Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XXXV - Bulletin 1903-Louisiana Handbook for Students with Dyslexia › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section XXXV-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Accommodation
-any technique that alters the
				  academic setting or environment but generally does not change the information
				  or amount of information learned to enable a student to exhibit knowledge more
				  accurately.
Assessment
-the act or process of gathering
				  data in order to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of student
				  learning through observation, testing, interviews, screening, and
				  evaluation.
Developmental Auditory
				  Imperception
-difficulties in perceiving and using what is heard such
				  that the student may have difficulty with auditory processing, auditory
				  discrimination, and learning sound-symbol associations.
Dysgraphia
-difficulty with producing written
				  symbols, usually resulting in slow and poor quality handwriting.
Dyslexia
-an unexpected difficulty in reading
				  for an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader, most
				  commonly caused by a difficulty in phonological processing, which affects the
				  ability of an individual to speak, read, and spell, noting that phonological
				  processing is the appreciation of the individual sounds of spoken and written
				  language.
Dysphasia
-severe difficulty with expressive
				  and receptive oral language.
Evaluation
-the in-depth process of review,
				  examination, and interpretation of intervention efforts, test results,
				  interviews, observations, and other assessment information relative to
				  predetermined criteria.
Expressive Language
-the act of conveying
				  information through writing, speaking, or gesturing.
Fluency
-the clear, easy, written or spoken
				  expression of ideas.
Grapheme
-a written or printed representation
				  of a phoneme (e.g., t, ch, z).
IDEA
-Individuals with Disabilities Education
				  Act (Public
				  Law 105-17), also referred to as the special
				  education statute.
Linguistics
-the science of language,
				  including phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Morphology-
the study of words and how they
				  are formed.
Phoneme
-the smallest unit of sound capable
				  of signaling semantic distinction or meaning (e.g./sh/, /i/, /p/).
Phoneme Manipulation
-dropping, adding, or
				  moving phonemes to create new words or detached syllables.
Phoneme Segmentation
-the ability to
				  separately articulate the sounds of a spoken word in order.
Phonemic Awareness
-the awareness that spoken
				  words or syllables can be divided into a sequence of phonemes, which pertains
				  to the rule system and is a subcategory of phonological awareness.
Phonics
-an approach to teaching reading and
				  spelling that stresses symbol-sound relationships, especially in beginning
				  reading instruction.
Phonological Awareness
-an understanding that
				  words are made up of individual speech sounds as distinct from word meaning and
				  that those sounds can be manipulated.
Phonology
-the study of the speech sounds of
				  a language and the underlying rules of usage.
Receptive Language
-the act of understanding
				  information by listening, reading, or gesturing.
Related Disorders
-disorders similar to or
				  related to dyslexia such as developmental auditory imperceptions, dysphasia,
				  specific developmental dyslexia, developmental dysgraphia, and developmental
				  spelling disability.
Screening
-a brief examination, which
				  determines the presence or absence of an important impediment to
				  learning.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of
				  1973
-federal law found at  29 U.S.C. Secs. 706(7), 794, 794a, 794b. "No
				  otherwise qualified disabled individual...shall, solely by the reason of
				  his/her handicap, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination
				  under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
Semantics
-the study of meaning in
				  language.
Syntax
-the study of how sentences are formed
				  and of the grammatical rules that govern sentence formation.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:7(11),
				  R.S.
				  17:392.1 and
				  392.3.