Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
This instructional support helps students predict routines and expectations.
What are visual schedules?
This communication system may use symbols, devices, or pictures to support communication.
What is AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)?
This support displays spoken words as text.
What is captioning?
This learning disability primarily affects reading.
What is dyslexia?
Giving students what they need to succeed is called this.
What is equity?
This technology amplifies sound for students with hearing loss.
What are hearing aids?
Repeating words or phrases over and over is called this.
What is echolalia?
Difficulty understanding language is known as this type of language challenge.
What is receptive language difficulty?
This type of hearing loss involves the outer or middle ear and is often treatable.
What is conductive hearing loss?
This learning disability affects writing and written expression.
What is dysgraphia?
This teaching approach presents information visually, verbally, and hands-on.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
Students with ASD may struggle with transitions due to this characteristic.
What is inflexibility or insistence on sameness or "stickiness"?
Student with ASD does not like tags, zippers or scratchy fabric.
What is hyper sensory?
This fluency disorder involves speech that is overly fast and difficult to understand.
What is cluttering?
Teachers should do this instead of turning away while speaking.
What is face the student while speaking?
This support strategy breaks large tasks into smaller manageable parts.
What is chunking?
This seating strategy places students where they can best access instruction.
What is preferential seating?
This term means teaching important vocabulary before instruction begins.
What is pre-teaching vocabulary?
The DSM-5 requires deficits in this major area of functioning.
What is social communication and interaction?
This motor speech disorder involves difficulty planning speech movements.
What is apraxia?
This cultural and linguistic community focuses on sign ASL and shared experiences.
What is Deaf Culture?
This math-related learning disability affects number processing.
What is Dyscalcula?
This instructional strategy teaches the same learning goal in different ways.
What is differentiated instruction?
This principle means fair does not always mean the same.
What is equity vs equality?
This term describes intense detail in specific topics or objects
What are fixed interests?
This disorder affects the physical production of speech sounds due to muscle weakness or damage.
What is dysarthria?
When using an interpreter, you should maintain eye contact with this person.
Who is the Deaf individual/student?
These skills include planning, organizing, and task management.
What are executive functioning skills?
These supports may include extended time, alternative formats, or scribing.
What are accommodations?
This approach focuses on student strengths rather than deficits.
What is a strength-based approach?