dyslexia?
100
Trauma that takes place during birth.
What is perinatal trauma?
100
Models which are used to identify children with learning disabilities.
What are the Response to Intervention model and the Discrepancy Model?
100
The two areas of the brain that affect reading and processing of text.
What are Broca's Area and Wernicke's Area?
100
Those with SLD's have dysfunctions in this type of system.
What is the Central Nervous System?
200
The most common learning disability in schools.
What is Developmental Apraxia of Speech?
200
Trauma that lasts approximately 40 weeks between conception and birth.
What is prenatal trauma?
200
Intelligence that is word oriented and important to classroom settings.
What is crystalized intelligence?
200
The ________ __________ connects both hemispheres of the brain.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
200
A Specific Learning Disability is a disability in a _______ process, or skill set.
What is a psychological process?
300
An SLD which is characterized by fine motor problems, difficulty with spelling, irregular letter shapes and sizes, problems with expressive writing, and holding pencils in an atypical manner.
What is dysgraphia?
300
Trauma that occurs during developmental period after birth.
What is post-natal trauma?
300
Innate intelligence that cannot be instructed by others.
What is fluid intelligence?
300
The predetermined pathways that have developed through use of the brain.
What is neural migration?
300
The percentage of students with an SLD that will enroll in a four year college after high school graduation.
What is 10 percent?
400
A learning disorder in which symbols, phrases, words, or letters appear to be reversed or transposed in reading.
What is strephosymbolia?
400
Characteristics of this syndrome include small eye openings, thin upper lips, and abnormally large ears.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
400
_____ design measures fluid intelligence.
What is block design?
400
Chemicals that are responsible for signal transmission between the individual neurons.
What are neurotransmitters?
400
Children with dyslexia typically have a high ________ for learning in other cognitive abilities.
What is aptitude?
500
Difficulties in this SLD include disoriented left and right senses, acquired spatial orientation, remembering math formulas, and distinguishing numerical symbols.
What is dyscalculia?
500
______ occurs when the umbilical chord wraps around the fetus's neck and cuts off oxygen to the brain.
What is hypoxia?
500
Discrepancy models measure both ________ and ________.
What is aptitude and achievement?
500
This neurotransmitter is involved in rewards or reinforcements as well as problems in cognition. A deficiency in this neurotransmitter is found in those with Parkinson's disease.
What is Dopamine?
500
There must be ____ standard deviations between scores of the Discrepancy Model for a child to be diagnosed with a learning disability.