Definitions
a disorder that results in an individual having difficulty understanding information that is being heard (auditory information).
What is a deficit in receptive language OR
What is an auditory processing disorder?
This is a condition of having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the education environment and which adversely affects an individual's education al performance.
What is identified in IDEA as a Other Health Impairment?
this learning disability is a severe disability in math calculation
What is dyscalculia?
the type of medicine often taken by students with ADHD
What is a stimulant medication
The individual given credit for coining the term learning disabilties
Samuel Kirk
A severe learning disability in reading is sometimes referred to as:
What is dyslexia
A person can complete only one of this type of task at a time.
What is a cognitive task?
Students who are ADHD and who are eligible for special education might qualify for services under which of the following IDEA categories?
What is Other Health Impairment?
What is the belief that learning disabilities have many causes, and the exact cause is unknown in most instances?
This individual studied logical and natural consequences
Who is Rudolph Dreikurs?
This is a learning disability that impacts a student's eye/hand/ and brain coordination and results in an inability in handwriting.
What is dysgraphia
This is a condition that can make it difficult for a person to be still, control behavior, and pay attention. These difficulties usually appear before the age of 12, but may not be seen in a setting in which they are identified until the person is older.
What is ADHD?
What is d) diminished electrical activity in the brain.
Upon reviewing the evaluation results for an individual who is being considered as eligible for a learning disability, these two factors must be considered by an eligibility team.
What are a)whether the student had appropriate learning opportunities and B) whether there are any other disabilities that would cause the student's academic difficulties.
This theorist studied moral development.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
This is a neurological disorder that impacts the brain's ability to process, or respond to information that is being received.
What is a processing disorder?
This is an on-going activity that involves mental, physiological, physical, and social activities together.
What are basic psychological processes?
What is an associative task?
This teaching and process takes place in the general education setting and is designed to help students who are having difficulty with learning skills, but ultimately encourages schools to take a broader look at the student when determining whether the student has a learning disability.
What is Response to Intervention (RtI)?
This is the articulation of words and is a component of an oral form of language.
What is speech?
What is a) inattentiveness; hyperactivity and impulsivity; and combined type?
This is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that man manifest itself in an imperfect ability to think, speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations.
What is a learning disability?
Students with ADHD who do not qualify for special education services but who need accommodations may qualify for services through what provision?
What is Section 504?
This concept focuses on helping students to becoming more active participants in designing their own educational experiences and monitoring their own success. It is designed to help with teaching students self-awareness and self-advocacy skills, also.
What is self-determination?
This is being able to attend to stimuli for an approporate amount of time.
What is sustained attention?