Understanding Inclusion
Special Education Process
Types of Disabilities
Characteristics of Different Disorders
Differentiation
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The term inclusion captures, in one word, an all-embracing societal ideology. Regarding individuals with disabilities and special education, inclusion secures opportunities for students with disabilities to learn alongside their non-disabled peers in general education classrooms.
What is Inclusion?
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They are able to receive special education services according to federal and state law.
Student with disabilities means
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Autism Multiple disabilities Specific learning disabilities Other health impairment Speech/language impairment Orthopedic impairment Emotional disturbance Visual impairment and blindness Hearing impairment and deafness Mental retardation Traumatic brain injury Development delay Intellectual disability
Number of categories of disabilities determined by IDEA
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An inability to learn, which cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors. An inability to build satisfactory relationships with peers and teachers. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal situations or circumstances.
Characteristics of Behavior Disorder
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A method of teaching that allows students alternate ways to understand concepts and to provide evidence that they have learned.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
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"Special education refers to a range of services that can be provided in different ways and in different settings.”
What is special education?
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Preferential seating, more time, alternative but equivalent materials, etc. These are aids to assist the assimilation into classrooms with their peers.
Supplementary Aids and Services
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Reading difficulties Poor motor abilities Inability to use cognitive strategies consistently Mathematical deficits Attention difficulties Psychological processing deficits Oral language difficulties Written language problems Social skills deficits
Characteristics of Learning Difficulties
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Difficulties in communication and social interaction and have restrictive or repetitive interests and behaviors. May not interact or make eye contact.
What is Autism?
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Differentiation can be defined as a teacher reacting responsively to a student's needs.
What is the Purpose of Differentiated Instruction?
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Students with disabilities
Who is eligible for Special Education?
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These change HOW the curriculum is completed--but it does not significantly alter what is learned.
Accommodations
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Students read at a slower rate and often do not read with expression or intonation. Affected by learning disabilities that affect processing.
What is Fluency Difficulty?
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A persistent pattern of inattention and or hyperactivity. Impulsivity that is more frequent and severe than is typically observed at a comparable level of development. Occurs in 3 - 6% of children, mostly boys from low-income families. Increase in substance abuse, risk-taking, and criminal behaviors among adolescents and adults.
What are Attention Disorders?
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How you change to meet needs: Content—what we teach - each group can have different content How you teach it: Process—how students come to understand and obtain knowledge and skills - Whole group to small group - Powerpoint, manipulatives How they show you what they have learned: Products—how students demonstrate what they have learned -Tests/ project/etc.
What are three things you can differentiate?
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Special education services
If students do not respond to intervention (RTI) by the second tier of intervention, they are referred to:
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Careful planning so that instruction is designed prior to delivery to be accessible by all students.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
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Spelling, language processing, and written language.
What is Impact of Learning Difficulties on Written Language?
400
A serious emotional disorder affecting between .5 and 1% of people. Hallucinations and delusions, disorganized speech, or catatonic behavior are common symptoms, which frequently manifest in young adults.
What is Schizophrenia?
400
( An independent, or collaborative, instructional method) Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement.
What is cooperative learning?
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students with IEPs may spend some time of the school day here to receive individual or small group supplemental help. Located in a regular school
What is Resource room
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Significant limitations in intellectual ability and adaptive behaviors. Learn slower, and learning may level off.
What is Intellectual Disability?
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Often difficult because oral language processing requires sound discrimination to identify the sounds of individual letters and combinations of letters. This affects word analysis and fluency as well.
What is Spelling Difficulty?
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- Think-Pair-Share - Numbered Heads Together: give numbers in the begining of class - Jigsaw: put people in a group and only certain people in a group have a specific part, if one person does not do their work they will not have a group project/ makes other people in the group do their work peer pressure ( increases accountability - Learning Centers: special areas in class.
List and explain several cooperative learning techniques covered in classroom
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