Disability Category
Disability Characteristics
Impact on Learning
Teaching Strategies/Interventions
Mapleton Public Schools
100
This disability can be defined by a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language.
What is Specific Learning Disability?
100
Three basic impairments include articulation, voice and fluency?
What are the characteristics of a Speech Language Disability?
100
Many students with this disability exhibit eternalizing behaviors that cause deficits in academic functioning.
What is the impact on learning for students with an emotional disability?
100
Teaching memory strategies such as visual imagery, chunking information, mnemonics and connecting with information the student already knows are teaching strategies for this disability category.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury? (Multiple Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Learning Disability)
100
Wolverine
What is Mapleton's Mascot?
200
A child with this disability shall have reduced general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior.
What is an Intellectual Disability?
200
An estimated 71% of students with this disability also have expressive and receptive language disorders that impact their ability to understand and communicate with peers and adults.
What is a characteristic of an Emotional Disability?
200
Many students with this impairment have no cognitive, learning, perceptual, language, or sensory needs. Learning is mostly focused on accommodations necessary for students to have access to academic instruction.
What is the impact on learning for students with orthopedic impairments?
200
Phoneme awareness instruction, combined with explicit instruction connecting phonemes to alphabetic letters significantly improves early reading and spelling skills.
What is a teaching strategy for basic readingskills and/or spelling?
200
Ken Winslow
Who is the President of the Mapleton Public Schools Board?
300
A child with this disability shall be three through eight years of age.
What is a Developmental Delay?
300
This disability can be divided into three main areas: neuromotor impairments, degenerative diseases, and musculoskeletal disorders.
What are the characteristics of Orthopedic Impairment?
300
Students with this disability typically respond poorly to changes in routine, sometimes resulting in problem behaviors or self injurious behaviors.
What is the impact on learning for students with autism?
300
Frequent opportunities to practice reading.
What is a teaching strategy for reading fluency?
300
Sue-Lin Toussaint
Who is the Executive Director of Human Resources?
400
A child with this disability shall have emotional or social functioning which prevents the child from receiving reasonable benefit from general education
What is an Emotional Disability?
400
Children with this disability will typically share deficits in five distinct areas of development: intellectual functioning, adaptive skills, motor skills, sensory functioning, and communication skills.
What is Multiple Disabilities?
400
Students with this disability may have difficulties organizing their thought processes, their classwork, and their environment.
What is the impact on learning for students with a learning disability?
400
Self monitoring, re-teaching expectations and targeted social/emotional curricula are teaching strategies for this disability.
What is an Emotional Disability?
400
1903
What year was Adams County School District #1 (Mapleton) originally organized?
500
A child with this disability shall have limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment due to a chronic or acute health problem.
What is an Other Health Impairment?
500
Students with this disability may have a complex array of problems including medical/neurological symptoms, behavioral/emotional symptoms, cognitive symptoms and delayed social skills development.
What are the characteristics of Traumatic Brain Injury?
500
Adaptive skills, motor development, sensory impairment and communication are some areas that may impact learning for students with this disability.
What is the impact on learning for students with Multiple Disabilities (or Intellectual Disabilities)?
500
Social narratives, functional communication training (FCT), Video Modeling and Antecedent-based intervention (ABI) are only a few of the evidence based practices that are recommended for this disability category.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
500
Senator Mike Johnston
Who was the founding principal of Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts (MESA)?
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