Exam 7: Communication and Learning Disorders

 This law, originally passed in 1975 and renamed in 2004, mandates that children with special needs must be afforded access to all educational services, regardless of their handicaps. The Act, signed into U.S. law in 2002, allowed for more intensified efforts by each state to improve the academic achievement of public school students considered at risk for school failure.

 List the steps involved in direct behavioral instruction.

 Compare and contrast behavioral strategies for addressing SLD with cognitive-behavioral interventions.

 What particular difficulties, errors, and/or deficits suggest a child has an impairment in mathematics?

 ____ is based on the premise that the ability to decode and recognize words accurately and rapidly must be acquired before reading comprehension can occur.

 Which is an appropriate treatment for children who stutter?

 Outline and describe the diagnostic criteria for a language disorder.

 A child diagnosed with a learning disorder would typically score ____.

 ____ education strategies are based on the premise that children with special needs will benefit from associating with normally developing peers.

 Which statement about learning disabilities is true?

 How do the biological causes of language-based learning disabilities and nonverbal learning disabilities differ?

 Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with learning disorders because ____.

 Phonological awareness is a broad construct that includes ____.

 Which statement about gender differences in rates of stuttering is true?

 It has been suggested that language-based learning disorders are related to neurological deficits in sensitivity. What is the nature of this argument?

 Mary is reading out loud to her class. She reads "from," when in fact the word is "form." Mary has made a(n) ____ error.

 Mild specific learning disorders include which of the following?

 Shaywitz and Shaywitz (2002) found that the brains of dyslexic children compared to nonimpaired children had ____.

 Eden et al. (1996) found that the brains of adults with reading disorders show no activation in an area that detects ____.

 Which statement about the causes of stuttering is true?