Defining
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, what is the percentage of males to females who have a learning disability.
What is 2/3 are male, and 1/3 are female?
The percentage of students with learning disabilities have reading challenges
What is approximately 80%?
The percentage of students with Learning Disabilities who are in the regular classroom 80-100% of the time
What is 70% of students?
A requirement of an IEP is
What is to provide research-based supplementary aids and services that will enable students to make progress in the general education curriculum?
There are five mnemonic strategies for addressing different genres of writing. They are
What is
Story Writing
Narrative, expository, and persuasive writing
Revising
Taking a writing competency test
Reading Books, making notes, and writing about what is learned
The inclusionary standard for a learning disability is
What is such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain function, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia?
What is difficulty memorizing math facts and retrieving facts when needed?
An appropriate way to help a student who is turning in generally poor work.
What is put the students in a cooperative learning group with classmates strong in academics and social skills?
The Self-Regulated Strategy Development for Teaching Writing is
What is a research-based strategy used in a variety of academic areas; its major application has been to teach students how to write. Self-Regulated strategy was originally developed for students with learning disabilities?
The percentage of students in regular class 0-40% of the time
What is 5%?
The exclusionary standard for a Learning Disability is
What is a learning problem that is primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities if of intellectual disability, of emotional disturbance, or of environment, cultural, or economic disadvantage?
Three different causes for Learning Disabilities are
What is neurological mechanisms, genetics, and environmental causes?
An appropriate way to help a student who is giving up on areas where they are weak.
What is give the student an opportunity to tutor either their peers or other students in areas that are the students strength?
RTI Model
What is a three tier approach...
The first tier involves all students, the second tier is a small group of students who need more help, and the third tier is for individual students who need help individually with more resources?
CBM stands for
What is a curriculum-based measurement?
The definition of Learning Disabilities According to IDEA is
What is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written. The disorder may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations?
Working Memory is
What is how students process information in order to remember it?
The percentage of students with learning disabilities that spend 40-79% of the time in class.
What is 23%?
The Orton-Gillingham principles of explicit intervention include
What is
-Sequential skill building so that students learn simpler skills before progressing to moderate and complex skills.
-Mastery of skills so that student responses become automatic
-Overlearning through many opportunities for repetition, practice, and success
-Regular progress monitoring to document students' progress in learning and generalizing rules.
It is important for students with Learning Disabilities to have different social interactions with students their age. A way to help them is with Peer Partnerships where students
The prevalence rate of Learning Disabilities is
What is 35% of all students with disabilities served under IDEA have a specific learning disability?
Phonemic analysis is
What is demonstrating sound-simple awareness that leads to being able to break down words into their basic phonemic parts?
The percentage of students who spend all of their time in a different setting rather than in a regular classroom.
What is 2%?
The stages for writing and self-regulation consists of six stages. They are
What is
Develop Background Knowledge
Discuss It
Model It
Memorize it
Support It
Demonstrate independent performance?
IDEA offer three options for identifying learning disabilities. They are
What is
-the state of local education agency may take into consideration whether a student has a severe discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement in oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skill, reading comprehension, mathematical calculation, or mathematical reasoning.
-An agency may now use a process to determine if a student responds to scientific, research-based intervention. (RTI)
-the regulations for implementing IDEA state that the identification of student as having a learning disability "may permit the use of alternative research based procedures".