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General Facts
Tenets of IDEA 04
Myths and Symptoms
The Brain
Stats
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definition of a specific learning disability
What is a disorder in one or more of the basic pychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.
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-students cannot be denied for any reason -Child Find=obligated to attempt to find every student in the district -Compulsory Education=PA law that a child must be in school by age 8
What is Zero Reject
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true or false:there is a cure to a learning disability
What is false: there is no cure, it is not a disease, but there are ways to overcome the challenges it poses through identification and accomadation
100
true or false: both hemispheres are the same size and control the same amount of functions
What is false: each hemisphere is slightly different, one is slightly smaller and one dominates
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percentage of dyslexic people that see letters backwards, upside down, and/or sideways
What is 5%
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true or false: mental retardation is classified as a specific learning disability
What is false
200
LRE, IEP, FAPE
What is Least Restrictive Environment, Individual Education Program, and Free Appropriate Public Education
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is a SLD a hetergenous or homogenous disorder
What is heterogenous: looks different in every individual an example of a homogenous disorder would be down syndrome
200
Controls logical thinking, information processing of words, language, sequencing, and analytical thinking
What is the left hemisphere
200
true or false: a person with a learning disability has an IQ of 70 or less
What is false: 70 and below classifies a person with mental retardation
300
are more boys or girls affected by SLD
What is boys
300
Due Process
What is the right to challenge the findings of an evaluation report/parents have the right to go outside the school to get an independent evaluation
300
true or false: learning disablities aren't caused by lack of educational opportunities
What is true fequent changes of schools, poor school attendance, or lack of instruction in basic skills does not cause someone to have a learning disability
300
name 3 functions of the frontal lobe
What is speech, body movement, executive functioning, behavior, judgment, emotion
300
body organ that forms in week 2 of life
What is the brain
400
brain function that determines that a person has a disability
What is nuerological pathways that are not typical
400
first federal law mandating special education for students with disabilities
What is P.L. 94-142 "The Education of All Handicapped Children Act"(1975)
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the problem a child encounters with aphisia
what is poor motor coordination
400
SSRI
What is Selective Seretonin Reuptake Inhibitors
400
percentage of students with SLD that enroll in a four year college after high school
What is 10%
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The man that coined the term learning disability and started the learning disability association
Who is Samuel Kirk in 1963
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the court case that provided testing for a student in their native language to determine IQ
What is Larry P. vs. Riles
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name 5 symptoms of SLD
What is: -short attention span -poor memory -difficulty following directions -poor reading, writing, spelling, computation -executive functioning problems(organization) -impulsive and restless -trouble with direction and left/right relationship -trouble with time telling -difficulty with abstract concepts -trouble sequencing -trouble with fluency and sounding out words -late achieving developmental milestones
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name 1 pathway that neurons take and what it is called
sensory=to nervous system(body to brain) motor=away from nervous system(brain to body) inter=contained in nervous system(brain and spinal cord and conects motor and sensory) peripheral nervous system=sends messages to brain(hands and feet)
500
how many grade levels below expectation do more than half of the students with SLD perform in high school
What is 3 or more grade levels below expectation