History
Theories
Types
Inclusion
Co-Teaching Models
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The originator of the term Learning Disabilities.
Who is Samuel Kirk?
100
The model that would support the cause of a LD from damage to the brain's left side during an accident.
What is the Brain Damage Model?
100
Language processing disorder that can hinder reading, writing, and spelling.
What is dyslexia?
100
To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities are to be educated with children who are not disabled within the regular classroom.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
100
In this co-teaching model, teachers share in the process of instructing all students.
What is Team Teaching?
200
The "Key Figure" in setting the stage for the study of reading disabilities in the US.
Who is Samuel Orton?
200
The model that supports the cause of LD from incorrect hard-wiring of the brain, causing alterations to how neurons form or interconnect.
What are Errors in Fetal Brain Development?
200
Wide range of learning disabilities involving math.
What is Dyscalculia?
200
The selective placement of special education students in one or more "regular" classroom.
What is mainstreaming?
200
Model in which one educator takes the lead in providing instruction while the second provides class management while assisting individual students as needed.
What is the One-teach, One-Assist Model?
300
The period from 1960 to 1975 in which Learning Disabilities began its emergence as a formal category.
What is the Emergent Period?
300
A "new" science that has given people hope that could help us to identify LD's at a very young age, possibly before birth, and will allow us to begin treatment early on.
What is neuro-informatics?
300
Learning Disability that affects writing and can lead to problems with spelling, poor handwriting, as well as putting thoughts on paper.
What is Dysgraphia?
300
Law that requires children with disabilities to be educated in the LRE appropriate to meet their unique needs.
What is IDEA, as amended in 2004?
300
Co-Teaching model in which the teachers divide the instructional content into segments and present it at separate locations in the classroom, leaving separate teachers responsible for their own content.
What is the Stations Teaching Model?
400
Issues such as the concern over identification procedures, debate over placement options, and denunciation of the validity of LD as a real phenomenon are all consistent under this period.
What is the Turbulent Period?
400
Model in which some researchers believe specific chemicals added to foods can cause learning disabilities.
What is the Organic & Biological Model?
400
Learning Disability in which there is difficulty with planning or programming the motor-speech movements required to produce speech.
What is Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia (DVD)?
400
National law that protects individuals from discrimination based on their disability, forbidding schools, organizations, and employers from denying individuals with disabilities equal opportunities.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
400
Model in which teachers plan instruction jointly but each deliver instruction to only a portion of the class, decreasing the student-to-teacher ratio.
What is the Parallel Teaching Model?
500
The law that gave LD official status as a category eligible for funding for direct services.
What is PL 94-192?
500
The model that suggests developing fetus' and children are vulnerable to neurotoxicants, which may negatively impact the developing brain.
What is Environmental and Taratogen Model?
500
Although not a LD, this medical disorder can potentially have an effect on all areas of cognitive functioning and can interfere with the learning process.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
500
A class action suit in which the main focus of the settlement was that schools must comply with existing federal laws, specifically around issues concerning the LRE.
What is Gaskin vs. PDE?
500
Model in which one teacher selects a small group of students who require instruction that differs from the rest of the class, while the other teacher instructs the remainder of the students in a larger group.
What is the Alternative Teaching Model?
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