EDPE 300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Descriptive Knowledge, Autism Spectrum, Distributed Artificial Intelligence

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Chapter 5: individual differences & special educational needs. Individual needs: variability in abilities and characteristics among students at a particular age, students with special needs: students different enough from their peers to require specially adapted materials and practice. Idea: guarantees the following, a free and appropriate education, fair and nondiscriminatory evaluation, education in the least-restrictive environment, individualized education program, due process. Strategies for adapting instruction for students with learning disabilities include: minimizing potentially distracting stimuli, using multiple methods of presentation, analyzing students" errors for clues about processing difficulties, teaching learning and memory strategies, providing study aids. Mental retardation: disability characterized by significantly below-average general intelligence and deficits in adaptive behavior, different than learning disabled below- average iq (70 or below, require adapted instruction, often provided with vocational skills. Long term memory stage: various forms of knowledge, declarative knowledge: knowledge that relates to the nature of how things are, facts, procedural knowledge: knowledge concerning how to do something, procedures.