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What is 41%
This is the percentage of students that recieve special education services for learning disabilities.
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What is life
This is how long a learning disability affects a person for
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What is dyslexia
This is the most common type of learning disability.
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What is the Comittee on Special Education
This is what CSE stands for.
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What is institutionalized
Prior to 1975 this usually happened to people with learning disabilities
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What is 67% and 74%
The percentage of students that graduate from highschool with learning disabilities compared to "normal" students.
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What is dysgraphia
This learning disability is charachterized as having problems with organizing ideas
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What are Broca's Area, Wernicke's Area and the Occipital Lobe
These are the three major brain locations associated with learning disabilities.
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Individual Education Plan
IEP stands for this
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What is 1975
This is when IDEA was passed into legislation
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What is 2.4 million
This is the amount of children in the United States that are classified as having learning disabilities
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What is evaluation
This is the first step in diagnosing a learning disability
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What is a gap between intelligence and ability to learn
This defines a learning disability from an intellectual disabilitiy.
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What is one
This many meetings are required for CSE following the initial meeting
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What is1990
This is the year that Autism Spectrum Disorder was added into IDEA
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What is word blindness
In 1877 this was the term used for dyslexia
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What is an initial CSE meeting
This type of meeting is needed in order to start special education services for a student
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What is dyscalculia
This is the name for the disorder that involves problems in mathmatics
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Who are the school psychologist, special education teacher, chairl, classroom teacher and parent representative
These are the five mandated members to attend a CSE meeting
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What is Intellectual Disability
In 2010 the term Mental Retardation was changed to this
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What is Americans with Disabilities Act
The ADA of 1990 stands for this
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What is struggling with school work and falling behind
These are the primary signs of a learning disability
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What are reading, writing, spelling and speaking
Dyslexia is a type of learning disability with difficulty in these educational areas
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What is IEP
This document holds information such as a child's current level of performance, special classroom needs and requirements of other services
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What is strephosymbolia
In 1937 Samuel Orton "discovered" this disorder
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