Legislation by the Numbers
Etiology
Treatment and Educational Approaches
Assessment, Evaluation, and Identification
Famous People
100
The Education of All Handicapped Children Act passed by Congress in 1975.
What is P.L. 94-142
100
Because of advances in neuroscience and neuro-imaging, some studies have identified structural and functional differences in the brains of children with learning disabilites and children without.
What is the Brain Damage Model?
100
Any technology that enables an individual with a disability to compensate for specific deficits. It includes low-tech or high-tech equipment.
What is assistive technology?
100
A significant difference between a child’s current achievement and intellectual potential.
What is a severe discrepancy?
100
This person was most known for leading the U.S. in World War II as an Army General. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps. He was deficient in reading throughout his whole life and had to memorize his lectures just to get by.
Who is George Patton?
200
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act Ammendments passed by Congress in 1986
What is P.L. 99-457
200
A group of birth defects caused by the abnormal migration of neurons in the developing brain and nervous system.
What are Neuronal Migration Disorders?
200
This type of drug is used to treat ADHD. Examples include Ritalin, Adderall, and Focalin.
What are psychostimulants?
200
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 advocates the procedure of teaching all students with evidence-based instructional materials through general education.
What is Response to Intervention?
200
This person is well known as the inventor of the telephone and one of the founders of the National Geographic Society, had dyslexia, poor grades, and a general indifference towards almost everything except science.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 1990.
What is P.L. 101-476
300
Some researchers believe specific chemicals and food colorings added to our food can cause learning disabilities.
What is The Organic and Biological Model?
300
This educational service provides programs and intervention for young children with special needs.
What is early intervention?
300
This is a "wait and fail" model of identifying students with special needs.
What is the IQ-Achievement Discrepancy Model?
300
This person was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and one of the greatest political leaders of the twentieth century. Known for his powerful speeches, it is ironic that he had a stuttering problem and hated school and math.
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 1997
What is P.L. 105-117
400
Exposure to lead, mercury, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and solvents during certain developmental windows may negatively impact the developing brain and contribute to learning and developmental disabilities.
What is The Environmental and Taratogen Model?
400
The teaching of this set of skills that are necessary for meeting the basic social demands of everyday life.
What are social skills?
400
When a child is suspected of having a disability, he or she is tested with appropriate standardized instruments that are free of culterual bias. No one single test can determine eligibility and students must be assessed and tested in their native language.
What is a non-discriminatory evaluation?
400
This person is arguably the greates physicist of all time. He is known for his theory of relativity and E=mc^2. He revolutionized the way we think of the universe and opened up our eyes to the possibilites in front of us.
Who is Albert Einstein?
500
The Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
What is P.L. 108-456
500
Prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal.
What are the three periods for exposures, trauma, complications, etc. that can be linked to a cause of a learning disability?
500
This model of technology emphasizes the idea that every curriculum should include alternatives to make learning accessible and appropriate for individuals with diferent backgrounds, learning styles, abilities, and disabilities in widely varied learning contexts.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
500
At this tier of RTI, children should receive differentiated instruction using a resarch supported curriculum. All children are universally screened in the RTI framework a minimum of three times per year.
What is Tier 1?
500
This person was fired fromthe Kansas City newspaper for not being creative enough and was considered "slow" as a child. he is now considered one of the best known motion picture producers inthe world, and holds the record for the most awards and nominations.
Who is Walt Disney?
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