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Specific Learning Disabilities
Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Discrepancy Model and RtII
Inclusion
100
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
What is specific learning disability.
100
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
Children with Dyscalculia may have difficulty in the area of what?
What is figure-ground.
100
Parents can reject the findings of an evaluation report and seek evaluation outside the district and parents can reject the content of IEP and request an impartial mediation or hearing from the state.
What is due process.
100
Aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classes, other education-related settings, and in extracurricular and nonacademic settings, to enable children with disabilities to be educated with non-disabled children to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is Supplementary aids and services.
200
The key figure in setting the stage for the study of reading disabilities in the United States.
Who is Samuel Orton.
200
The most popular multi-sensory reading program for dyslexia is the what?
What is Orton Gillingham Method.
200
This refers to the ability to think about quantity.
What is number sense.
200
This is the process of administering a test under uniform conditions to each child who is to be tested.
What is standardization.
200
The selective placement of special education students in one or more "regular" education classes
What is mainstreaming.
300
This diet led researchers to believe specific chemicals and food colorings added to our food can cause learning disabilities
What is Feingold Diet.
300
Children with this usually have problems with reading, spelling, writing, and sometimes numbers.
What is dyslexia.
300
This is an emotional based reaction to mathematics that causes individuals to experience high levels of anxiety when faced with math tests or math problems
What is math anxiety.
300
The most commonly used achievement test used in comprehensive evaluations is the
What is Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT).
300
The commitment to educate each child, to the maximum extent appropriate, in the school and classroom he or she would otherwise attend.
What is inclusion.
400
One type of SLD was once called this because of the poor motor problems exhibited by children with SLDs.
What is clumsy child syndrome.
400
This method stresses whole-word learning and there is no attempt to teach phonics.
What is Fernald Method.
400
This is a teacher-centered instructional approach that is most effective for teaching basic or isolated skills.
What is direct instruction.
400
In Pennsylvania, this is a three-tier (or three-level) prevention, early identification, and intervening strategy provided in general education classrooms, and refers to a process that emphasizes how well students respond to changes in instruction.
What is RtII.
400
All students, regardless of handicapping condition or severity, will be in a regular classroom/program full time.
What is full inclusion.
500
Long before Dr. Kirk used the term learning disability physicians were describing a phenomenon known as what?
What is word blindness.
500
This is an awareness of individual sounds and can attend to and manipulate them in a word.
What are phonemes.
500
This is student centered and teaches students how to learn information and then retrieve that information when it is needed.
What is strategy instruction.
500
If a student’s score on the IQ test is at least how many standard deviations higher than his or her scores on an achievement test, the student is described as having a significant discrepancy between IQ and achievement and, therefore, as having a learning disability.
What is two.
500
This requires that a recipient of federal funds provide for the education of each qualified handicapped person in its jurisdiction with persons who are not handicapped to the maximum extent appropriate to the needs of the handicapped person
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.