Final

Question 1

What is the most frequently occurring special education category?

Answer 1

Specific Learning Disability

Question 2

What is the percentage of SLD within the special ed population?

Answer 2

40-50%

Question 3

What is the percentage of SLD within the general population?

Answer 3

4-5%

Question 4

Who does SLD regulations apply to?

Answer 4

Public and private schools who get federal funding

Question 5

What is PL 94-142?

Answer 5

Education for All Handicapped Children

Question 6

What year did PL 94-142 come out?

Answer 6

1975

Question 7

What happened to LD under Education for All Handicapped Children?

Answer 7

It became a national legislation & the classification tripled after the law was set in place

Question 8

What did Education for all Handicapped Children turn into?

Answer 8

IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)

Question 9

What did school-aged children with disabilities receive under Education for all Handicapped Children?

Answer 9

FAPE (Free and Appropriate Public Education)

-5-21 years old

Question 10

What year was PL 99-457?

Answer 10

1986

Question 11

What did PL 99-457 do?

Answer 11

Extended the years from birth-5 years (early intervention)
FAPE: 3-21 (Mandated)
-Early intervention: birth-2 years (encouraged)

Question 12

When did IDEA come out?

Answer 12

1990

Question 13

What is PL 101-476?

Answer 13

IDEA

Question 14

What new transitions came from IDEA?

Answer 14

Added Autism and TBI
Require transition services
Try to include children with disabilities into gen. ed classrooms as much as possible

Question 15

What new transitions came from updated IDEA in 1997?

Answer 15

Expands LRE

Question 16

What happened in 2004?

Answer 16

IDEIA

Question 17

What new transitions came from updated IDEIA?

Answer 17

realign with NCLB (2001)
focus on increasing expectations
changes to the SLD procedures 
-opt out of discrepancy model
-RTI
-Other research based procedures

Question 18

What information was there for LD in the mid-late 1800s?

Answer 18

There was no label, but some identification

• neurology, psychology, and education fields
• based on observations
• more of a social construct, not medical or brain based LD

Question 19

Who created the first label of LD?

Answer 19

Sam Kirk (1963)

Question 20

Who coined the term “brain injured child”?

Answer 20

Alfred Stauss

Question 21

What did Alfred Stauss do?

Answer 21

Moved to a medical model

Focused on etiology (cause)

Question 22

Can children show a discrepancy without being eligible for LD services?

Answer 22

Yes, don’t have a NEED

Question 23

What are the classification systems under IDEA?

Answer 23

Ability-Achievement
RTI
Other

Question 24

What does ability-achievement require?

Answer 24

Requires the estimate of student’s ability to learn

Question 25

Who offered little empirical support for the ability-achievement technique?

Answer 25

Ysseldyke

Question 26

What is the umbrella term for a wide variety of disorders?

Answer 26

Learning Disabilities

Question 27

What is Dyslexia?

Answer 27

Inability to read

Question 28

What is developmental dyslexia?

Answer 28

acquired before or just after birth

Question 29

What is acquired dyslexia?

Answer 29

due to brain damage after learning to read

Question 30

What is aphasia?

Answer 30

loss of language ability

Question 31

What is the percentage of children with learning disabilities in the school-aged population?

Answer 31

10-15%

Question 32

Who are more disabilities found in?

Answer 32

Older children

Question 33

How many children lack fundamental reading skills?

Answer 33

1/3

Question 34

Development of Language: birth-9 months

Answer 34

Child hears language and gradually begins to understand it which develops an "inner language"

Question 35

Development of Language: up to 12 months

Answer 35

Auditory receptive language: comprehend much of what is said, and by 9 months they begin to imitate specific words

Question 36

Development of Language: 12 months-7 years

Answer 36

Auditory expressive language: auditory perception of words and the motor-speech imitation of them

Question 37

Development of Language: 6 years and up

Answer 37

Visual receptive language (reading): acquires an auditory graphic match between what they know auditorally