RP & SE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Resource Room, Attention, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
24 Feb 2017
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Learning disabilities are the largest category of children and youth in special education. Learning disabled initially used by samuel kirk in 1963. Learning disabilities: disability in which there is discrepancy between person"s ability and academic achievement. Federal definition of learning disabilities: regulations require that team may determine child has learning disability if. Child has severe discrepancy between achievement and intellectual ability in one or more of the following areas. Mathematics reasoning: useful for classifying but provides little information on instruction, discrepancy: difference between student"s actual academic performance and estimated ability. Association for children with learning disabilities: association for children with learning disabilities stresses lifelong aspect of learning disabilities, issues of socialization and self-esteem, eliminates exclusionary language, and adaptive behaviors. Foundation phase: studies of brain function in 19th and early 20th centuries. Interested in detecting areas in brain that controlled certain functions. Transition phase: 1930s teachers, reading specialists, psychologist, etc. began applying scientific research evidence to children with learning problems.
