DN a few extras

Question 1

What is an SLD?

Answer 1

• Specific Learning Disability
• disorder in one or more basic psychological processes involved in
  
  • understanding, or in using language (spoken, written)

Question 2

RTI

Answer 2

• Response to Intervention
• Multilevel
  
  • Lvl 1 - Classroom
  • Lvl 2 - Small group (special teaching)
  • Lvl 3 - Individually-tailored & administered for those failed to respond to Lvl 2.

Question 3

Dynamic Assessment

Answer 3

• based on test-intervention-retest model
  
  • Budoff (1967, 1987)

Question 4

LPAD

Answer 4

• Learning Potential Assessment Device
• not really a device
• a way of teaching once taken away problems of delivery (teaching issues)
• provides info about nature & amount of intervention required to enhance a child’s performance

Question 5

What question arose out of Budoff’s work?

Answer 5

• the question what is teaching issue & what is a true learning difficulty