Educational Services
Program Factors for Students with Learning Disabilities
Theories
Teaching Practices
Medical Conditions
100
This term means that students with disabilities should be educated with students without disabilities.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
100
This is an educational approach in which general and special educators work in a co-active and coordinated fashion to jointly teach heterogeneous groups of students in educationally integrated settings.
What is Cooperative Teaching Approach?
100
This is a complex way of looking at all aspects of instruction- from classroom organization and management to the quality of teacher-student interactions.
What is Direct Instruction?
100
This is instruction that enables the student to work on appropriate tasks over time under conditions that motivate.
What is Individualized Instruction?
100
This is a specific learning disability that is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilites.
What is Dyslexia?
200
This is a person who usually visits the school periodically and focuses on teaching skills and special materials.
What is an Itinerant Teacher?
200
This approach focuses on meeting the needs of students with disabilities within the general class before considering formal special education services and more segregated placements.
What is a teachers-helping-teachers approach?
200
This approach uses direct observation and recoding of a students performance in the school curriculum as a basis for obtaining information to make instructional decisions.
What is Curriculum-based assessment?
200
This type of motivation comes from within the individual such as the desire to read automotive magazines.
What is Internal motivators?
200
This term refers to a child who suffers impairments due to maternal alcohol intake.
What is Fetal alcohol syndrome?
300
This term means nothing more than moving a child out of both special education self-contained classrooms and pull-out programs and putting him/her in a "regular" education classroom.
What is mainstreaming?
300
This is an interactive process that enables people with diverse expertise to generate creative solutions to mutually defined problems.
What is a Collaborative Consultation?
300
This is a term used to describe consequences that increase the probability that a behavior will occur again.
What is positive reinforcement?
300
This is motivation that comes from within the environment such as parental pressure to do homework.
What is External Motivators?
300
The diagnostic criteria for this medical condition indicates that this disorder must have persisted for at least 6 months with onset no later than 7 years of age and the symptoms must be present in two or more situations such as home, work, or school.
What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
400
This is a large-scale, full-time mainstreaming program in which students who are nondisabled, disabled, and at risk are integrated in the general classroom.
What is the Adaptive Learning Environments Model (ALEM)?
400
This is designed to support the regular education teacher who needs strategies and support for students who exhibit academic, emotional, or behavioral difficulties. The goal of this is to maximize the student's success in the regular education classroom thereby decreasing the probability that a student will be referred to special education.
What is a Teacher Assistance Team (TAT)?
400
This is information commonly thought of as concepts and facts.
What is declarative knowledge?
400
This refers to software or other technologies that are designed to provide instruction, enhance curriculum, or practice specific skills.
What is Computer-assisted instruction?
400
This is the most frequently found chromosomal variation in males XXY. Males with this condition typically experience reading and language problems as well as poor motor coordination and have a tendency to be withdrawn.
What is Klinefelter Syndrome?
500
Madeleine Will, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the Reagan administration, and other educators promoted a system of service delivery to special education students referred to as this.
What is Regular Education Initiative (REI)?
500
In this type of instruction students are expected to review and work on activities that are practice skills from previously taught content.
What is Limited Teacher-Engagement Instruction?
500
This cognitive approach has been associated most frequently with learning disabilities and has historical significance in the study of interventions.
What is the specific abilities approach?
500
This represents an instructional arrangement in which peers work independently.
What is Cooperative Learning?
500
This is an inherited form of mental retardation that involves a chromosomal anomaly associated with a breakage of the X chromosome, and is linked to learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, speech and language deficits, and behavior problems.
What is Fragile X Syndrome?
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