Name that Disability
Prevalence
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Other Disabilities
100
IDEA defines this as "significant sub-average intelligence with existing deficits in adaptive behaviors during the developmental period and impacts educational performance."
What is Intellectual Disabilities
100
3 - 6% receive special education in schools.
What is Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
100
Students with emotional and behavioral disorders benefit from skills that can help students develop control over their environment, responsibility for their actions and academic achievement through teacher's good classroom management with proactive strategies to promote a positive, enjoyable learning experience that condones appropriate behavior.
What is Self-management skills
100
These are memory-enhancing strategies used to help students with specific learning disabilities so that they are better able to recall specific academic content. Three most commonly used mnemonic strategies include: letter strategies, keyword and pegword method. For example, Never Eat Soggy Wheaties is used to remember the four points on a compass.
What is Mnemonics
100
Difficulty distinguishing certain colors especially red-green due to the absence or malformed cones, macular deficiency or heredity.
What is Color blindness
200
Defined as a disability where a child's behavior differs extremely and chronically (over time) form current social or cultural norms, which in turn affects the child's educational performance.
What is Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
200
2.5% of school-age children receive special education for speech and language impairments with twice as many boys being served than girls.
What is Communications Disorders
200
Strategic framework made up of organizational systems and research-based, scientifically validated intervention practices for establishing positive school culture and teaching and supporting appropriate behaviors that enable the academic and social behavior success of all students providing universal support for all students and targeted interventions.
What is Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS)
200
Explain social situations and the expected behavior of the people involved in a format understandable to a student with ASD resulting in a decrease of anxiety, improves behavior and helps the student understand events from a different perspective.
What is Social Stories
200
A specific learning disability that is neurological and characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities resulting from a deficit in the phonological component of language.
What is Dyslexia
300
As defined by as IDEA, this disability means a developmental disability affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is Autism
300
7.8% receive special education until this category.
What is Intellectual Disabilities
300
A child with an intellectual disability could benefit from and receive effective instruction through the process of breaking down complex or multistep skills into smaller, much earlier-to-learn subtasks which are sequenced in natural order (the order they are typically performed) or from easiest to hardest.
What is Task Analysis
300
This educational approach refers to a diverse set of strategies and methods to assist an individual who cannot meet his or her communication needs through speech or writing; it consists of three components: 1) representational symbol set or vocabulary, 2) a means for selecting the symbols and 3) a means for transmitting the symbols.
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
300
A congenital condition that may cause loss of sensation and severe muscle weakness in the lower part of the body.
What is Spina Bifida
400
Defined by IDEA as a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.
What is Specific Learning Disabilities
400
Boys are affected about four to five times more often than are girls and occurs at a mere 1% in adolescents.
What is Autism
400
Some students with a specific learning disability benefit most from teacher-prepared handouts that provide an outline of the lecture content, which students complete during class lecture by writing in key facts, concepts and/or relations.
What is Guided Notes
400
For a child with an intellectual disability, the teacher effectively provides a prompt (i.e., verbal directions, pictures, recorded auditory prompts) that make a positive response very probable; the teacher reinforces the correct response, the prompt is repeated, and another student is praised for his or her response. Eventually the prompt is removed and a child will respond to natural cues of his or her every day environment.
What is Transfer of Stimulus Control
400
At the mild end of the Autism spectrum, this disorder has the distinctive feature of social impairment particularly the inability to comprehend how to socially interact and general language delay when speaking.
What is Aspergers syndrome
500
As defined by the ASHA, is an impairment in the ability to receive, send, process and comprehend concepts or verbal, nonverbal and graphic symbol systems, and may be noticed in the processes of hearing, language and/or speech.
What is Communication Disorders
500
This category makes up the largest category in special education representing almost one half of all students receiving special education with three times as many boys identified than girls.
What is Specific Learning Disabilties
500
This educational approach/behavior modification technique uses a variety of procedures to help individuals acquire and generalize new skills and addresses a student's social interactions, communication skills and repetitive stereotypical patterns of behavior (i.e., specific interests, topics or activities).
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
500
Also referred to as a speech therapist, speech clinician or speech teacher, is a school-based professional with the primary responsibility of identifying, evaluating and providing therapeutic services to a child with a communication disorder with the goal of correcting the child's speech and/or language problems to help the child achieve maximum communicative potential.
What is a Speech-language Pathologist (SLP)
500
A child displays a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli resulting in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment that adversely affects academic performance.
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)
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