What are the characteristics of a student with a specific learning disability (SLD)?

• Excellent academic performance
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Advanced reading abilities
• Difficulties in one or more academic areas

Which one is NOT a characteristic of a specific learning disability?

• Poor motor abilities

• Oral language difficulties

• Low IQ

• Information processing problem

Specific learning abilities are...

• high IQ

• attention, perception, memory, and processes of receiving, associating, and expressing information

• social skill deficits

• written language difficulties paired with social skill and oral language difficulties

What is the difference between the discrepancy model and RTI/ MTSS approach?

• Using the discrepancy model, LD can determined through a combination of cognitive and academic testing, while using RTI all that is required is documentation that the student has been unable to respond to appropriate interventions which have been provided within the classroom.

• Using the RTI model, LD can determined through a combination of cognitive and academic testing, while using the Discrepancy Model all that is required is documentation that the student has been unable to respond to appropriate interventions which have been provided within the classroom.

RTI is favored by IDEA 2004 as the best way to identify a student as having a specific learning disability.

• True

• False

RTI is preventative and forces schools to be proactive with their mainstream interventions.

• True

• False

How does a student qualify for special education services under the category of specific learning disability?

• The student is behind due to a global pandemic and a poor home life.

• The student has learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of intellectual disability, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.

• The student has a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.

When identifying a student with a learning disability one must consider...

• That the difficulties are not the result of environmental disadvantage.

• That the difficulties are not the result of cultural or economic disadvantages.

• That the difficulty is not the result of poor teaching.

• All of the above

Ohio laws require student data on response to intervention before formal evaluation will take place.

• True

• False

What is the purpose of RTI in schools?

• To reward high-achieving students.

• To punish students for their mistakes.

• To increase the workload for teachers.

• To identify and provide support to struggling students.