Types of Learning Disabilities
Difficulty in identifying letters and their sounds, reading rate, listening, vocabulary and reading comprehension.
What is dyslexia?
A place for students to report incidents of bullying.
What is a confidential message box?
A summary of the student's current academic, socialization, behavioral, communication and functional skills.
What is a statement of present level of performance?
Students ask themselves who, where, when and how questions.
What is finding the main idea of a story?
High school graduate works as a regular employee with coworkers who do not have a disability.
What is competitive employment?
Advanced reading abilities coupled with significant difficulties in comprehending what one has read, using expressive language, and socializing with others.
What is hyperlexia?
A method to determine the extent of bullying in a school, where, when and how.
What is a student survey?
An inventory of attainable objectives related to student's yearly progress in the general education curriculum.
What is a statement of measurable annual goals?
Students forecast the outcome of a story during the course of reading it.
What is predicting?
High school graduate works with ongoing assistance and services in order to learn how to work independently.
What is supported employment?
Difficulties with idea generation, text organization, sentence structure, vocabulary usage, spelling and grammar.
What is dysgraphia?
A mnemonic based learning strategy that prompts students to manage their anger.
What is CALM?
Supplementary aids, services and supports to help student reach attainable objectives.
What is a statement of the special education and related services?
Students identify parts and subparts of each chapter of a story with the use of roman numerals.
What is outlining?
A person who assists a high school graduate find the right employment or receive the necessary training.
What is a job coach?
Difficulties in discriminating numbers, symbols and signs.
What is dyscalulia?
Professional support provided to both bullies and victims.
What is counseling?
Excused from participating with students without a learning disability.
What is a written explanation of the extent and reason for absence from general classroom and activities?
Students use their artistic talent to create a summary of a story through drawings.
What is visual imagery?
A school provided service which enables all students to transition to work.
What are career education programs?
Difficulties processing nonverbal, visual-spatial information, including body language.
What is a nonverbal learning disability?
Student to student interaction and assistance.
What is a peer support system?
Assistance offered while test taking.
What is a statement of testing accommodations?
Students use the concept of RAP (Read the paragraph, Asking what was the main idea, and Put the story in their own words.)
What is paraphrasing?
Effort undertaken to find employment for all students graduating from high school.
What is career placement services?