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My Brain Hurts
Symptom Finder
It’s the Law!
The disability is….. give me a classroom strategy
Assess Me
100
The left side of the typical brain is slightly bigger than the right side of the typical brain. The right side and left side of the brain of a dyslexic’s brain is almost even or this “S” word.
What is symmetrical?
100
Symptoms include: difficulty with accurate and/or fluent word recognition, poor spelling, and decoding abilities.
What is dyslexia?
100
IDEA stands for...
What is The Individuals with Disabilities Act?
100
Dyslexia
What is (answers may include): Analytic phonics such as call to ball, synthetic phonics such as breaking words apart into individual sounds,using a multisensory method like tracing letters in shaving cream while making the sound, the Neurological Impress Method, reciprocal teaching strategies like summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting, story mapping, using more white space between words, colored paper, using Sans Font, and a line tracker?
100
This tier in the Response to Intervention Model in which all children are screened.
What is tier 3?
200
When looking at the brain of a dyslexic, this AREA of the brain tends to be bigger than that of a non-impaired brain.
What is the Broca’s Area?
200
Symptoms include: problems with early number sense, difficulty separating elements of contrast, and unable to accurately count objects.
What is dyscalculia?
200
IDEA states that every child has the right to be educated. Some children may be education in the general classroom, with a paraprofessional, special education room, or an alternative school. This environment best for the child to be educated in.
What is The Least Restrictive Environment?
200
Dyscalculia
What is (answers may include): CRA Sequence which means moving from hands on manipulatives, to representational, to abstract, direct teaching which involves modeling, and then scaffolding the students, the use of diagrams, graphs, and patterns?
200
An IQ score of 90-109.
What is average intelligence?
300
Executive functioning is very important in everyday functioning of life, such as organizational skills. This lobe of the brain controls executive functioning.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
300
Symptoms for this very specific disability include: difficulty talking about mathematical concepts. They may be able to read numbers, remember their names, or recognize numbers, but not be able to talk about them.
What is verbal dyscalculia?
300
A common disorder that is diagnosed by a health professional, and not by the school psychologist. This disorder is not considered a specific learning disability under IDEA, but students may qualify under IDEA other health impairments or a 504 Service Agreement.
What is ADHD?
300
Helping the behavior of a child with ADHD
What is (answers may include):Reinforcement such as direct, token, activity, and, social reinforcers, having clear and simple rules, Conducting effective lessons which include being predictable, supporting participation, using audiovisual materials, checking student performance, asking probing questions, helping students correct their own mistakes, helping the student focus, asking follow up questions, lowering noise level, dividing work into smaller units, highlighting key points, using assistive technology, and using cooperative learning styles?
300
A discrepancy of 30 points between these two tests may qualify a child for a learning disability.
What is IQ test and Achievement Test?
400
Some scientists believe an imbalance of neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin cause this disorder.
What is ADHD?
400
Symptoms include: difficulty following instructions, losing things necessary for a task, appears disorganized, and appears spacey.
What is ADD/-H?
400
The school has the responsibility to make sure all children with disabilities living within the boundary of the school district are identified and serviced with special education.
What is Child Find?
400
Helping the child with ADHD in math computation.
What is (answers may include): Patterns in math, partnering activities,using mnemonics such as “please excuse my dear aunt sally, real life examples of money skills such as a class store, color coding arithmetic symbols, board games, and “magic minute drills?”
400
A complaint of the discrepancy model.
What is (answers include): Students can struggle for years without being identified, does little to inform classroom instruction, and has been called "wait and fail" method?
500
Show me how I can make the Wernick’s Area of the brain work.
What is by listening to people speak or reading an essay?
500
Symptoms include: difficulty awaiting turn, interrupts, fidgets, and excessive talking.
What is ADD/+H?
500
Part of IDEA states that "no child should be denied entrance into the public school."
What is Zero Reject?
500
Helping the child with ADHD in Language Arts and Reading Comprehension.
What is (answers may include): Silent reading time, follow-along reading, partner reading activities, storyboards, storytelling, playacting, and board games?
500
A complaint of the RtII Model.
What is (answers include):May not be feasible for large-scale adoption, teachers may have to implement research supported instruction without proper training, no thresholds about how students move from tier to tier, does not include IQ tests, and fails to document underachievement/unexpected learning failure?