Literacy & Language
This type of language is used in school to explain complex ideas and concepts.
What is Academic Language?
A developmental disorder affecting communication and behavior, appearing before age 3.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
This teaching approach values students’ culture and language as assets.
What is Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching?
Changes to instruction that do not alter learning expectations are called this.
What are Accommodations?
These students demonstrate advanced abilities or achievement and often need enrichment or accelerated instruction to fully develop their potential.
What are Gifted and Talented Students?
Words that look or sound similar across languages and share meanings are called.
What are Cognates?
A condition caused by an extra chromosome that impacts physical and cognitive development.
What is Down Syndrome?
This concept views neurological differences as natural variations rather than deficits.
What is Neurodiversity?
Changes that alter curriculum or expectations for students with disabilities are called this.
What are Modifications?
Devices that stimulate the auditory nerve to represent sound.
Students who read words correctly but do not understand what they read are known as this.
What are Word Callers?
A condition involving low intellectual functioning and difficulty with adaptive behaviors.
What is Intellectual Disability?
This language system is spoken by many Black Americans and has its own rules and structure.
What is Black Language?
A framework providing tiered academic and behavioral supports for all students.
What is Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)?
Difficulty understanding sounds despite normal hearing ability.
What is Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)?
The ability to retrieve words from memory when speaking or writing is called this.
What is Lexical Retrieval?
A general term for disorders affecting reading, writing, math, or language.
What is a Learning Disability?
Using multiple languages flexibly to understand and express meaning is known as this.
An approach that evaluates learning based on how students respond to instruction.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
A diagnostic manual published by the American Psychiatric Association.
What is DSM-5?
This refers to the mainstream form of English commonly used in schools and media.
What is General American English?
Delayed language development not caused by other conditions.
What is Specific Language Impairment (SLI)?
Teaching students with disabilities in general education classroom is called this.
What is Inclusion?
Acting without thinking about consequences is referred to as this behavior.
What is Impulsivity?
The World Health Organization’s classification system for diseases and conditions.
What is ICD-11?