Intellectual Disability
In the absence of conclusive evidence teachers assume that all students can participate in an age-appropriate general education curriculum as well as form meaningful relationships.
What is presuming competence?
1975- This Act was signed into law to ensure that all children labeled with disabilities are provided with equality of educational opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency
What is the Education for all Handicapped Children Act which was renamed as IDEA in 1990?
Behaviors Must be exhibited over a long period of time and to a marked degree that affects a child’s educational performance;Inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers or teachers; Inappropriate behaviors or feelings under normal, calm conditions
What is an emotional/behavioral disorder?
The ability to understand what is meant by spoken language, an example - the ability to follow spoken directions.
What is receptive language?
paper towels
What was used to clean up coffee spills almost every week?
Refers to an individual’s ability to meet the social requirements of his or her community that are appropriate to their chronological age; it is an indication of independence and social competency.
What is adaptive behavior?
A disorder that is manifested in understanding or using language, spoken or written which may manifest in an imperfect ability to listen, speak, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations
What is a Learning Disability?
Elements of this type of intervention program.Evidence-based, progress monitoring, multi-tiered, bench mark assessments.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
The production of language that is understood by and meaningful to others.
What is expressive language?
Game where questions and answers recorded on website are presented and some students were pretty darn competitive.
What is Kahoot?
Various forms and degrees of support suited to help a student reach a goal. As the student becomes increasingly competent, the support is gradually removed
What is scaffolding?
Pre-teach a lesson to an individual student labeled with a disability while the rest of the class is doing silent, independent work.
What is frontloading?
Areas involved in organizing, planning and attention, ability to self-regulate behaviors including memory, motivations, etc..
What is executive Functioning?
One of the most important tools in the assessment process for speech and language impairments
What is a "Case History"?
Janice stopped herself from doing this almost every week during discussions.
What is swearing?
Meningitis and encephalitis are two examples of infections that can cause this type of disability.
What is an intellectual Disability?
Academic deficits are the hallmark of learning disabilities. Name two of the disabilities the individuals labeled with LD may experience.
What are reading disabilities, dysgraphia, spoken language disability, dyscalculia?
Possible causes of emotional or behavioral disorders.
What are biology, family, school, and culture?
Direct instruction on things such as interpreting body language, receiving negative feedback, understanding the feelings of others; maintaining a conversation
What is social skills training?
Students count off 1-8
What is the process used to get all classmates to know each other even though students didn't actually want to move at first?
Involves two related areas: community adjustment and employment and must be created by the time a student with ID is 16.
What is a transition plan?
Chronic over time; generally pervasive behaviors across situations and settings; deviant from age-based standards; increased likelihood of having an LD or emotional disorder which is referred to as co-morbidity.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder?
What are the two major dimensions of disordered behavior based on analyses of behavior ratings.
Externalizing and internalizing
Characterized by repetitive activities, stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or to daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Some students may have found this to be an annoying task.
What are weekly quick writes?
Curriculum designed around observations, interviews with a guardian, the student, examination of student portfolios of classwork.
What are evidence-based instructional decisions?
Something to be cured or fixed according to the medical model.
What is a disability?
Has the ability to perpetuate stigmatism, prejudice, while also can promote justice, accessibility, respect.
What is the power of spoken, written, and body language?
Potentially the last social movement that must be addressed in order to promote authentic equity and inclusion in society.
What is the disability (civil) rights movement?
Gender, race, religion, past schooling experiences. ethnicity, etc.
What is the personal baggage/identity of a teacher that they bring into the classroom and which affects their interactions with their students?