Litigation Has Played an Important Part into How We Use

question 17

Essay

Litigation has played an important part into how we use intelligence testing to identify students with special education needs. Choose one court case and discuss its significance in changing how we use IQ tests.

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Definitions:

Syntax

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Linguistic Relativity

The hypothesis that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.

Morphemes

The smallest units of language that carry meaning, which can be words themselves or parts of words, such as prefixes or suffixes.

Phonemes

The basic units of sound in a language that distinguish one word from another, for example, the difference between the p in "pat" and the b in "bat".