What I thought knew?
A professional who must attain special accreditation in instructing students with learning issues, managing serious behavior problems, using technology, and knowing the Special Educational law.
What is a Special Educator?
The time it will take me to complete my Masters in SPED program after getting my BA.
Hopefully 2-3 years.
Being disabled is the same as being handicapped.
False. A disability is an inability to do something, a diminished capacity to perform in a specific way (an impairment); a handicap, however, is a disadvantage imposed on an individual.
Learning disabilities, communication disorders, and emotional disturbances are considered high-incidence disabilities. Deafness, blindness, and severe intellectual disabilities are considered...
What are low-incidence disabilities?
Key strategies in working with students with disabilities.
What are things I will learn as I move on in the program and in the field?
They differ from most (typical or average) individuals in a particular way that is relevant to their education.
What are exceptional learners?
A specially designed instruction that meets the unusual needs of an exceptional student and that requires special materials, teaching techniques, equipment and/or facilities.
What is special education?
Things to expect working in Special Education.
The unexpected.
IDEA ensures these rights.
This federal law ensures that all children and youths with disabilities have the right to a free, appropriate public education.
UEB is an abbreviation for this code.
What is Unified English Braille?
The law ensuring the rights of individuals with disabilities to nondiscriminatory treatment in other aspects of their lives.
American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The minimum age the majority of guide dog programs in the US require handlers to be.
What is 16 years or older?
A group sharing a set of specific abilities or disabilities that are especially valued or that require special accommodation within a given subculture.
What is an exceptionality group?