What is Phonological Impairment?
Phonological impairment is one of the most common forms of speech sound disorder with cognitive linguistic difficulties that include the learning of the phonological system or language. Phonological impairment is characterized by pattern-based speech errors such as velar fronting. These errors may be delayed for a child’s age or disordered.
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What are Speech Sound Disorders?
Speech sound disorders, often abbreviated as SSD, are a form of communication impairment that is characterized by five specific types of impairment that include phonological, articulation, childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), inconsistent speech disorder, and childhood dysarthria. Included in SSD is a difficulty perceiving, articulating, and phonologically demonstrating that which
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What is the ESSA?
At the end of December 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law, effectively sweeping away NCLB (No Child Left Behind). This bipartisan measure reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the country’s oldest national education law, which is dedicated to providing equal opportunity to all
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What was NCLB?
Was an education law that promoted the setting of high standards, as well as the setting and conducting of standardized testing, with a view to develop certain fundamental and core skills, such as basic literacy. Schools are rated in terms of performance, with sanctions imposed against schools that are not
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What is Multicultural Education?
In its most basic sense, multicultural education is a progressive approach for transforming education based on educational equality and social justice. The components required in educating a multicultural education are content integrations, prejudice reduction, empowering school culture and social culture. These all relate and all require attention as they relate
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What is RTI?
Is a three-tiered approach to identifying learning disabilities, intervening to address, accommodate, and remediate students identified with these disabilities and helping them to be successful in school. Under the RTI model, it is often a teacher who notices a problem with student progress and initiates the process. Teachers then implement
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What is Personalized Learning?
A learning model where students guide their own learning, going at their own pace and, in some cases, making their own decisions about what to learn. Ideally, in a classroom using personalized learning, students choose what they’re interested in and teachers fit the curriculum and standards to the students’ interests.
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What is Virtual Reality?
Refers to a computer-simulated environment, which may be a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world. Virtual reality sounds like a far-off futuristic concept. When we hear the words “virtual reality” we may think of people wearing big helmets that transport them to another location from the comfort
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What is Digital Literacy?
By this definition, encompasses a wide range of skills, all of which are necessary to succeed in an increasingly digital world. As print mediums begin to die out, the ability to comprehend information found online becomes more and more important. Students who lack digital literacy skills may soon find themselves
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Who are High School Teachers and What Do They Do?
Are highly trained specialists in one, two, or several subjects. They teach their specialty areas to high school students between the ages of 13 and 18. For example, a high school mathematics teacher might teach several classes of algebra and geometry, and a class or two of trigonometry and calculus.
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