Understanding Specific Learning Disabilities

A disorder in one or more of the basic learning processes involved in understanding or using language, which may manifest as difficulties in listening, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, or doing mathematical calculations.

<p>A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects educational performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specific Learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, Intellectual Disability, and Emotional/Behavior Disorder</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, adversely affecting educational performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hyperactivity, aggression/self-injurious behavior, withdrawal, immaturity, and difficulties learning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Discrimination in federal programs and services based on disability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) was enacted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To catch students when they begin to struggle and provide appropriate interventions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supplementary instruction outside of the general education classroom</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self-Contained Room</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A school that provides intensive supports and services with a smaller student-teacher ratio.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hospital/Homebound/Residential Placement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>disability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Related Services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The student's progress on the goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Re-evaluation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Predetermining placement prior to the meeting</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Student progress is monitored at least three times per year using a school-wide screening.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interventions for students not making adequate progress in Tier I that are evidence-based and include small-group instruction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intensive intervention for students who continue to make minimal progress in Tier II, potentially individualized or in small groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An administrator, school interventionist, guidance counselor, speech language pathologist, general education teacher, special education teacher, school psychologist, and other educators.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To include problem identification, problem analysis, plan development, and plan evaluation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Problem Identification.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identify why the desired outcome is not occurring and what barriers to learning are involved.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identify the most efficient action, available resources, and who will implement the intervention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reviewing what the data shows and determining next steps such as continuing, revising, or discontinuing the plan.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frameworks including RtI, school improvement, school-wide behavior programs, and special education.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regulates the special education process to ensure fair and appropriate identification and placement of students.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To determine whether a child has a disability and what special education services they may need.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To identify if the child has a disability, gather information for educational needs, and guide decision making for an appropriate educational program.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health, vision and hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, and motor abilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Providing informed consent, sharing developmental and medical history, and discussing concerns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether a student has a disability that requires special education services.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The student must meet criteria for at least one of the thirteen disabilities recognized by IDEA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The special education services and supports that address the educational needs of a student with a disability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance, Measurable Annual Goals, Description of Student's Progress, Services and Supports, Accommodations for Assessments, and Measurable Postsecondary Goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An individualized educational program designed to meet the needs of a specific student with a disability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Students with disabilities should be educated alongside their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Students must earn their way into the general education classroom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regular collaboration between teachers is required.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both teachers are responsible for planning and delivering instruction together.</p> Signup and view all the answers