Learning Disabilities
True or False: Students with learning disabilities have been found to participate in more peer interactions.
False — fewer peer interactions
True or False: Research has found the children with language disabilities are at risk for academic failure
True
True or False: Research shows that bothy typically and atypically developing children make significant gains when using word processing tools.
False: Research only shows consistent significant gains in children with learning disabilities.
True or False: Research has found that even if a phonological awareness program meets all 8 criterias, it still may not be effective.
False: The more significant predictor in soccessful phonological awareness training is consistent and long-term intervention.
Is the term “learning disabilities” specific to one disorder?
No, Learning disabilities is an umbrella term and meant to be broad and inclusive
True or False: Speech and Language impairments are normally identified AFTER a learning disability has been found.
False: Speech and language impairments because it is more significant for an adult to identify
True or False: Speech Recognition Software does not recognize a child's voice as accurately as an adults.
True
Students are taught how to learn and not what to learn describes what approach?
Strategy Training
Is ADHD a learning disability?
ADHD is not a type of learning disability, but most children with this disorder have learning and social difficulties that are similar to children who are identified as learning disabled.
Children with language difficulties have been found to be high risk for ____?
reading difficulties
The use of word prediction to provide a list of words after a few letters have been entered describes what technological tool?
Word Prompting
An example of _______ is online reading programs that provide an auditory option for students with visual or reading impairments.
Universal Design for Learning
What ways did IDEA used to identify students with learning disabilities?
Standardized testing or IQ tests
Difficulties in skills such as detecting rhyme and identifying sounds is reflective of a deficiency in what skill?
Phonological Awareness
Students who use Speech Recognition Software have been found to improve in what areas? (Name 2)
Word Recognition, Spelling, Reading Comprehension, and Phonological Awareness and Processing
Phonological Awarenes instruction should include both analytic and ______ activities.
Synthetic
What are two characteristics of learning difficulties?
The characteristics of learning difficulties are difficulties in thinking, listening, speaking, reading, spelling, or math.
What are the two main problem areas for students with learning disabilities in terms of semantics?
word finding and the use of figurative language
Name two characteristics of word processing tools that allow students with learning disabilities to spend greater time focused on content.
Grammar Check, Spell Check, Pre-made templates, autocorrect, etc.
Define the term Bacchanalian, then descibe the three steps of the keyword strategy used to define this term.
Bacchanalian= drunkeness