Name that Disability
Prevalence
Educational Technique #1
Educational Technique #2
Other Disabilities
100
Defined as visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye after correction with glasses or contact lenses or a restricted field of vision of 20 degrees or less. A child could have no use of vision for academic content living in a world of darkness, so little vision he or she relies on other senses or rely on sight as a means of learning.
What is Blindness and Low Vision
100
1.2% of students are served under this category and receive special education services
What is Deafness and Hearing Loss
100
Refers to the need to tailor teaching environments, curricula and instructional practices to create appropriately different learning experiences for students with different needs, interests, readiness and learning profiles; this approach is commonly used for students who are gifted and need to be engaged in instruction through different learning methods most likely more challenging and complex.
What is Curriculum Differentiation
100
Any piece of equipment used to increase, maintain or improve the functional capabilities of a child with disabilities.
What is Assistive Technology
100
A long-term condition arising from impairment to the brain thus causing disturbances in voluntary motor functions.
What is Cerebral Palsy
200
As defined by IDEA, severe orthopedic impairment (or neuromotor impairment) adversely affects a child's educational performance due to a congenital abnormality (i.e., clubfoot, absence of a limb), disease or other causes (i.e., cerebral palsy, amputations, burns).
What is Physical Disabilities and Health Impairments
200
3 - 5% of the student population
What is Gifted and Talented
200
For most students with hearing impairments, this process of understanding a spoken message by observing the speaker's lip movements, facial expressions, eye movements and body gestures sometimes is advantageous in the classroom.
What is Speechreading
200
For students who are gifted, this involves compressing instructional content so students have time to work on more challenging materials through three steps: 1) assess students' knowledge and skills in the target content areas, 2) determine the content to be eliminated and 3) substitute in more appropriate content.
What is Curriculum Compacting
200
Maladaptive emotional state or behaviors caused by excessive and often irrational fears and worries.
What is Anxiety Disorders
300
This disability exists on a continuum from mild to pronounced and is distinguished between those who cannot understand speech through ears alone or those who can use hearing to understand speech, but generally with the help of hearing aids.
What is Deafness and Hearing Loss
300
50% of school-age children with physical impairments and chronic health conditions are served in the general education classroom.
What is Orthopedic Impairment (OI) and Other Heath Impairments (OHI)
300
The curriculum for students with visual impairments should also include systemic instruction in functional living skills such as:
What is cooking, cleaning, personal hygiene and grooming, shopping, financial management, transportation and recreational activities
300
A tactile, short-handed system of reading and writing in which letters, words, numbers and other systems are made from arrangement of raised dots and consists of 189 abbreviations (contractions) allowing faster reading and saving space.
What is Braille
300
Defined by IDEA as an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairments or both that adversely affects a student's educational performance.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
400
The federal government defines this as children who display and give evidence of high-acheivment capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic or leadership capacity or in specific academic fields and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.
What is Gifted and Talented
400
1 in 200 to 250 students are served with an IEP under this disability category.
What is Blindness and Low Vision
400
Special educators are helping students with severe disabilities learn to replace disruptive, aggressive, self-injurous or socially unacceptable behavior with a treatment approach consisting of four elements: 1) understanding the meaning that a behavior has for a student, 2) teaching the student a positive alternative behavior, 3) restructuring the environment to make the undesired behavior less likely to occur and 4) use strategies that are socially acceptable and intended for use in integrated settings.
What is Positive Behavioral Support
400
This approach views deafness as a cultural and linguistic difference, not a disability and recognizes American Sign Language (ASL) as the natural language of a child who is deaf; the goal is to help students become bilingual adults who are competent in their first language, ASL and can read and write in their second language, English.
What is Bilingual-Bicultural (Bi-Bi) approach
400
A long-term conditions where an individual gradually loses the ability to walk independently.
What is Muscular Dystrophy
500
Any student needed to be served in the special education classroom due to having a severe disability needing instruction in basic skills and ongoing support in order to participate into an integrated community and enjoy the quality of life or have a profound disability with delays in all domains of functioning.
What is Low-Indicedence Disabilities: Severe, Profound and Multiple Disabilities
500
Estimated 0.1 - 1% prevalence of children with severe disabilities and less than 3% of students with multiples disabilities, traumatic brain injury and deaf-blindness receive special education
What is Low-Incidence Disabilities
500
These people are concerned and involved with a child's development and maintenance of motor skills, movement and posture, prescribing specific exercises to help a child increase his or her control of muscles and use of specialized equipment effectively so the child reaches the highest potential to be as independent as possible.
What is Physical Therapists (PTs)
500
The concept that addresses a person's control in their abilities and desires to engage in expressive controls; a teacher can have a student monitor themselves closely to evaluate if he or she is doing what he or she is supposed to be doing by simply asking, "Am I on-task?" or "Am I presenting the appropriate and desire behavior the teacher expects of me?"
What is Self-Monitoring Behavior
500
Significant impairments in socialization with difficulties in either communication or restricted interests.
What is Persuasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)
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