Chapter 6
A strategy used when a teacher provides temporary support for a student only for the teacher to take away the support once the student improves in a given activity.
What is scaffolding?
The most specialized instruction used in the Response to Intervention model. This instruction addresses a student's specific needs within the classroom.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
A disorder that causes inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
A condition defined by behaviors that differ from age norms and community standards.
What is Emotional and Behavior Disorder?
A disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication skills.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The previous offensive term that was used to describe a person with an intellectual disability.
What is mentally retarded?
These types of strategies are memory tools used to help students recall information.
What is Mnemonic Strategies?
The existence of two or more conditions within the same person.
What is Comorbidity?
A disorder that causes uncontrollable verbal outbursts.
What is Tourette syndrome?
The theory that says if a child does not form a bond with their parents, the child will not be able to form relationships with others.
What is Psychogenic Theory?
The most common genetic disorder linked with chromosomal abnormality.
What is Down syndrome?
The lack of effort that students put into an assignment because they believe that they will always fail no matter how hard they try.
What is Learned helplessness?
The American legislation that does not recognize ADHD as a specific learning disability.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
A psychiatric disorder characterized by disruptive and aggressive behavior among children.
What is conduct disorder?
The theory that attempts to explain why people who have autism spectrum disorder cannot realize why other people have a different view point from their own.
What is Theory of Mind?
Lead poisoning is an example of which three major causes of intellectual disability.
What is Postnatal Factors?
The difference between a student and his/her performance.
What is Discrepancy?
The behavioral deterioration in people with ADHD as the effect of a given psychostimulant begins to wear off.
What is a Rebound Effect
The activities that are aimed at eliminating a problem before it can manifest.
What is Primary prevention?
A developmental disorder characterized with severe impairments in social interaction and development of restricted patterns of behavior.
What is Asperger Syndrome?
A method where complex tasks are analyzed and broken down into smaller lessons for students with an intellectual disability.
What is Task Analysis?
The difficulty of learning and understanding mathematics (i.e.: working with numbers).
What is Dyscalculia?
Type of medication prescribed for a person who has attention hyperactivity disorder. This type of medication also increases neurological functioning.
What is Psychostimulants?
The effort of limiting consequences of existing problems while increasing and individual's potential.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
A social communication deficit common in individuals who have autism. The failure to recognize a gaze or pointing by another person.
What is Joint Attention?