Hearing Impairment
ASL stands for
What is American Sign Language
Enlarged print and high-contrast materials are especially helpful for students with this type of visual condition.
What is Low Vision
Technology used for students with hearing impairments.
What are wearing aids, cochlear implants, closed captions, FM system
This federal law ensures a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to students with disabilities
What is IDEA
A student who is both gifted and has a disability is described using this two-word phrase.
What is twice-exceptional
Appropriate ways to approach students with visual impairments
What is tap on the shoulder, wave
Type of blindness that doesn't have a physical cause but rather a psychological factor
functional/phycological blindness
Technology used by visually impaired students using textile raised dots
What is braile
This is the chronic condition that causes inflammation and narrowing of the airways, leading to difficulty breathing
What is asthma
These tests are used to measure cognitive abilities and intelligence in students, often for identifying giftedness
What are IQ tests
Services of an audiologist
What are evaluations, treatments, rehabilitations
The legal definition of blindness in the U.S. is 20/200 vision or less in the better eye with correction
What is legal blindness
Accomodation that allows students to read what they are listening to when watching a video
What is closed captions
This law, signed in 1990, guarantees equal access to public spaces and services for people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disability Act
Gifted students might be encouraged to study a subject in greater depth using this strategy, which includes adding complexity or expanding content beyond the standard curriculum
What is enrichment
Types of hearing loss
What is conductive, sensorineural, central hearing
How visual impairments occur
Congenital and adventitious
This piece of technology converts printed text into speech or Braille
What is Optical Character Recognition
Factors cerebral palsy can be caused by
What are prental, perinatal, and pastnatal
This law requires schools to identify and serve all student populations equitably, including those who are gifted, though giftedness is not mandated under IDEA
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act
Percent of population over 18yrs have some form of hearing impairment
What is 15 percent
Percent of students qualified as special Ed. live with visual impairments
A way for non verbal communication can be expressed through pointing at pictures.
What is a communication board
This is the term for a lack of oxygen during birth that can lead to cerebral palsy
What is hypoxia
These documents created by a school district are meant to outline the educational goals and services for gifted students
What are gifted education plans