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Causation Theories
Dyslexia
Brain Waves
Dyscalculia
Legal Issues
100
Exact causation cannot be pin-pointed, leading to controversy. Most disabilities are not easily identifiable.
What are hidden disabilities?
100
A visual-auditory task that involves obtaining meaning from symbols
What is reading?
100
The term first introduced in 1963 by Dr. Samuel Kirk
What is learning disability?
100
Difficulty understanding and applying mathematical procedures.
What is procedural memory?
100
No child shall be denied entrance into public schools
What is zero reject?
200
A pioneer in the method of mapping brain electrical activity.
Who was Dr. Duffy?
200
The area of oral language that relates to the ability to think about the sounds in a word rather than just the meaning of the word
What is phonological awareness?
200
An area of the brain located in the inferior left frontal lobe; responsible for speech
What is Broca'a area?
200
The inability to operate with symbols or numbers
What is Intermediate dyscalculia?
200
The school has the responsibility to make sure all children living within the boundary of the school district are identified and serviced with special education services if necessary
What is child find?
300
Complex activity that can impact a child's ability to learn. Problems here can lead to more severe types of problems
What is neuronal migration?
300
The inability to retrieve rapidly the spoken referent for visual stimuli.
What is naming speed deficit?
300
Confusion, because of reversals, in the memory images of symbols resulting in a failure of association between the visually presented stimulus and its concept
What is strephosymbolia?
300
The inability to comprehend instruction and failure to master the skills of an operation.
What is qualitative dyscalculia?
300
When a child is suspected of having a disability he/she is tested with appropriate standardized instruments that are free of cultural bias
What is non-discriminatory evaluation?
400
A group of birth defects caused by the abnormal migration of neurons in the developing brain and nervous system
What are neuronal migration disorders?
400
Refers to patterns in written language such as letters that occur in certain positions within words and letters that occer together regularly.
What is orthographic structure?
400
Process based on the child's response, which includes documentation that: the student received high quality instruction in the general education setting, research-based interventions were provided, and the student's progress was regularly monitored
What is Response to Intervention?
400
Difficulty with performing mathematical operations or calculations.
What is operational dyscalculia?
400
The first intelligence test, called this, became the basis for the intelligence tests still used today.
What is the Binet-Simon Scale?
500
A deficiency assosiated with the part of the brain that connects the two hemispheres
What is agenesis of the Corpus Callosum?
500
The VAKT technique refers to these four terms
What is visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile?
500
A process that examines whether a child exhibits a pattern of strengths and weaknesses, relative to intellectual ability as defined by a severe discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement, or relative to age or grade
What is Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses?
500
A person who has trouble with tasks that require an understanding of mathematical ideas and relationships; not limited to oral or written understanding has this.
What is ideognostic dyscalculia?
500
A change in behavior or performance as a function of intervention
What is Response to intervention or RTI?