PSYCH312 Final: Psych 312 Glossary Lerner
19 Nov 2015
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Strauss and lehtinen are pioneers who identified brain-injured children as a new category of exceptional children. They identify three stages during which a brain injury could occur (before birth- prenatal stage, during birth process, or at some point after birth-postnatal stage). They believed that organic impairment lead to the impediment of normal learning process. Many of these children previously had been classified as mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, autistic, aphasic, or behaviorally maladjusted. Public law 94-142 is the first special education law providing services for students with disabilities, which was called education for all handicapped children act. This identified for the first time each category of exceptional children in special education, along with the actual prevalence rates for each category of disability. The federal definition states that the child with ld has severe discrepancy between achievement (what the student has learned or achieved) and intellectual ability (student"s potential for learning) in one or more of seven areas.
