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Identifying Students with Learning Disabilities
Evaluating Students with Learning Disabilities
Designing an appropriate IEP
Using Effective Instructional Strategies
Assessing Students' Progress
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What does the term specific learning disability mean?
What is a disorder in 1 or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written
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According the the previous IDEA regulations, what is considered a severe discrepency?
What is one that is statistically significant. Fun Fact: During the 1970's and 1980s, 98% of the states used the discrepancy standard for identifying students as having a learning disability.
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What are some benefits to including the student at their IEP meeting?
What is parents were more positive about the IEP meeting, and participants in it focused more on the student's strengths, interests, and abilities. In addition, student involvement in IEP meetings tends to enhance a student's self-determination. Fun Fact: Despite the potential benefits of student participation, students generally are not involved in their IEP meetings. :(
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What opportunities should a student's IEP team recommend?
What is embedded learning opportunities with other activity interventions.
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What does curriculum-based measurement involve?
It involves directly assessing a student's skills in the content of the curriculum being taught.
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What percentage of all students with disabilities served under IDEA have specific learning disabilities?
What is 47.4%
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How does the current IDEA approach the idea of defining a student to a learning disability? (Hint: 2 part answer)
First, it provided that a state or local educational agency may take into consideration whether a student has a severe discrepancy between achievement and intellectual ability in oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skill,reading comprehension, mathematical calculation, or mathematical reasoning. Second, an agency now may use a process that determines if the student responds to scientific, research-based intervention. Fun Fact: An agency may use the discrepancy standard but are not required to do so by federal law.
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For special needs services to be most effective, teachers, schools, and IEP teams must engage in a curriculum mapping process. What information can be learned by engaging in a curriculum mapping process?
What is the scope and sequence of content being delivered at a given school. Fun Fact: When members of a student's IEP team engage in curriculum mapping, they use the school calendar as an organizer- it is the rather flexible statement of what must occur and when. Also, the curriculum mapping process can identify where in the curriculum students with disabilities can recieve instruction on content from the general curriculum that is based on the students unique learning needs.
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What does the embedded learning opportunity strategy call for teachers?
What is to identify the opportunities that are most salient to the individual learning objectives for each child and embed short, systematic instructional interactions that support the child's goals into existing routines and activities.
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Where were the majority of students with specific learning disabilities placed in 2006?
What is the regular class (80-100% of their time.)
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Difficulties for students with specific learning disabilties often occur in what 7 areas?
What is handwriting, spelling, productivity, text structure, sentence structure, word usage, and composition. Fun Facts: -They may feel overwhelmed by the idea of getting started -Struggle to organize and use mechanics of writing -Struggle to develop their ideas fluently -Have frequent difficulties spelling and constructing written products legibly -Submit written work that is too brief
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What are the six steps of the nondiscriminatory evaluation process for determining the presence of a learning disability?
What is observation, screening, prereferral, referral, nondiscriminatory evaluation procedures and standards, and determination Fun Fact: During the final stage of this evaluation process, the nondiscriminatory multidisciplinary evaluation team works together to determine whether or not a student has a learning disability and needs special education and related services.
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Advance organizers design the curriculum universally-- that is, so all students can benefit. How do advance organizers help students? (Hint: 2 sentence answer)
What is, they help students anticipate the relationship between the prior knowledge and the new curriculum they must master. Advance organizers help students organize and process new material and become more active learners in traditionally passive instructional activites such as lectures and reading.
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What should be among the most frequent classroom-wide interventions that IEP teams consider?
What is differentiating instruction
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What may be the biggest barrier to successful inclusion and positive postsecondary outcomes?
What is their limited social skills.
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What area of the body dysfunctions causing a learning disabilities to occur?
What is the central nervous system.
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Promoters of the nondiscriminatory evaluation process feel as though the discrepancy model is biased towards what type of students?
What is students from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds who score lower on IQ tests. Fun Fact: Other reasons promoters do not like the discrepancy model include the fact that a discrepancy between achievement and IQ frequently cannot be reliably assessed until a student is nearly 9 years old, also discrepancy formulas often vary from state to state causing an unreliable conclusion as to whether or not a student has a learning disability.
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To ease the concern for many students with learning disabilities with their transition from high school to postsecondary education, one solution with this is to do what?
What is to ensure that student with learning disabilities acquire the skills they need to advocate on their own behalf in college. Fun Fact: These skills include; 1. understanding their disability 2. understanding their strengths and limitations 3. learning to succeed depite their disability and learning what accomodations facilitate learning 4. setting goals and learning how to access resources needed to attain those goals 5. acquiring problem-solving skills 6. acquiring self-management skills 7. forming friendships with instructors, university or college disability support staff, friends and mentors.
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What is differentiating instruction?
a logical companion to universal design for learning.
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What is the most controversial issue in the area of specific learning disabilities?
What is test accommodations.
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What should an IEP address besides the student's academic needs?
What is the students social, emotional and behavioral needs.
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An RTI (Resonse to Intervention) involves partnership across what three areas?
What is general and special education as well as partnership wiht related service providers.
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What is critical to success in the general classroom for students with learning disabilities and have strong evidence as scientifically based practices?
what is curriculum adaptations such as advance organizers.
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Learning strategies work especially well for students who have learning disabilities in what basic skill areas?
Areas such as reading, language arts, writing, spelling and math.
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Students with learning disabilities may need what in order to be able to perform according to their highest level on standardized tests.
What is a wide array of accommodations.