Key Terms
Students With Learning Disabilities
Types of Learning Disabilities
100

A student’s response to instructional interventions that have been determined to be effective through scientifically based research is...

Response Intervention

100

Is hyperactivity commonly linked to children with learning disabilities?

Yes.

100

What is a condition in which one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language are deficient?

Learning disability

200

An agreement that if one party behaves in a certain way, the other will provide an award.

Behavioral Contract

200

What percentage of students with learning disabilities have reading difficulties?

90%

200

What severe type of learning disability impairs the ability to read

Dyslexia

300

The act of thinking knowing or processing information

Cognition

300

What is important for a college student who has a learning disability?

Having an attitude of resourcefulness and confidence in solving problems and having a great support network.

300

What type of assessment is when a persons performance is compared with the average of a larger group?

Norm-referenced assessment

400

A carefully designed comprehensive academic core to which a very large proportion of students with learning disabilities will respond to.

Three-Tiered Service Triangle

400

What symptoms show a physician that a child may have a learning disability? 

Serious developmental delay or hyperactivity.

400

How many years may a student with learning disabilities find themselves behind their peers on academic achievement?

About 2-4 years.

500

What is it called when the district waits until the students fails before the student will qualify for special education services?

Severe Discrepancy

500

Name four psychological processes a specific learning disability may imperfect

listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations

500

A condition resulting in difficulties distinguishing the sounds of language

Auditory processing disorder