The term Learning Disability was first introduced in 1963 by this Doctor.
Who is Dr. Samuel Kirk?
100
A student fidgets with his hands and feet or squirms in his seat is considered what type of criteria for ADHD.
What is Hyperactivity?
100
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability in this subject area.
What is Reading?
100
This type of reinforcement results directly from the appropriate behavior.
What is Natural and Direct Reinforcement?
100
This hemisphere of the brain is associated with logic and intellect.
What is the Left Hemisphere?
200
Learning Disabilities began its emergence as a formal category during this period from 1960 to 1975.
What is the Emergent Period?
200
This disorder occurs with ADHD at a rate of 50 percent and is characterized by anti-social behavior.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
200
This German neurologist located an area in the posterior section of the left temporal lobe that is responsible for processing words we hear.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
200
This approach is based on the premise that specific abilities serve as the foundation for learning and performance.
What is the Specific Abilities Approach?
200
This is the biggest part of the brain.
What is the Cerebrum?
300
This early intervening strategy is a comprehensive, multi-tiered standards aligned strategy to enable early identification and intervention for students at academic or behavioral risk.
What is RtI?
300
ADHD is defined as this type of disorder of childhood.
What is Neurobehavioral?
300
This is the relationship between speech sound and written symbol.
What is Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence?
300
This instruction began in 1966 when Bereiter and Engelmann published a book titled Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Pre-School.
What is Direct Instruction?
300
This part of the brain controls emotions.
What is Amygdala?
400
In 1991 this law was amended to provide comprehensive services to infants, toddlers, and preschool children who are eligible.
What is IDEA?
400
Today the DSM-IV maintains the term Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder which includes three subtypes, predominately inattentive type, predominately hyperactive-impulsive type, and this type.
What is the Combined Type?
400
This IQ-Achievement model assesses whether there is a significant difference between a student's score on a test of general intelligence.
What is the Discrepancy Model?
400
This approach is based on the premise that the environment greatly influences behavior.
What is the Behavioral Approach?
400
The brain is part of this system in the body.
What is the Nervous System?
500
This was one of the earliest classifications of children with learning disabilities.
What is the Brain Injured Child?
500
In order for a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms of the disorder must persist for at least this many months with onset no later then seven years of age.
What is Six Months?
500
Once called word blindness, this learning disorder in which symbols and especially phrases, words, or letters appear to be reversed or transposed in reading.
What is Strephosymbolia?
500
This process is used for determining or ordering the sequence of skills to be taught.
What is Task Analysis?
500
The brain is divided into two hemispheres the each hemisphere is divided in to four regions, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, frontal lobe, and this lobe.