Exam 7: Communication-And-Learning-Disorders

Which of the following is a category of learning disorders?

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

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

Heritability accounts for approximately ____ of the variance in reading disorders.

This 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.

Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA)mandate that children with special needs ____.

The age at which stuttering tends to recede is around ____.

Which statement regarding gender differences in rates of communication disorders is true?

Phonological awareness is a broad construct that includes ____.

Deficits in ____ are a chief reason that most children with communication and learning disorders have problems in learning to read and spell.

Which disorder is determined by achievement test results that are substantially below what is expected for the child's age,schooling,and intellectual ability?

Almost ________ of children who stutter before the age of 5 will no longer stutter once they have been in school for about a year.

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

To strengthen a child's neural circuits for verbal memory,a parent should ____.

The cause of most learning disorders is ____.

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

Nonverbal learning disabilities are characteristic of children who perform worse at ____ than reading.

A child with a mathematics disorder would most likely have difficulty with ____.

In comparison to men with learning disorders,women tend to have ____.

What particular difficulties and errors might suggest that a child has a reading disorder?​