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Learning Disabilities
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Who came up with the term ‘learning disabilities’?
Who is Sam Kirk and others
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What is the definition of a learning disability?
What is a condition that can cause significant problems both at school and in life.
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What is an instructional accommodation that teachers use?
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
100
What is it called when a students repeatedly fails and becomes dependent on others?
What is Learned Helplessness
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What test was used to identify individual’s strengths, weaknesses, learning styles & learning preferences?
What is Illinois test of Psycholinguistic (ITPA)
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What is the definition of General Unexpected Underachievement?
What is overall low academic performance, general school failure.
200
What is the purpose of Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)? & What is one key feature?
What is to give these students a plan and methods for success. What is advance organizer or mnemonics.
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What are the three types of ‘thinking skills’? & How would you perform one of them?
What is classifying/chunking, associating, & sequencing.
300
What was Marianne Frostig theory about visual perception?
What is her notion was that if visual perceptual skills were enhanced, reading abilities would also show improvement.
300
What is the definition of Reading/Learning Disabilities? & What is “on the screen” film that portrays the disability?
What is reading performance both below that of classmates and below what is expected on the basis of the students’ other abilities; most common type of learning disabilities. “On the screen” film is ‘In Her Shoes.’
300
Give 3 benefits of how technology can help students with learning disabilities?
What is augment an individual strengths. What is compensate for the affects of disabilities. What is provide alternative modes of performing tasks. What is help students with learning disabilities participate more fully in the general education curriculum. What is create active learning environments. What is teach them how to search for and access information from the internet.
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Is it TRUE or FALSE that most students with learning disabilities are unable to transfer their learning to novel situations or extend their learning of one skill to similar skills?
What is TRUE
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Give one example of a FAD dealing with autism spectrum
What is have those with learning disabilities use crawling exercises to repattern or retrain their brains. What is special diets or plants on students’ desks improve academic and behavioral performances.
400
5% to 8% of all students have what learning disability? & Define what that disability is.
What is Mathematics/Learning Disabilities is when mathematics performance both below that of classmates and below what is expected on the basis of the student’s other abilities; most often co-occurs with reading/learning disabilities.
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What is one benefit of having students with learning disabilities collaborate with their general educational peers?
What is they often share the hopes and dreams of their classmates and have a set goal for themselves of continuing their education at either a community college or a four-year college or university.
400
What are two general reasons that students have difficulties developing social competence?
What is relationship among learning disabilities, language impairments, pragmatics, & social competence. What is the downwards spiral of academic failure to positive peer relationships.
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What is process/product debate? & How was it resolved?
What is one group promoted instruction directed at improving students’ perceptual abilities to improve their academic performance. It was resolved when Don Hammill and Steve Larsen’s research analysis showed that perceptual approached were seldom effective in teaching academic skills but that direct instruction, or explicitly teaching academic skills, makes a difference in learning outcomes.
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What is Resistant to Treatment? & What is estimated about the prevention procedures that are in place within schools?
What is Resistant to treatment is insufficiently responsive to standard instruction on the general education classroom; requiring sustained, intensive, explicit instruction that is monitored for adequate progress frequently. It is estimated that no matter what prevention procedures are in place, students with learning disabilities will always comprise some 2% to 6% of the school population.
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What are the four general steps used to assess an individual’s response to intervention (RTI)? & Explain one of those steps.
What is universal screening, primary prevention & early intervening services, multitiered instructional services, & assessment for or identification of learning disabilities.
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What are two ways that teachers can help students with learning disabilities make friends? & Give an example of each.
What is explicitly teach- sharing skills or rules on the playground. What is pair with a class buddy-match students with similar interests and change pairs once a month.