EXED 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Brain Damage, Graphic Organizer, Dyslexia
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Specific learning disability (sld): a disorder in which 1 or more of the basic psychological processes_____ involved in understanding or using language. The disorder may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do math. On the bell curve, would be 85 and below. The njcld (national joint comity on learning disabilities) and the definition of ld: The njcld believes the federal definition of ld contains several weaknesses: __exclusion of adults_______ Learning disabilities can occur across the life span. We don"t provide sped services past k-12, ending at age 22. Focusing on children: reference to basic psychological processes . This is a curricular issue concerning how to teach and not a definitional one: inclusion of ___spelling_____ as a learning disability. Spelling can be subsumed under ____written expression____ : inclusion of obsolete terms. Includes terms that are difficult to define: wording of the ___exclusion clause______________ Suggests that learning disabilities cannot occur with other disabilities.
