Author Question: Which of the following is not true based on using the discrepancy score to identify children with ... (Read 74 times)

ssal · **on:** Sep 11, 2018

Which of the following is not true based on using the discrepancy score to identify children with specific learning disabilities?

A. The discrepancy requirement made it virtually impossible to identify young children as having a learning disability.
B. The discrepancy model identified children from diverse cultural and ethnic groups at the same rate as white children.
C. The discrepancy model required that children have repeated experiences with failure until the gap between IQ and achievement was large enough to meet the criteria for identification.
D. IQ scores are not good predictors of a childs ability to recognize words and do phonological decoding, the basic skills involved in reading.

Question 2

All of the following may be signs of specific learning disabilities during the preschool years except:

A. slow growth of vocabulary.
B. restlessness and lack of ability to persist at tasks.
C. difficulty playing with peers and other social skills.
D. problems learning to decode words.