People
Etiology
The Brain
Reading
Law
100
Coined the term "learning disability."
Who is Dr. Samuel Kirk?
100
Lead, alcohol, and nicotine.
What are teratogens which interfere with gene activity?
100
Can cause learning disabilities if they don't travel among the neurons carrying the correct action potential.
What are neurotransmitters?
100
difficulty interpreting written or printed symbols.
What is dyslexia?
100
Required for all students receiving special education services.
What is an IEP?
200
Researcher who transitioned from studying "word blindness" to studying "dyslexia."
Who is Rudolf Berlin?
200
Removal of synthetic colors, flavors, and preservatives, and artificial sweeteners from consumption.
What is the Feingold Diet?
200
Equipment used to view the brain in thought, movement, and emotion.
What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI)?
200
The knowledge of letters and sounds.
What is phonics?
200
Team assesses for adequate achievement.
What is the multidisciplinary evaluation team?
300
Term for "twisted symbols" according to Dr. Samuel Orton.
What is strephosymbolia?
300
Belief that intelligence and personal attributes are due to the shape of the skull.
What is phrenology?
300
Deficit in the brain linked with dyslexia.
What is saccadic suppression?
300
The reversal of letters, confusion of palindromes, and reading from right to left.
What is mixed dominance?
300
The eight aspects of IDEA.
What are FAPE, zero reject, child find, IEP development, parental involvement, LRE, non-discriminatory evaluation, and due process all part of?
400
Encouraged the Neurological Impress Method to combine seeing, hearing, and speaking.
Who is R. G. Heckelman?
400
The understanding that each learning disability is different.
What is heterogenous?
400
Absence of gyri in the brain causing a small head and possible deformed extremities.
What is lissencephaly?
400
Grapheme is to phoneme as...
Letter is to sound.
400
The law which made funding and services available for learning disabilities.
What is Public Law 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act?
500
Women who researched the use impact of visual-auditory, auditory-visual, auditory-kinesthetic, and kinesthetic-visual training.
Who are Anna Gillingham and Bessie Stillman?
500
Examples are ADHD, sensory problems, and mental retardation.
What are not learning disabilities?
500
Formation of new neural connections.
What is brain plasticity?
500
The inability to quickly retrieve the spoken reference for visual stimuli as connected with dyslexia.
What is the double deficit hypothesis?
500
Neither option is mandatory but one must be used to place a child in special education.
What is Response to Intervention or Discrepancy Model?
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