Learning Exceptionalities
Special Education & Gifted
RTI
Inclusion
Effective Strategies
100
Normal Intelligence (or even gifted) but a discrepancy with performance.
What is a learning disability?
100
A study found that gifted children were larger, stronger, & more coordinated than other children and became better adjusted and more emotionally stable than other adults.
What is Terman's study?
100
Response to Intervention
What is RTI?
100
A legal basis for allowing students with disabilities to be included in the regular classroom
What is the least restrictive environment (a provision of IDEA)?
100
Avoid finishing a student's sentences.
What helps a student with a mild speech disorder?
200
Impulsive actions & difficulty focusing
What is ADHD?
200
Exploratory activities, individual and small group investigations of real problems, and group training activities
What are enrichment programs for gifted students?
200
Tier 1 (prevention) is teaching these students: strategies, using cooperative learning, and applying classroom management strategies.
What is the whole-class?
200
Mainstreaming
What is another name for inclusion?
200
Teach social skills
What can you do to help someone who is withdrawn, immature, or has a form of autism ?
300
Mild speech disorders may not be a concern.
What often improves with time?
300
All students can benefit from enriched educational experiences.
What is a criticism of enrichment programs designed for gifted students?
300
Provide the 15% of students with individual assistance and small-group tutoring, targeting their needs, rather than consider special education
What is Tier 2 (Immediate Intervention)?
300
Special ed. students who will spend most of their day in the general education classroom.
What is a student with a mild disability or a learning disability?
300
A program that is research based and helps learning disabled students feel socially accepted in the regular classroom.
What is Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD)?
400
A student who seems anxious and depressed and these grow steadily worse over the time.
What is an emotional disorder?
400
A legal document (written by teachers, psychologists, staff & parents)identifying student eligibility and setting annual goals and short-term objectives
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
400
This percentage of students have not made progress through Tier 1 or Tier 2 methods and need intensive intervention. Tier 3 strategies are similar to Tier 2 except in intensity and duration before assessing students for special education.
What is 5%?
400
Many students who are assigned to special education classes will attend these classes with nondisabled students.
What is music, art, and choir?
400
A teacher makes an adaption in the way the material is presented on a written assignment without changing the task.
What is format adaption?
500
Vision that is significantly narrower than someone with normal vision.
What is visual impairment?
500
A document written (for adolescents with special needs before their 17th birthday) to anticipate needs as he/she makes the transition from school to work (and adult life).
What is an Individualized Transition Plan (ITP)?
500
RTI is intended to replace the IQ - performance discrepancy currently used to identify students as learning disabled.
What are methods used before referring a student to special education?
500
Research shows that individuals with intellectual disabilities learn more when placed in these classrooms.
What are regular education classrooms?
500
Use peer tutoring or cooperative learning
What is a way to help a special ed. student adjust socially to your classroom?