Unit 5 Learning Disabilities

Question 1

Average ability levels with difficulty mastering academic content
Difficulty with information processing, memory, study skills, and planning
Reading is most common academic area of deficiency

Answer 1

Learning Disabilities - Characteristics

Question 2

Intelligent test
Results average-above average IQ score
Wechsler Intelligence Scale
Stanfor-Binet
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children

Academic achievement
Result below grade level score in a subject area
Iowa Test of Basic Skills
Stanford Achievement Test
Woodcock-Johnson Test of Achievement

Response to Intervention
IDEA 2004 allows RTI as asn alternative way to identify LD

Answer 2

Learning Disabilities-Assessment

Question 3

Learning Disabilities- Instruction (3)

Answer 3

Direct Instruction
Cognitive Training
Learning Strategies

Question 4

Involves drill and practice. DI lessons are teacher directed and often scripted or very precisely worded

Answer 4

Direct instructed

Question 5

Helping the student to be aware of their thought processes and learning. Self-instruction and using mnemonic are examples

Answer 5

Cognitive Training

Question 6

Skills for learning- tools that students use to help themselves learn and recall new material. Teaches students how to learn and recall new material. Teaches them how to learn and be more actively engaged in their own learning

Answer 6

Learning Strategies

Question 7

Historically, the resource room has been one of the most common placement
Recently the LRE is the regular classroom

Answer 7

Learning Disabilities LRE/Placement