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Eminent People with Learning Disabilities
The Legal System's Impact on Inclusion
What SLD or LD Am I?
Terminology
Assessment
100
He was fired from the Kansas City newspaper for not being creative enough and was considered “slow” as a child. He is now considered one of the best known motion picture producers in the world, and holds the record for the most awards and most nominations.
Who is Walt Disney
100
On December 4, 2004, President George W. Bush signed into law that students with disabilities must be educated in the LRE to the maximum extent appropriate with the use of supplementary aids and services.
What is IDEA
100
Symptoms include: difficulty with accurate and/or fluent word recognition, poor spelling and decoding abilities
What is dyslexia
100
Give some examples of the LEA.
What is the general classroom, with a paraprofessional, special education room, or an alternative school. The environment best for the child to be educated in.
100
There are two tests used to qualify a child for a learning disability. Name these two tests.
What is IQ test and Achievement Test
200
Arguably the greatest physicist of all time. Known for his theory of relativity and E=mc2. He revolutionized the way we think of the universe and opened up our eyes to the possibilities in front of us.
Who is Albert Einstein
200
The Pennsylvania Department of education settled a case by agreeing that all students with intellectual disabilities should be identified, evaluated, and placed in an appropriate program of public education.
What is PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
200
Considered to be a mild disability regardless of the severity of the learning problem.
What is a learning disability
200
This new science is influencing the way we think about the brain.
What is nuero-informatics
200
A model that has been called the "wait and fail" method?
What is discrepency model
300
Well known as the inventor of the telephone and one of the founders of National Geographic Society, had dyslexia, poor grades, and a general indifference towards almost everything except science.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
300
The significance of Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia.
What is the decision found that schools' financial limitations were not a valid argument for denying educational services to student's with disabilities. The case is important because it establised that schools must provide services based on the needs of students, not the schools' ability to pay for the services.
300
A child who struggles with handwriting and holding a pencil.
What is dysgraphia
300
The term for Congenital Word Blindness
What is strephosymbilia
300
This model fails to document underachievement / unexpected learning failure. There are no thresholds about how students move from tier to tier and does not inclue IQ tests.
What is RtII
400
Was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and one of the greatest political leaders of the twentieth century. Known for his powerful speeches it’s ironic that he had a stuttering problem and hated school and math.
Who is Winston Churchill
400
The original federal special education law known as P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) was passed in 1975 and established many basic rights for students with disabilities. The most important right ensured by this law ....
What is Free Appropriate Public Education(FAPE)
400
Describe dyscalculia
What is A neurologically based disorder of mathematical abilities. It originates as a genetic or congenital disorder of the brain and causes a discrepancy between an individual’s general cognitive level and mathematical abilities. Difficulty with math computation or application.
400
Define: Neuronal migration disorders(NMD's)
What is a group of birth defects caused by the abnormal migration of neurons in the developing brain and nervous system.
400
This tier in the Response to Intervention Model in which all children are screened.
What is tier 3
500
He was most known for leading the U.S. in World War II as an Army General. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps. He was deficient in reading throughout his whole life and had to memorize his lectures just to get by.
Who is George Patton
500
This U.S. Court of Appeals decision upheld a district court's ruling that school districts must provide students with disabilities with reasonable accomodations, including a full range of services and supports, within the genral education environment to the maximum extent appropriate. The case also established that students with disabilities cannot be excluded from the genral education classes simply because of differences in learning needs.
What is Oberti v. Board of Education of the Borough of Clementon School District
500
A subtype of dyscalculia where an individual has difficulty retrieving arithmetic facts.
What is semantic memory
500
The process of administering a test under uniform conditions to each child who is to be tested.
What is Standardization
500
This first intelligence test became the basis for the intelligence tests still in use today.
What is the Binet-Simon Scale