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Dyscalculia
Dyslexia
Famous People with Learning Disabilities
Name that Learning Disability
100
The man who is considered to be the Father of Special Education.
What is Dr. Samuel Kirk?
100
This subtype is the difficulty understanding and applying mathematical procedures.
What is Procedural Memory?
100
This term refers to 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?
100
Fired from the Kansas City newspaper for not being creative enough and was known as being "slow" as a child. He holds the record for the most awards and the most nominations for motion picture producers.
Who is Walt Disney?
100
Olivia is a second grader that struggles with language and reading. She has difficulties with fluent word recognition, had poor spelling and decoding abilities. She has a hard time with blending sounds together to read words and confuses words that sound alike.
What is Dyslexia?
200
Adolf Kussamaul used this term to describe children that could not read but their eyesight was perfect.
What is word blindness?
200
This student had this type of Dyscalculia. Tyler can read and write numbers but is unable to talk about them or recognize them. When his teacher asked, he is unable to talk about mathematical concepts of relationships.
What is Verbal Dyscalculia?
200
Students that have difficulty with phonological awareness can have difficulty with this, also known as the knowledge of letters and sounds.
What is phonics?
200
A physicist known for his theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
Jimmy is a third grade student who has issues in math. He had problems with math concepts and number sense. He has a lot of anxiety when it comes to math and doesn't want to be in class.
What is Dyscalculia?
300
During this period from 1960 to 1975, the term learning disabilities was introduced.
What is the Emergent Period?
300
This researcher identified Dyscalculia in 1974.
Who is Dr. Ladislav Kosc?
300
Children with Dyslexia may often have this system, which is the inability to retrieve rapidly the spoken referent for visual stimuli.
What is naming speed deficit?
300
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a political leader in the 20th century. He had a stuttering problem and hated school, especially math.
Who is Winston Churchill?
300
Jordan is a first grade student that has trouble copying words accurately when his teacher writes them on the board. He reverses letters and his teacher thinks that he is fooling around and not paying attention. He complains that his eyes hurt and often loses place while reading. He struggles with cutting basic things.
What is Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit?
400
During this time, a student who had conceptual or thinking disorders, behavior disorders, slight neurological signs were classified as a Brain-Injured Child.
What is the Foundation Period?
400
Children with Dyscalculia have issues in this area of having the cognitive ability to separate elements based upon contrast that is dark and light, or black and white. This student will lose their place on their worksheet frequently because of this difficulty.
What is figure-ground?
400
The most popular multi-sensory reading program for teaching students with Dyslexia. This meathold in which children with Dyslexis are taught every sound, and the representative letter combinations that represent the sound, one at a time, in order using multi-sensory meathods.
What is the Orton-Gillingham Method?
400
Had Dyslexia, poor grades, and didn't enjoy anything except science. He was the inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
400
Neveah is a second grade student who had trouble understanding spoken language and has poor reading comprehension. Her mother talked with the teacher because she said she struggles with this at home also. Her mother will give her orders and she says that her daughter looks confused and doesn't do what she is told.
What is Aphasia/Dysphasia?
500
On October 30, 1990, President George H. Bush signed this law, the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1990.
What is the Public Law 101-476?
500
This term refers to problem solving strategies that people use for mathematics such as trial and error, use variables or equations, and working backwards.
What are heuristics?
500
For this method of teaching reading, the teacher sits with the student. They open the book and read out loud together. As they are reading together, the teacher is moving his finger along with the words as he reads. His figner is under each word as he says it moving from left to right. The teacher moves faster so that the student is forced to comprehend.
What is the Neurological Impress Method?
500
Most known as an Army General, leading the United States in World War II. He had trouble with reading his whole life and had to memorize his lectures because of it.
Who is George Patton?
500
Antonio is a third grade student who had problems with motor coordination but is a very bright child. He is a fantastic reader and does well in math. He is above average of all the third grade class. He just struggles with motor skills and students in his classroom laugh at him because he is clumsy.
What is Dyspraxia?