EDUC230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Twin, Brain Injury, Information Processing
19 Apr 2017
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Basic premise is that if you measure a student"s response to increasingly intensive instruction you can tell whether it is the result of inferior instruction or is a disability. Tier 1- primary intervention in general education. Discrepancy between ability or potential and actual performance via rti. Estimates vary greatly from 1-20% of the school age population (it is about. Approximately 43-44% of students in special education are labelled ld . About 85% of these students have specific problems with reading and reading comprehension. Great increases in the population in the last several decades. Research suggests that some reading difficulties occur more in some families than others. Some learning disabilities are also much more common in maternal (identical) twins than fraternal twins. Have some students with ld been seriously mistaught . Lack of cognitive strategies needed for efficient learning. Reading difficulties- about 85% of students with ld have problems with reading and reading comprehension.
