Module 7: Students with Specific Learning Disabilities

Stages of learning that are determined by the strength of prior learning

• Maintenance

• Acquisition & Reversion

• Proficiency and Automaticity

Proficiency and Automaticity

• Generalization

• Adaptation

• Proficiency and Automaticity

is the process by which experience and practice result in a stable change in the learner’s behavior.

• Learning

• Acquisition & Reversion

• Stages of Learning

is a generic term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading writing, reasoning or mathematical abilities.

• Specific Learning Disabilities

• Measures of Mental Ability

• Learning disabilities

is explained by the factor called IQ achievement & discrepancy.

• The group of disorders is heterogeneous

• The significant

• The phenomenon

is made through a combination of observation, interviews, family history and school reports.

• diagnosis

• academic skills

• difficulties

Another significant concept to understand in teaching children with learning disabilities is the level of _________

• learner’s intellectual functioning or mental ability

• learner's ability

• learner's skills

The term learning disabilities was introduced in______ by Dr. Samuel Kirk, well-known American special education expert.

• 1963

• 1964

• 1965

In _________, special education for children with learning disabilities is only in these early years of implementation.

• Asia

• America

• Philippines

Part of the stages of learning where acquiring a new skills and knowledge takes place

• Acquisition

• Proficiency and Automaticity

• Reversion