Learning Styles
Special Ed Acronyms
Theorist
Learning Disabilities
Erickson's & Piaget's Stages/ Age
100
Student who learns better by seeing them.
What is a visual learner?
100
IEP
What is Individual Education Plan?
100
Said that behavior is determined by your environment and that you learn everything by observation.
What is Behavior Theory?
100
Disability that doesn't allow you to focus and you are easily distracted.
What is ADHD?
100
Trust vs. Mistrust / Sensorimotor
What is Infancy?
200
Student who learns better by hearing the material.
What is an auditory learner?
200
ARC
What is Admission Release Committee?
200
Said that culture is the prime determination of cognitive development.
What is Vygotsky's Cognitive Theory?
200
Disability that doesn't allow you to recognize certain symbols and gives you a difficult time reading.
What is Dyslexia?
200
Initiative vs. Guilt / Concrete Operational.
What is Early Childhood?
300
Student who learns better by doing hands on work.
What is a Kinesthetic Learner?
300
PT
What is Physical Therapist?
300
Said that people learn through observation and imitation. That's why kids need role models.
What is Social Learning Theory?
300
Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt / Preoperational
What is a Toddler?
400
Student who needs special education and related services in order to realize their full potential.
What is an Exceptional Learner?
400
OT
What is Occupational Therapist?
400
Said that by certain ages you should have already developed a certain social skill.
What is Psychosocial Theory?
400
Disability when student had a difficult time forming letters and being legible.
What is Dysgraphia?
400
Identity vs. Role Confusion / Formal Operational.
What is Adolescence?
500
Suggested by Howard Gardner. Said that intelligence is not a single thing but is made up of 7 different abilities.
What is Multiple Intelligences?
500
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Committee?
500
Focused more on children rather than adults. Said that children are born with very basic mental structure.
What is Piaget's Cognitive Theory?
500
motor coordination disability also known as Sensory Integration Disorder.
What is Dyspraxia?
500
Integrity vs. Despair / Formal Operational.
What is Older Adulthood?
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