Definitions & Prevalence
A disorder of processing that causes difficulty in academics.
What is a learning disability?
The part of IDEA that requires the school to exclude deficits in hearing, sight, teaching, etc. as possible causes of a student's difficulties with achievement.
What is the exclusion clause?
A big difference between a students's intellectual skills and one or more areas of achievement.
What is a significant discrepancy?
Likely to be below average in all academics
What is typical for a student with an Intellectual Disability?
What research shows is the best kind of instruction in reading for all children, but especially for students with LD
What is phonics instruction?
A deficit in both cognitive skills and adaptive behavior
What is an intellectual disability?
Genetics
What can cause LD or ID?
Maine's law for Special Education
What is Chapter 101?
Deficits in one or two academic areas
What is typical of Learning Disabled students?
The most common academic problem area for students with Learning Disabilities.
What is reading?
About 5%
What is the prevalence for LD in school age children?
Prenatal problems such as the mother using drugs or alcohol.
What can cause LD or ID?
Measures of both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior.
How do you assess for an Intellectual Disability?
Curriculum that is strong on concrete examples and hands on learning
What curriculum is best for students with ID?
Personal expectation of failure that causes motivational problems for students with ID.
What is a Failure Set?
About 1%
What is the prevalence for ID in school age children?
They are correlated but do not directly cause ID.
What is true about psychosocial factors, such as poverty, maternal education level, and school attendance?
The standards of maturation, learning, personal independence, or social responsibility expected for the age level.
What is Adaptive Behavior?
Regular classroom placement for the majority of the school day
What placement do most LD students have?
Causes frustration and embarrassment for students with learning disabilities
What is the result of thinking students with LD are not intelligent?
A way to show respect for the identity of persons who have a disability
What is person first language?
Trisomy 21
What causes Down Syndrome?
A disability in which the student has average to above average intelligence
What is a Learning Disability?
They have trouble generalizing (applying learned information to new situations).
What do students with Intellectual Disabilities have difficulty with?
Memory deficits, meta-cognition deficits, perceptual differences, motor skill and coordination problems.
What deficit areas other than academics might be present in students with a Learning Disability?