accommodations
One of the first and foremost accommodations for a child with an orthopedic or physical impairment who will be coming to your classroom is:
Insure the physical space is accessible
You have student coming into your classroom who has been diagnosed as legally blind. Name 3 modifications you will ask for.
Enlarged texts; texts on tape; ASL interpreter etc.
Attributes of giftedness most frequently recognized by different states are:
intellectual giftedness; creativity; high achievement; intrinsically curious; ability to generate multiple ideas and solutions to problems
One technique to help a student with Autism to understand a particular social situation and/or help him/her with transitions is:
Social Stories
F.B.A and B.I.P are acronyms often associated with working with students with emotional disturbances; what do these acronyms stand for?
Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Improvement Plan
both teachers teach the same thing at the same time to smaller heterogeneous groups
What is team teaching
Excessive and intense fear associated with being away from home, family, and others whom the child has a close attachment is:
Separation anxiety disorder
Intellectual disabilities are characterized by significant limitations both in:
Intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior
3 characteristics of those ID'ed with an emotional disturbance are
What is trouble with peer/teacher relations; trouble learning not caused by other factors; illness; social phobias; truancy
one teachers teaches the content while the other teacher models or demonstrates
What is parallel teaching
P.B.S. refers to
What is Positive Behavioral Spports
Students with intellectual disabilities have an IQ's that are ____________ standard deviations below 100.
Two or more standard deviations below the mean.
typically there are 5 different components to qualifying a student as ED. 3 are...
What is observation; behavior rating scales; personality inventories; clinical eval; projective tests
A neural tube defect (NTD) that occurs when the neural tube (this surround the spine) does not close properly and developing brain or spine is left exposed to the amniotic fluid.
What is spina bifida
The 3 ways you can differentiate are through:
differentiate by product, by content or by process
( also for gifted students by community, interest, or learning styles )
3 accommodations for a student with a chronic health impairment may be:
Posting work on line; peer helper; sending work home; access to nurse upon demand
there are generally 6 subcategories of ED; three of these are
What is bi- polar; anxiety; eating; conduct; obsessive-compulsive; psychotic
3 benefits of co-teaching
What is self esteem; two personalities/ways of teaching; clerical; assistance immediately
Most common cause of accidental death and disabilities caused by closed or open injuries to the brain
What is TBI
What is embedded instruction?
spreading the instruction out during the day rather than in a certain time period (class)