Students with Disabilities
The term that refers to disability categories that include learning disabilities, ADHD, and mild emotional/behavioral disorders.
What is high-incidence disabilities?
IDEA 2004 defines this as a "developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three."
Since CDC reports that 1 out of 68 children have been identified with this, some educators consider this as a high-incidence disability category!
What is ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)?
Approximately ____ percent of ELLs are second- or third-generation Americans who were born in the United States. Thus, although these students have some oral proficiency in English, they may still struggle with English literacy and content knowledge.
What is 60%?
The term that refers to the discrepancy that limits their access to and use of current technology in their homes and school for students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, students living in poverty, and students with disabilities.
What is the digital divide?
The term for the social language skills that guide students in developing social relationships and engaging in casual face-to-face conversations.
What is BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills)?
Students with ______________ experience difficulties with cognitive processes, including perceiving, processing, remembering, attending, expressing information, and performing executive functions.
What are learning disabilities?
A progressive genetic disorder found in girls that affects one's neurological development and often includes a loss of previously learned skills, and a loss of the functional use of one's hands.
What is Rett's Syndrome?
The Supreme Court decision that mandated that all undocumented students have the same right as U.S. citizens to attend public schools.
What is Phyler v. Doe (1982)?
___________ is treating everyone the same whereas ___________ means giving everyone what they need to be successful. The second one is a basic tenet of UDL principles.
What are equality and equity?
The term that refers to the language skills that relate to literacy, cognitive development, and academic development in the classroom.
What is CALP (Cognitive/ Academic Language Proficiency)?
The term that refers to Math-based learning disability
What is dyscalculia?
This involves familiarizing students with ASD with new activities, information, routines, strategies, and materials prior to introducing them in class.
What is priming?
_____________ is a federal law that guarantees homeless children the right to a free and appropriate public education in a mainstream school environment and seeks to eliminate barriers in school attendance.
What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
This law mandated that all educators be prepared to use UDL.
What is The Higher Education Opportunity Act?
______refers to the tenacity to persevere to attain positive outcomes and overcome some type of adversity, and _______ refers to having the resolve to take positive actions to pursue one's dreams or passions.
What are resiliency and grit?
Students with EBD can benefit from _________, a multidisciplinary process for collaboratively designing and delivering student- and family-centered educational, counseling, medical, vocational, and mental health services to address their unique strengths, challenges, and behaviors.
What is wraparound planning?
The concept of _____________ involves understanding of one's feelings and the feelings of others as well as the ability to use one's social and collaborative skills to establish and maintain relationships with others.
What is emotional intelligence?
Educational mode/program that employs both the native and the new language and culture of students to teach them while maintaining their first language and pride in their cultural backgrounds.
What is bilingual education?
By providing multiple means of appropriate supports for these 3 modalities, UDL can be implemented effectively in classrooms.
What are representation (presentation of content, directions etc.), action and expression (ways in which students show their learning), and engagement (practices to foster motivation)?
Successful collaboration and communication with other professionals requires __________ a logical relationship among the curriculum, learning goals, teaching materials, strategies used in the inclusive classroom, and supportive services programs.
What is congruence?
Whereas _____________ disorders refer to the verbal aspects of communicating and conveying meaning, ______________ disorders address one's ability to understand and communicate meaning.
What are speech-related and language-related disorders?
Students who are gifted and talented, but who also experience learning, social, organizational, and behavioral difficulties that affect their academic performance, self-concept, and socialization.
Who are the twice exceptional?
A phenomenon commonly observed in individuals learning a second language that relates to using words, phrases, expressions, and sentences from one language while speaking another language.
What is code switching?
A visual spatial illustration made up of lines and geometric shapes of the key terms that make up concepts and topics and their relationships or organization. It presents information through the use of webs, matrices, timelines, cycles, Venn Diagrams etc.
What is a graphic organizer?
This type of employment for individuals with disabilities provides ongoing assistance and services as they learn how to obtain competitive employment, perform and hold a job, travel to and from work, interact with coworkers, work successfully in integrated community settings, and receive a salary that reflects the prevailing wage rate.
What is supported employment?