Auditory Processing Disorder Key
1) You can’t handle the truth
2) Leonardo Da Vinci
3) Dover, Delaware
4) Anger management
5) Chattanooga, Tennessee
6) High-speed connection
7) Halle Berry
8) Juneau, Alaska
9) Please wait to be seated
10) Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
11) John & Bobby Kennedy
12) Scholastic Aptitude Test
13) Puerto Rico
14) Attention Deficit Disorder
15) Sarah Jessica Parker
16) Please enter your password
17) Hugh Jackman
18) Austin, Texas
Constructional Dyspraxia Key
The action of A Tale of Two Cities takes place over a period of
about eighteen years, beginning in 1775 and ending in 1793.
Some of the story takes place earlier, as told in the flashback.
(A Tale of Two Cities Study Guide. McGraw-Hill, Inc.)
Dyscalculia Key
The relationship between the length
of an adult’s femur (thigh bone) and
the height of the adult can be
approximated by the linear equations
Female
y = 0.432x – 10.44
Male
y = 0.449x – 12.15
An anthropologist discovers a femur
belonging to an adult female. The
bone is 16 inches long. Estimate the
height of the female
(College Algebra: Sixth Addition. R. Larson & R. P. Hostetler.
Houghton Mifflin Company)
Reading Disorder/Dyslexia Keys
If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,-But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.
If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.
If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,-Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.
(If by e. e. cummings)
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I suspect that children with learning disabilities must frequently experience
an “Alice in Wonderland” existence. Often we find that they must cope with
an unstable world, inconsistent adults and haphazard perceptions. They’re
confused by crazy symbols we give them, pressured by the length of time
in which to do it and frustrated by repeated failures. They do not learn the
traditional way, so we must teach them differently.
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…I was sitting on the verandah of my farm home in eastern Iowa when a
voice very clearly said to me, “If you build it, he will come.”
(Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella)
Language Comprehension Key
When April with its sweet showers has pierced the
drought of March to the root, bathing every vein in such
liquid by which virtue the flower is engendered, and when
Zephyrus with his sweet breath has also inspired the
tender plants in every wood and field, and the young sun
is halfway through Aries, and small birds that sleep all
night with an open eye make melodies, their hearts
pricked by nature, then people long to go on pilgrimages,
and pilgrims seek foreign shores and distant shrines
known in sundry lands, and especially they wend their
way to Canterbury from every shire of England to seek the
holy blessed martyr who has helped them when they were
sick.
(Beginning of the general Prologue from The Canterbury
Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - in Middle English)
Visual Processing Disorder Key