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Cognitive-Literacy
100
A physical activity normally performed by babies, which when practiced daily for several months as part of a specialized occupational therapy program, is reputed to significantly improve or eliminate many learning disabilities and symptoms of ADHD.
What is crawling?
100
The type of self-esteem that is stable and long lasting and provides a secure foundation for future growth.
What is earned self-esteem?
100
The unwritten rules of the school.
What is the hidden curriculum?
100
Use easy-to-manipulate concrete objects, such as placing two sticks over five sticks, to effectively teach these.
What are fractions?
100
This intervention helps students key into the important information and see the relationships among concepts and related information in a visual format.
What is a graphic organizer?
200
A movement based program developed by a reading specialist based on 26 physical activities that are said to activate the brain for optimal storage and retrieval of information, significantly helping learning disabilities.
What is Brain Gym?
200
Studies have found that 50% of children under age 15 who committed suicide also were diagnosed with this.
What is a learning disability?
200
An innovative strategy where an adult assists a socially deficient child to improve social skills by jointly analyzing social errors that a child makes and designing alternative strategies.
What is a Social Autopsy?
200
Improving mathematical comprehension by incorporating writing activities into math class.
What is directed journaling?
200
This intervention device can be used to help students remember key information or steps in a learning strategy.
What is a mnemonic device?
300
Botanically based substances containing volatile natural compounds which, when inhaled, are reported to reduce learning disabilities by stimulating parts of the brain involved in learning.
What are Essential Oils?
300
So much emphasis is spent by teachers remediating and diagnosing learning disabilities, but more time needs to be spent on this.
What is emotional support and/or self-esteem building?
300
Rejected, ignored, controversial, and popular.
What are the 4 types of kids?
300
Plastic bears, counter chips, sticks and number lines illustrate these strategies.
What are counting strategies?
300
The teacher, or expert, models or demonstrates how they approached a task by speaking aloud about the strategy or strategies they are using.
What is a “think aloud"?
400
Brisk exercise sometimes referred to as cardio that increases the need for oxygen and is proven to speed learning and improve blood flow to the brain.
What is Aerobic Exercise?
400
The rate of clinically depressed hospitalized children with learning disabilities is significantly lower or higher than that of the general population.
What is significantly higher?
400
Communication, problem-solving, decision making, self-management, and peer relations abilities that allow one to initiate and maintain positive social relationships with others.
What are social skills?
400
The teacher pairs every student in the class by placing a stronger math-performing student with a weaker math-performing student.
What is PALS math?
400
The student is taught to make a mental image of what is read. He/she is taught to pretend there’s a movie screen at the back of his/her brain and “sees” the text come alive as he/she reads.
What is visualization?
500
Moving rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps, shown to stimulate a wide variety of brain systems to improve learning potential.
What is dancing?
500
Teachers who offer praise and help to boost self-confidence will get this.
What is a happy, successful student?
500
Skills necessary for effective interpersonal functioning. They include both verbal and nonverbal behaviors that are socially valued and are likely to elicit a positive response from others. For example, peer acceptance, teacher acceptance, inclusion success, and post school success.
What is Social Competence?
500
Using a "catchy" phrase such as "Around the tree and around the tree, that's the way we make a three is an effective intervention.
What is number recognition?
500
This intervention provides support for students through continuous self-assessments of their work.
What are checklists and/or rubrics?