This professor at the University of Arizona first introduced the term learning disability in 1963 at a conference in Chicago later coined him the name "Father of Special Education".
Who is Dr. Samuel Kirk?
100
This court case established that all children, with or without disabilities, were entitled to receive a free and appropriate public education.
What is PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1971)?
100
A mothers use of these products during pregnancy can cause multiple problems with her child such as IQ deficits, learning disorders, attention deficits, and behaviors problems.
What is Tobacco and Nicotine?
100
People with this specific learning disability may be known to have difficulty with accurate or fluent word recognition and poor spelling or decoding abilities.
What is Dyslexia?
100
Frequent hyperactivity, impulse, or inattention compared to peers.
What is Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disability (ADHD)?
200
This man described children who could see through their eyes perfectly, but could not read as "word blindness".
Who is Adolf Kussamaul?
200
This court cased determined that all school districts must provide students with disabilities reasonable accommodations within general education environment to maximum extent appropriate.
What is Oberti v. Board of Education of the Borough of Clementon School District (1993)?
200
The use of alcohol during pregnancy can lead to the baby having this syndrome.
What are Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
200
This term is used for a brain condition that causes poor hand writing or problems performing the physical aspect of writing.
What is dysgraphia?
200
High functioning autism with less impairments than autism in language, cognition, and self-help skills.
What is Asperger Syndrome?
300
This man, who has an area of the brain named after him, promoted the idea that speech functions primarily reside in the left side of the brain.
Who is Pierre Paul Broca?
300
This court case concluded that supplemental aides and serviced (SaS) must be provided before a school district can consider educating a student outside the regular education classroom.
What is Greer v. Rome City School District (1992)?
300
The abnormal cell movement in the brain, which is suppose to rapidly create networks with other parts of the brain, causing these types of birth defects.
What are Neuronal Migration Disorders?
300
A students in math class with this specific learning disability would have difficulty talking about mathematical concepts or relationships.
What is Verbal Dyscalculia?
300
Developmental disabilities characterized by impairments in intellectual functioning and adaptive skills.
What is Mild Intellectual Disabilities?
400
This man, which the brain's left temporal lobe is named after, did research with sensory aphasia: patients have fluent speech but meaningless sentences.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
400
This case determined students who do not speak English as their first language must be assessed in their native language.
What is Diana v. State Board of Education (1970)?
400
This diet claims to be able to help ADHD and a number of other childhood disabilities by eliminating certain artificial coloring, flavoring, aspartame, and salicylates.
What is the Feingold Diet?
400
This specific learning disability is identified when there are problems with motor coordination.
What is Dyspraxia?
400
Disorders with identified characteristics that occur over an extended period of time, to a marked degree, that negatively affect a child's education experience.
What is Emotional or Behavior Disorders?
500
This man, a neuropathologist of State Psychopathic Hospital, set up a 2 week mobile clinic experiment with students who were either considered defective, retarded, or failing and found nearly all scored near average or above average on I.Q tests.
Who is Samuel Orton?
500
This court case concluded that students can not be identified as having a disability based on tests which are both culturally and racially biased.
What is Larry v. Riles (1984)?
500
The overexposure of this metal element can lead to attention problems, hyperactivity, impulse behavior, reduced IQ, poor school performance, aggression, and delinquent behavior.
What is Lead?
500
This specific learning disabilities definition is the inability to operate with symbols or numbers.
What is intermediate Dyscalculia?
500
Severe developmental disability characterized by an early age of onset, poor social development, impairments in language development, and rigidity in behavior.