The term "learning disability" was fist used by this man is 1963.
Who is Dr. Samuel Kirk?
100
Refers to difficulty with
planning or programming the motor-speech movements required to produce speech
What is Dyspraxia?
100
Dyslexia is ________ in nature.
What is neurological?
100
Dyscalculia is __________ in nature.
What is genetic or congenital?
100
He had dyslexia and invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
The acronym LDA stands for _______.
What is Learning Disabilities Association of America?
200
The inability to distinguish or separate the sounds in spoken words.
What is Dyslexia?
200
This type of dyslexia is characterized by difficulties with word attack skills, including phonetic segmentation and blending.
What is Dysphonetic Dyslexia?
200
This type of memory deals with difficulty retrieving arithmetic facts.
What is semantic memory?
200
This US WWII Army General had a reading deficiency all of his life.
Who is General George Patton?
300
In the 1870's, disability Dyslexia was known as ______.
What is Word Blindness?
300
This disability is a neurologically based disorder of mathematical abilities.
What is Dyscalculia?
300
Children with both a phonological and naming-speed deficit have a _________.
What is double deficit?
300
This term refers to the inability to operate with symbols or numbers.
What is Intermediate Dyscalculia?
300
This famous motion picture producer was fired from the Kansas City newspaper for being "slow" and lacking creativity.
Who is Walt Disney?
400
This man was the most responsible for setting the stage for the study of reading disabilities in the United States.
Who is Samuel Orton?
400
This learning disability makes the act of writing difficult and can lead to problems with spelling, poor handwriting and putting thoughts on paper.
What is Dysgraphia?
400
"ADHD causes dyslexia" is a common ________.
What is myth?
400
People with __________ have difficulty translating their abstract mathematical knowledge into real-world actions or procedures.
What is practognostic dyscalculia?
400
This Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who was known for his motivating speeches had a stuttering problem.
Who is Winston Churchill?
500
This is the phonics-based, multisensory method using the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities for reading decoding and spelling instruction.
What is the Gillingham Approach?
500
This LD refers to the difficulty processing and remembering language-related tasks.
What is Central Auditory Processing Disorder?
500
This type of dyslexia is characterized by difficulty learning to recognize whole words visually, and problems deciphering words that do not follow regular phonetic rules.
What is Dyseidetic Dyslexia?
500
The A in "CRA Sequence" stands for __________.
What is Abstract?
500
This famous actress who is best known for her role in "Three's Company" had a learning disability which led to poor performance in school and an inability to understand written language.