This is the period in history from 1975 to 1985 when there was a relative stability in the field of learning disabilities.
What is the Solidification Period?
100
This is the period of pregnancy right before and after birth.
What is perinatal period?
100
This is a unit of sound that combines together with other sounds to form words.
What is a phoneme?
100
This part of the brain controls problem solving, decision making, consciousness, purposeful behaviors and executive functions.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
100
The Feingold Diet recommends eating this fruit instead of apples during the initial weeks.
What is pears?
200
The term used in the 1870s to describe children who weren't able to read, even with perfect eyesight.
What is word blindness?
200
This man used mapping of the brain's electrical activity to find characteristic differences in the brains of those diagnosed with dyslexia.
Who is Dr. Duffy?
200
The study of correct spelling according to established usage, aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words and the method of representing language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
What is orthography?
200
This type of behavior reinforcement is used by giving out edibles, prizes and/or stickers for appropriate behavior.
What is tangible reinforcement?
200
This man promoted the idea that speech functions reside in the left side of the brain.
Who is Pierre Paul Broca?
300
This University of Arizona professor known as the "father of special education" introduced the term Learning Disability in 1963.
Who is Samuel Kirk?
300
The belief that learning disabilities are caused by specific chemicals and food colorings that are added to foods.
What is the Organic Model?
300
This type of phonics instruction breaks down the words into phonemes and blends the individual sounds together.
What is synthetic phonics?
300
This subtype of ADD is characterized by difficulty waiting for turns, interrupting, difficulty remaining seated and quiet and excessive squirming and talking.
What is predominately hyperactive impulsive type?
300
Stopping in a story and anticipating what is going to happen next based on what you know is using this reading comprehension strategy.
What is predicting?
400
This approach to reading instruction would have a child see the letter A, say the letter A, sound it and write it in the air all at the same time.
What is the Orton-Gillingham Approach?
400
This is the brains ability to allow neurons to compensate for injury and disease and adjust activities in response to new situations or changes in the environment?
What is neuroplasticity?
400
An adult and a child are sitting side by side reading the same passage at the same time out loud. They are using this method of reading instruction.
What is the Neurological Impress Method?
400
If a person has problems with cognitive processes such as focus and attention, they could have a decrease in this chemical that plays a key role in proper functioning of the cortex.
What is dopamine?
400
If you believe that if the area above the ear is enlarged you are going to be a destructive person, you believe in this area of study.
What is phrenology?
500
A man experiences blunt force trauma to this area of tthe head, now makes no sense when he speaks and has trouble understanding what is being said to him.
What is the Wernicke's Area?
500
This type of classroom would allow students to learn how to make secondary colors with primary colors by giving them red, yellow and blue paint and letting them try different combinations on their own.
What is a brain friendly classroom?
500
When school decides that student with dyslexia has letter naming speed deficit paired with phonological processing deficit are both linked, they are using this hypothesis.
What is the Double Deficit Hypothesis?
500
The type of treatment that a student who that takes medication, receives counseling and whose family has a strong connection with the school is receiving.
What is multimodal?
500
The type of dyscalculia a person has when they have difficulty with comparing amounts of manipulatives.