What are the four types of specific learning disabilities?
What are dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and development apraxia of speech
100
The brain has how many hemispheres?
What are 2 hemispheres
100
Dyslexia effects about how much of the school age population?
What is 2-8%
100
What mode is the oldest and most used for assessing someone for a SLD?
What is the Discrepancy Model
100
What are the three main parts of a neuron?
What are cell body, axon and dendrite
200
Problems with learing abstract concepts of time and direction is an example of what specific learning disability?
What is dyscalculia
200
What hemisphere of the brain is used for visual imagery, visual discrimination, spatial orientation, music and creativity?
What is the right hemisphere
200
Children with dyslexia usually have problems with what four learning areas?
What are reading, spelling, writing and sometimes numbers
200
Starting at what standard score of an IQ test are you considered average?
What is 100
200
What does the abbriviation SSRI stand for?
What is Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
300
Approximately how many children are recieving special education for SLDs?
What is 2.5 million
300
What hemisphere of the brain is used for logical thinking, language, sequencing, and analytical thinking?
What is the left hemisphere
300
The neural loop of the brain is located on what side of the brain?
What is the left side
300
What classification would you give someone who recieved less then a 70 on an IQ test?
What is developmentaly delayed
300
What type of neurotransmitter helps regulate arousal and moods?
What is Norepinephrine
400
More than half of the students with SLD in high school perform how many grade levels below expectation?
What is 3 or more
400
What lobe of the brain is used for vision and visual perception?
What is the occipital lobe
400
What is the condition when symbols and especially phrases, words, or letters appear to be reversed or transposed in reading?
What is stephosymbolia
400
What percentage of school children are placed into the top level of the Rtll model
What is 5%
400
Low levels of serotonin can reduce our what in the occipital lobe?
What is visual memory
500
What percentage of the school age population had SLD?
What is 6-10%
500
What is sometimes referred to as the pathway between the two lobes?
What is the corpus callosum
500
What are the two parts of the brain associated with reading?
What are the Broca's area and Wernicke's area
500
If a student's score on an IQ test is at least 2 standard deviations or how many points, higher than on an achievement test, the student is described with having a SLD.
What is 30 points
500
Neurotransmitters are the chemicals responsible for signal transmission between what?