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Learning Disabilities
ADHD
ID
Autism Spectrum Disorders
In My Classroom
100
This is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written.
What is a specific learning disability?
100
This neurobehavioral disorder affects 3-5% of all American children and is defined by: * a persistent pattern of inattention and or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequently displayed and is more severe than is typical for individuals at comparable levels of development. * hyperactive-impulsive or inattentive symptoms must have been present before seven years of age. * impairment from the symptoms must be present in at least two settings * clear evidence of interference with developmentally appropriate social, academic or occupational functioning must be present * the disturbance must not occur exclusively during the course of another disability.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
100
This label was used to describe children with intellectual disabilities in many states prior to 2010.
What is mental retardation?
100
This term is used to indicate that the number symptoms of Autism may vary but have several characteristics in common.
What is a spectrum or continuum?
100
When teaching children with dyslexia in my classroom, the best course of action is to use this type of intervention.
What is a research-based reading intervention?
200
This difficulty is primarily related to reading and writing. Children with this specific learning disability have at least average intelligence, do not have general learning difficulties or sensory disabilities and are not socioeconomically disadvantaged.
What is dyslexia or specific reading disability?
200
These are the three types of ADHD
What are ADHD inattentive type, ADHD hyperactive type and ADHD combined type?
200
This intellectual disability includes a chromosomal abnormality in which there is an extra chromosome present on the twenty-first chromosome pair.
What is Down syndrome?
200
When interacting with the parents/families of your students with disabilities, it is important to do this.
What is (various responses):)
300
Children with ADHD often struggle with these aspects of language and literacy development.
What are conversational situations and written expression difficulties?
300
This intellectual disability results from the mother using alcohol or drugs during pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
300
Children with this syndrome share many of the characteristics of autism, however, they are usually relatively intact in language and communication development except in the area of pragmatics.
What is Asperger syndrome?
300
When teaching children with ASD, focus on this to build pragmatic language skills.
What is (various responses)?:)
400
The impaired comprehension and/or use of spoken, written and/or other symbol systems.
What is a specific language impairment.
400
There is a significant overlap (comorbidity) in these two disabilities that often leads to difficulties with learning.
What SLD and ADHD?
400
This law was accepted by President Obama to honor Rosa Marcellino, a girl with Down syndrome and removed the terms "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" from federal health, education, and labor policy and replaced them with people first language "intellectual disability".
What is Rosa's Law?
400
This accommodation uses pictures as the means of fostering meaningful communicative exchanges with children with ASD and other disabilities that include minimal language.
What is Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)?
400
When reading the file of a student on your caseload categorized as ID (IQ below 70 and poor adaptive skills), it is important to remember this.
What is the fact that having a low IQ does not necessarily mean the student can't learn.
500
This Orton-Gillingham approach to teaching reading includes: Phonemic awareness Alphabetic principle (sound/symbol relationship) Decoding Encoding (spelling) Advanced word analysis High frequency/sight word instruction Vocabulary development Fluency
What is the Wilson Reading Program or any other Orton-Gillingham based program?
500
The APA recommends this course of treatment for ADHD.
What are behavioral therapy and medication?
500
This assessment focuses on the collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills that all people learn in order to function in their daily lives.
What is an adaptive assessment?
500
This assessment rating scale is used to identify Autism Spectrum Disorders.
What are the: Gilliam Autism Rating Scales (GARS) Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales (CSBS) Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (MCHAT) Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers and Young Children (STAT)
500
This is what I would do to foster language and literacy development for children in my classroom who struggle with making friends and being accepted by others.
What is (various responses). :)