This law, reformed most recently in 2004, is associated with placing the child in the least restrictive environment and providing a free appropriate public education to all students with disabilities.
What is IDEA or the Individual with Disabilities Education Act.
100
This reading disability is defined as a severe difficulty in learning to read that is neurological in origin.
What is dyslexia.
100
This hemisphere of the brain is generally associated with language functioning, logic, and intellect.
What is the left hemisphere.
100
This person first introduced the term learning disability in 1963.
Who is Samuel Kirk.
100
A child is identified as learning disabled if they show a severe discrepancy between achievement and this.
What is intellectual ability.
200
Pennsylvania's Department of Education allows for students to be diagnosed as having a learning disability through this and the traditional discrepancy model.
What is response to intervention.
200
This deficit found in most students with dyslexia results in the inability to form relationships between graphemes and phonemes.
What is phonological processing deficit.
200
An infant, whose mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy, may end up with this syndrome, which could lead to behavior and learning problems.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
200
When we process words we hear, we are using the part of the brain associated with this German neurologist.
Who is Carl Wernicke.
200
A child with a motor, hearing or this handicap is excluded from the learning disability definition.
What is visual.
300
If a school places a child immediately into a special education classroom without considering supplemental aids and services that could accomodate the child in a regular education classroom, the school is not placing the child in this.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE).
300
While observing a classroom, you witness students tracing letters in sand while saying the sounds out loud associated with that letter. This teaching method is beneficial to students with reading disabilities.
What is multi-sensory teaching or Orton Gillingham Method.
300
A deaf child may experience continual ringing in her ears as a result of this rewiring of brain cells.
What is neuroplasticity.
300
A man suddenly wakes up unable to read at age 45. This acquired word blindess was studied by this Ophthalmologist.
Who is James Hinshelwood.
300
For a discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement to be considered severe the IQ must be this many points higher than his achievement test.
What is 30 points or two standard deviations.
400
An educator states, "A student with a learning disability must earn their place in my regular education classroom. Until then, they should be in a special education environment." The educator believes in this.
What is mainstreaming.
400
A teacher breaks down the word "bat" by expressing the individual phonemes that make up the word "buh" "ah" "tuh." The teacher is using this form of phonics.
What is synthetic phonics.
400
An image of child's brain shows that the reader is only activating the inferior frontal gyrus or this area of the brain known for word articulation.
What is Broca's Area.
400
This researcher believed that a persons intelligence and personality is related to the size and shape of the skull.
Who is Franz Joseph Gall.
400
A student receives an FSIQ of 100 and earns a standard score of 65 on his reading achievement test. The child will be identified as this.
What is having a learning disability.
500
A court rules in favor of a parent who is requesting that their child with a learning disability be taught in the regular classroom with supplemental aids and services, despite the added cost of these services handled by the school district. The court decision followed this court case of 1992.
What is Greer vs. Rome City School District.
500
Trouble learning common nursery rhymes, persistent baby talk, and trouble learning letters in his own name are symtoms of dyslexia shown at this school level.
What is preschool.
500
A child sees a word in print and immediately activates the word form and all the important information about the word. The fluent reader is storing words in this system.
What is occipito-temporal system.
500
A student is characterized by transposing and reversing words and letters. This researcher came up with a term to describe this type of student.
Who is Samuel Orton.
500
A Pennsylvania student receives intensive instruction in reading 3 days a week in a small group setting. The student is at this tier of the RtII framework.