History
Acts and Organizations dedicated to learning disabilities
Assessment and Services
Teaching and Learning Strategies
Terminology
100
Known as the "father of special education".
Who is Samuel Kirk?
100
This public law ensures free, appropriate public education to all children with disabilities as well as receiving an education in the least restrictive environment.
What is the IDEA?
100
Schools and classrooms are restructured to meet the needs of all individuals through substantial resources and support for students and teachers.
What is inclusion?
100
Using one-to-one instruction or small-group instruction are examples of this.
What are instructional arrangements?
100
This refers to a retardation, disorder, or delayed development, resulting from a psychological handicap caused by a possible cerebral dysfunction and/or emotional or behavioral disturbances. There is a discrepancy between estimated potential and actual level of performance related to basic disorders in the learning process.
What is a learning disability?
200
1963 at a conference in Chicago.
What is the date the term learning disability was first introduced?
200
This organization is known as the largest and most influential learning disabilities parent organization in the United States.
What is the Learning Disabilities Association of America?
200
This is implemented once it has been determined that a student has a learning disability, and consists of performance levels, objectives, special services and how progress will be determined.
What is an Individualized Educational Program (IEP)?
200
Content is presented in several modalities in order for students to better understand.
What is the multisensory method?
200
Students with this have very great difficulty interpreting written/printed symbols because they cannot understand the relationship between letters and sounds.
What is dyslexia?
300
This term was used long ago, and describes what is known today as dyslexia.
What is word blindness?
300
This law made learning disabilities eligible for funding and services.
What is Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act?
300
To an appropriate extent, students with disabilities should be educated with students without disabilities in the general education classroom.
What is the least-restrictive environment (LRE)?
300
Teachers and students work together to comprehend/understand content through use of dialogue.
What is reciprocal teaching?
300
Free Appropriate Public Education.
What is FAPE?
400
During this time period, the term learning disabilities was defined, organizations were founded, and educational programming was implemented.
What is the emergent period?
400
This committee, headed by Samuel Kirk, issued a report on learning disabilities, defining the term so it could be used as a basis for funding.
What is the U.S. Office of Education (USOE)?
400
This is a very intensive intervention for students who are still struggling after intervention and increased progress monitoring.
What is Tier 3 in the RTII model?
400
This level of understanding involves the use of manipulated objects to relate to computational processes.
What is the concrete level?
400
This is a neurologically based disorder of mathematical abilities.
What is dyscalculia?
500
This scale was, and is still used today to score intelligence tests.
What is the Binet-Simon Scale?
500
A group of parents whose children were diagnosed with various problems started this organization after hearing Samuel Kirk at a conference.
What is the Learning Disabilities Association of America?
500
One is that the intelligence and achievement tests are being given before students have had enough exposure to curriculum.
What is a concern of the discrepancy model?
500
This is thought to reduce the "special education" population if the three steps of this model are implemented with fidelity.
What is the RTI model?
500
By filing this, parents can reject the findings of an evaluation report and seek evaluation outside the district.
What is due process?
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