Key People
Reading
ADHD
Social & Emotional Behavior
Learning & Teaching Theories
100
This Doctor was considered he "Father of Special Education".
Who is Dr. Samuel Kirk?
100
A learning disability that is characterized by difficulties with accurate and or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.
What is Dyslexia?
100
These are the two criterion that a child must exhibit in order to be diagnosed with ADHD combined type.
What is Inattention and Hyperactive-Impulsivity?
100
The term used to define being welcomed by peers.
What is social acceptance?
100
This Approach is based on the premise that environment greatly influences behavior and includes direct instruction, the reinforcement theory, and operant conditioning.
What is the Behavioral Approach?
200
The man who used post-mortem observations of adults with brain injuries. He also has an area of the brain named after him.
Who is Pierre Paul Broca?
200
This term refers to the process of converting print to speech by applying the alphabetic principle.
What is decoding?
200
This was the term used in the 1950's and 1960's to define ADHD.
What is Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MBD)?
200
This is the process which individuals organize their lives in purposeful, flexible, and advantageous ways to meet the demands of multiple environments.
What is Adaptive Behavior?
200
A pattern of thinking about a phenomenon.
What is a Paradigm?
300
This man was the key figure in the study of Reading Disabilities and the International Dyslexia Association.
Who is Samuel Orton?
300
This type of assessment involves examining the student's daily work or administering teacher- constructed tests.
What is informal assessment?
300
This is the category that students with ADHD may be eligible for Special Education Services under IDEA.
What is Other Health Impairments?
300
Any event that follows a behavior and results in maintaining or increasing the probability or rate of behavior.
What is a reinforcer?
300
In this stage of learning, the learner performs the skill in different times and situations.
What is the Generalization Stage?
400
This person did a lot in developing remedial reading programs and the idea of establishing a discrepancy in a child's IQ and actual development.
Who is Marion Monroe?
400
This reading approach uses a comprehensive teachers manual which includes lesson outline, vocabulary, and activities.
What is the Basal Reading Series?
400
These types of medication are frequently used to treat children with ADHD. (Examples: Ritalin, Dexedrine)
What is Psychostimulant Medication?
400
This teaching technique uses reading materials to help students better understand themselves and their problems.
What is Bibliotherapy?
400
This approach to understand learning is based on learning and approaches to promote learning depending on the individual, the place, and the time.
What is Functionalist Approach?
500
He explored brain localization and labeled the disorder sensory aphasia.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
500
This method is based on the idea that student's learn best in several modalities including movements, touch, visual, and auditory.
What is the Multi Sensory Reading Method?
500
This assessment scale is a comprehensive rating assessment of problem behaviors for individuals 3-17 and have yielded the highest effect sizes.
What is the Conner's Rating Scale?
500
These most common used assessment methods include peer nominations, peer ratings, peer assessment, and sociograms.
What are Sociometric Techniques?
500
The key feature of this instruction is a dialogue between teacher and student that provides the learner with just enough support and guidance to enable the student to achieve a goal.
What is Scaffolding?