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Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Minimal brain injury | Refers to individuals who show behavioral but not neurological signs of brain injury |
| Specific learning disability | Means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which solar may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen |
| National joint committee on learning disabilities | Composed of representatives of the major professional organizations involved with students with learning disabilities |
| Omission of intrinsic nature of learning disabilities | The federal definition makes no mention of casual factors |
| Omission of adults | The NJCLD responded to the growing awareness that learning disabilities are not just a disability of a childhood. They are a lifelong condition |
| American psychiatric Association | Persistent, substantial discrepancy between actual and expected academic skills based on chronological age that results and significant interference with academic or daily living skills |
| Prevalence | According to US government figures, just under 3.5% of children between the ages of six and 21 have been identified by the public schools of having learning disabilities. |
| Toxins | Agents can result in a house of problems, such as headaches, poor memory, and even an intellectual disabilities. |
| Metacognition | Refers to a person ability to think about his own thinking and is critical to learning, memory, and achievement. |
| Locus of control | These individuals believe that their lives are controlled by external factors such as luck or fate rather than internal factors such as determination or ability |
| Learned helplessness | To give up the worst because they think no matter how hard they try they will fail. |
| Science of reading | 40 years of converting evidence from research conducted by educators, psychologist, and cognitive scientist on the reading process |
| Graphic organizers | Visual devices that employ lines, circles, boxes to organize information. |
| Task analysis | Breaking down economic problems and other component parts so that teachers can teach the parts separately and then teach students to put the parts together. |
| Enhancement | Making materials more salient or prominent |
| Direct instruction | Focuses on the detail instructional process, commercial programs are available for several several academic areas |