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Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Brain
Assessment
100
Characterized by difficulty with learning to read fluently and with accurate comprehension despite normal or above-average intelligence, inability to distinguish sounds in spoken words and problems with written symbols.
What is Dyslexia?
100
A neurologically based genetic or congenital disorder in which a person has difficulty learning or comprehending arithmetic, understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, math facts, time, measurement, spatial reasoning and mathematical procedures.
What is Dyscalculia?
100
Neurobehavioral disorder characterized by developmentally inappropriate levels of inattention, impulsivity and/or hyperactivity
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
100
Relationship between a person's character and the morphology of the skull, anatomic character, intelligence and personal attributes equated to the shape of the skull.
What is Franz Joseph Gall's Phrenology?
100
Contrast between ability and achievement, how smart you are and how much you have learned.
What is Severe Discrepancy Model?
200
Reading failure or dyslexia stems from a functional or structural deficit in left hemispheric brain areas associated with processing the sounds of language, impedes acquisition of word recognition skills and decoding abilities.
What is Phonological Processing Deficit?
200
An emotional response to mathematics that causes individuals to experience high levels of apprehensiveness or anxiousness when encountering math tests or math problems.
What is Math Anxiety?
200
Difficulty following directions, sustaining attention, disorganized, makes careless mistakes, apathetic, daydreaming or lost in thought, forgetful, loses things, unmotivated.
What are signs of Inattention?
200
A small proteinaceous infectious disease-causing agent responsible for a number of degenerative brain diseases, including mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, kuru, and an unusual form of hereditary dementia known as Gertsmann-Straeussler-Scheinker disease.
What is Prion?
200
A student who has a disability should have the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled peers, to the greatest extent appropriate, access to the general education curriculum, or any other program that non-disabled peers would be able to access, provided with supplementary aids and services necessary.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
300
Is a task that measures how quickly individuals can name aloud in reference to a visual stimulus such as objects, pictures, colors or symbols and is strong predictor of their later ability to read.
What is Naming-Speed Deficit?
300
Dyscalculia: Lexical, Graphical, Verbal, Ideognostic, Practognostic and Operational.
What are categories or subtypes of Dyscalculia?
300
Difficulty awaiting turns, interrupts, intrudes, blurts out answers, playing quietly, squirmy, fidgety, excessive talking, difficulty remaining seated.
What are signs of Activity-Impulsivity?
300
A wide, flat bundle of neural fibers beneath the cortex in the brain connecting the left and right cerebral hemispheres and facilitates interhemispheric communication.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
300
A continuum of student performance data to continuously inform, monitor and improve student access and response to high-quality core and supplemental instruction/intervention, multi-tiered system of support to improve learning as efficiently, effectively and equitably as possible for ALL students.
What is Response to Instruction and Intervention?
400
A student spells the same word wrong, with different errors within the same writing sample..."when" is misspelled as "wen" and "whan" or "howssis" for "house."
What is Orthographic Deficit?
400
Problems with number sense, figure-ground, counting, spatial relation, visual perception, time and direction, math anxiety and math phobia.
What are characteristics of Dyscalculia?
400
Neurotransmitter imbalance or defects in neural connections, corpus callosum seems smaller, deviation in asymmetry of brain, right frontal lobe seems larger that left than left frontal regions in normal brains, genetics, hypoxia, teratogens.
What is the Etiology of ADHD?
400
Appropriate neuronal positioning is achieved through an active process of migration from the site of neuronal birth to the current target location.
What is Neuronal Migration?
400
Assessing specific components of a learning disability, factors such as mental retardation, blindness, deafness, physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, environmental, economical and cultural must first be checked before the undertaking of an examination.
What are Exclusion Components?
500
A form of paired reading in which a student and tutor read the same text almost simultaneously, sitting side-by-side, the tutor reads a text slightly faster and louder than the student while both follow the text with their fingers.
What is Neurological Impress Method?
500
Sequential instruction that begins by providing students with concrete hands-on activities followed by visual representational activities and finishing with abstract activities.
What is the CRA Model, Concrete-Representation-Abstract?
500
Psychopharmacologic, behavioral and social interventions, social skills training, contingency management techniques, self-regulation strategies, content enhancements, peer tutoring, computer-assisted instruction, daily behavior report cards, home connections.
What are Treatments of Students with ADHD?
500
Slow, laborious speech, sentences are not fluent, trouble with words in speech combining sounds into words, person is aware and can hear themselves, are aware he/she is not making sense when speaking, left frontal lobe.
What is Broca's Aphasia?
500
Screening for data collection, diagnosis to determine specific needs, progress monitoring to assist in data-based decision-making processes and measurement of student outcomes to determine programs effectiveness.
What are Purposes for Assessment?