Dyslexia
Other Learning Disabilities & Disorders
Etiologies & Learning Disabilities
Assessment, Laws, & Teaching Methods
Learning Disabilities: Then & Now
100
Dyslexics tend to confuse phonemes, the sounds we assign to the letters of the alphabet, and these.
What are graphemes
100
This condition is not considered to be a specific learning disability, contrary to popular belief.
What is ADHD
100
People who follow the Feingold Diet believe that these can cause learning disabilities.
What are food additives.
100
Teachers using this instructional technique create learning experiences that address multiple senses.
What is the VAKT technique
100
This person has been called the father of special education.
Who is Samuel A. Kirk
200
Summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting are all concepts of this teaching strategy.
What is reciprocal teaching
200
Tight, awkward pencil grip, trouble forming letter shapes, and a mixture of cursive and print writing are warning signs for this learning disability.
What is Dysgraphia
200
This category of disorders occurs when neurons form or interconnect incorrectly causing birth defects that may include things such as poor muscle tone and motor skills, seizures, mental retardation, and a smaller than normal head.
What is Neuronal Migration Disorders
200
Tiered instruction, which involves teaching one concept and meeting the different learning needs in a group, is one of the first ways to begin this type of teaching method.
What is differentiated instruction
200
Before the term dyslexia was coined in 1887, this term was used to describe children who could not read even though their eyesight was perfect.
What is word blindness
300
This is the most popular multi-sensory reading program for dyslexics.
What is the Orton Gillingham Method
300
People with this learning disorder see symbols, phrases, words, or letters reversed or transposed in reading.
What is strephosymbolia
300
This term describes toxins, such as alcohol and cigarette smoke, that easily cross over the placenta during the prenatal period.
What are teratogens
300
This act does not require inclusion, but does require that children with disabilities be educated in the least restrictive environment appropriate to meets their unique and individual needs.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
300
This method goes against more traditional forms of special education service delivery by bringing support services and aids into the regular classroom instead of removing the child from the regular classroom.
What is inclusion
400
This percentage of dyslexics see letters and words backwards.
What is 5%
400
This diet claims to help people who suffer from learning disabilities caused by specific chemicals and food colorings added to our food.
What is the Feingold Diet
400
Exposure to this environmental agent is only one of many that can cause attention problems, hyperactivity, reduced IQ, poor school performance, and delinquent behavior.
What is lead
400
Based on this model, if a student’s score on the WISC-IV test is at least 30 points higher than his/her test score on the Woodcock Johnson Achievement Test, the child is said to have a learning disability.
What is the Discrepancy Model
400
The number of students identified as having learning disabilities in our world today.
What is 2.8 million
500
This term is used to describe gifted children who are also dyslexic.
What is twice exceptional
500
A person who can understand mathematical concepts when talking about them, but has difficulty reading symbols, especially when they occur in sentences or equations, may suffer from this learning disability.
What is Lexical Dyscalculia
500
This phenomenon can sometimes contribute to an impairment, such as a deaf person suffering from a continual ringing in their ears, as a result of newly rewired brain cells.
What is Neuroplasticity
500
Using the discrepancy model, a standard score in this range classifies a student as having borderline mental retardation.
What is 70-79
500
This law, passed in 1975, ensures that children with learning disabilities will receive free appropriate public education by making new requirements that schools must follow if a child has a learning disability.
What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act
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