Child Development
Overview of Paraprofessionals
Getting Started
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 & UVM Web-site
Chapter 3 & UVM Web-site
100
Keys to a successful start include these 2 important tips.
What are initial interactions and information gathering?
100
The _________________________ is responsible for designing lessons, making specialized adaptations, and serving as primary communicator between student and parent.
What is certified educator (special educator teacher and/or general educator)?
100
More than two people who come together and have a shared vision, meaning, and purpose.
What is a team?
100
Although it can have negative conotations once "given" to a student with disabilities,this is the current system used in the United States by which students receive special education services/funding.
What is labeling?
100
Name the 13 disabilities identified by the federal definitions.
What is autism, deaf-blindness, deafness, emotional disturbance, hearing impaired, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, OHI, tramautic brain injury, learning disability, speech-language impairment, and blindness.
200
Maintain confidentiality about all personal information, respect legal and human rights, follow policies, know roles of educational personnel, respect supervisors directions, maintain personal attendance, demonstrate loyalty, integrity, respect for cultural diversity, follow chain of command, & show vigiliance working with young children.......adults have great power over children.
What are ethical responsiblities?
200
These 3 extended team members provided services for students by means of: (1)ã health professional that utilizes the application of purposeful goal-directed activity in the assessment and treatment of persons with disabilities. (2)therapy for the preservation, enhancement, or restoration of movement and physical function (3)provides therapy to students with communication disorders, language/voice impairment that affects educational performance.
What are occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists?
200
Members of a collaborative team.
Who is general educator, special educator, related services (OT, PT, SLP), paraprofessional, inclusion specialists?
200
True or False......Children labeled with Autism work best in classroom environments that use visual information rather than auditory, structured routines that are consistent, expectations are clear, inclusive, interaction with peers, and concepts broken into simpler units so takes less time for accomplishments to occur.
What is true?
200
This is the most common learning disability.
What is reading?
300
Development in each domain is influenced by development in other domains, development occurs in an orderly/predictable manner, development occurs at different rates/areas within an individual, development is affected by experiences, development results from a child's biological, environmental, and cultural influences.
What are 5 principles of growth and development?
300
________________________ is the full acceptance of all students and leads to a sense of belonging within the classroom community. Everyone works together to create an environment where all are welcomed regardless of disability.
What is inclusion?
300
Following an agenda, sharing roles, celebrate successes, keeping minutes, time limits, regularly scheduled meetings, encouraging face to face contact, and assigning tasks to be completed by next meeting are all strategies for ______________________.
What is collobartive team success?
300
Students have subaverage general intelligence functuning which manifests during the develop period and exists along with deficits in adaptive behavior and adversely affacts a child's educational performance.
What is definition for mental retardation?
300
Documentation of student's learning priorities.
What is an IEP?
400
Reviewing child development on regular basis helps educators ________________ and ________________ children's past.
What are know and understand?
400
True or false...Certified personnel can train paraprofessionals to implement a specific teaching strategy to help students.
What is true?
400
Flexibility, attitude of gratitude, neither undervalue or overvalue individual abilities, respect differences, hard workers, willing learners, competent, and share responsiblities are characteristcs of _________________.
What are effective team members?
400
Students demonstrate certain characteristics over a long period of time that interfere with learning.
What is definition of emotional disturbance?
400
Responding directly/honestly/accurately/ using concrete information to classmates when they ask about a student with disablities giving them alternate means to communicate/play with them, maintain dignity of all students, emphasize similarities but celebrate diversity, and create situations where all can be successful. All of these are strategies to __________________.
What is facilitate friendships and promote acceptance of all?
500
True or False.....educators can save time by doing for children on a regular basis rather than having them doing for themselves.
What is false?
500
Paraprofessional ____________________ responsiblities include clerical tasks, monitor students in lunchroom/hallways/media center, specific personal care, etc.
What is non-instructional?
500
The issues teams should reach consensus on before the first day of school are ____________, _____________, ________________, ________________, _____________. (Para Form 6)
What is planning, instruction, student behavior, communication, and evaluation?
500
Communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language/voice impairment that adversely affects education performance.
What is speech language impairment?
500
1. Observe an ongoing activity and comment to the child, "Wow, look...Sammy is playing with the boats at the water table. Would you like to play, too?" 2. Take the child to the group and play along until he/she is actively engaged. 3. After doing this several times, prompt the child by saying, " Would you like play "house" with Susie?" "Go ask/tell her you would like to play with her." These steps in which process......
What is modeling for a student to enter an ongoing play activity?
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