8 Areas Of Achievement

Question 1

8 AREAS OF ACHIEVEMENT

As related to “Significant Achievement Discrepancy” when evaluating students for “Specific Learning Disability”.

ACADEMIC SKILL DEFICITS FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

Answer 1

8 Areas of Achievement

1. Oral Expression
2. Listening Comprehension
3. Basic Reading
4. Reading Comprehension
5. Reading Fluency
6. Math Calculation
7. Math Reasoning
8. Written Exression of

Question 2

8 Areas of Achievement

1. ORAL EXPRESSION

Answer 2

1. Oral Expression

Ability to use spoken language to communicate ideas.

A. Difficulty labeling

B. Difficulty relating information in sequence.

C. Difficulty Exchanging a meaningful conversation.

Question 3

8 Areas of Achievement

2. LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Answer 3

2. Listening Comprehension

Ability to understand spoken language on an age appropriate level.

1. Difficulty defining words that are used correctly in conversation.
2. Difficulty following basic and multi-step directions.
3. Difficulty retaining what someone has just said.
4. Difficulty recalling information from orally read stories
5. Difficulty recalling information from oral lectures
6. Difficulty understanding humor.

Question 4

8 Areas of Achievement

3. BASIC READING

Answer 4

3. Basic Reading Skills

Ability to use WORD ATTACK SKILLS in the process of DECODING WRITTEN SYMBOLS.

1) . Difficulty REMEMBERING WHAT SOUNDS are made by DIFFERENT LETTERS.
2) . Difficulty BREAKING WORDS into COMPONENT PARTS.
3) . Difficulty RECOGNIZING words in ISOLATION.
4. Difficulty in DISCRIMINATING SIMILAR WORDS.

Question 5

8 Areas of Achievement

4. READING COMPREHENSION

Answer 5

4. Reading Comprehension

ABILITY TO PROCESS AND UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE

1) Difficulty remembering what has been read.
2) Difficulty retelling stories in sequence.
3) . Difficulty answering question about material that has just been read.

Question 6

8 Areas of Achievement

5. READING FLUENCY

Answer 6

5. Reading Fluency

ABILITY TO READ CONNECTED TEXT ACCURATELY AND AUTOMATICALLY WITH APPROPRIATE EXPRESSION.

1) Slow reading rate.
2) Difficulty reading words in connected text that can be read in isolation.
3) Difficulty reading with appropriate rhythm and intonation.

Question 7

8 Areas of Achievement

6. MATH CALCULATION

Answer 7

6. Math Calculation

ABILITY TO PROCESS NUMERICAL SYMBOLS TO DERIVE RESULTS, INCLUDING SPACIAL AWARENESS OF SYMBOL PLACEMENTS AND SEQUENCING ALGORITHMS FOR OPERATIONS.

1) Difficulty recognizing numbers.
2) Difficuly remembering basic facts.
3) Difficulty with place value.
4) Difficulty with Column ealignment
5) Difficulty with remembering steps in algorithms (e.g. Regrouping, long division).

Question 8

8 Areas of Achievement

7. MATH REASONING

Answer 8

7. Math Reasoning

ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND LOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MATHMATICAL CONCEPTS AND OPERATIONS, INCLUDING CORRECT SEQUENCING, and SPACIAL AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION.

1) Difficulty determining if solution is correct.
2) Difficulty determining which operation to use in word problems.
3) Difficulty judging the size of objects.
4) Difficulty reading maps and diagrams.
5) Difficulty with tie (?), money, and management concepts.

Question 9

8 Areas of Achievement

8. WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Answer 9

8. Written Expression

ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE IDEAS IN WRITING WITH APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE AND FORMULATION SKILLS.

1) Difficulty with idea organization, organization, and structure of ideas in composition.
2) Difficulty with writing mechanics. (e.g. Punctuation)
3) Difficulty writing grammatically correct sentences.
4. Difficulty applying basic letter-sound correspondences and spelling rules.
5) Inconsistent or incorrect size spacing, alignment, and/or formation when writing letters, words and numbers.
6) Slow, labored, messy, and ofteillegible writing products.