Intellectual Disabilities & Communication Disorders
Behavior Management Strategies
Instructional Strategies
Differentiation & Accommodation
Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Learners
100
While IQ continues to play a major role in the diagnosis of intellectual disability, a measured deficit in this second area of function must also be displayed in order to be found eligible for services in this category in Georgia.
What is ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR?
100
Mr. Khasa provides students with a sticker for every event in which they provide an appropriate behavioral response. In this situation, the sticker acts as this item.
What is the POSITIVE REINFORCER?
100
This is a pictorial summary or visual representation of text.
What is a GRAPHIC ORGANIZER? (story or semantic map or content organizer also gets credit)
100
Altering the curriculum to the extent that basic course requirements as listed in the CCGPS are not met is an example of this kind of curricular change.
What is a MODIFICATION?
100
Overrepresentation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) groups is most likely to occur in this type of disability categories.
What is HIGH INCIDENCE? (also non-medical or invisible)
200
This person acts as a separate service provider for students with communication disorders.
Who is the speech language pathologist (SLP)?
200
This is a schoolwide behavior management approach that is rooted in an emphasis on rewarding positive behaviors.
What are Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)?
200
This is a math strategy that connects the dots between the concepts of symbols and the items that they represent.
What is CONCRETE REPRESENTATIONAL ABSTRACT (CRA)?
200
Putting students who are at approximately the same functional level in groups to work together is utilizing this method of grouping.
What is homogeneous?
200
A curriculum that fits the social, cognitive, communication, and emotional needs of students of a variety of cultural backgrounds instead of requiring all students to fit into one mainstream mold is an example of this type of teaching.
What is CULTURALLY RELEVANT TEACHING (CRT)?
300
This is the most common of speech disorders and it occurs when students cannot effectively produce the variety of sounds in the English language.
What are ARTICULATION DISORDERS?
300
Mrs. Diaz provides students with "Diaz Dollars" throughout the week when they engage in desired behaviors in the classroom. At the end of the week, students exchange their "dollars" for tangible items like stress balls, temporary tattoos, and pencils. This is an example of this type of classroom management system.
What is a TOKEN ECONOMY?
300
HOMES as a prompt for remembering the names of the Hreat Lakes is an example of this type of memory device.
What is a MNEMONIC DEVICE?
300
Differentiation can occur across these three areas.
What are process, product, and content?
300
In addition to racial/ethnic and gender backgrounds, these are THREE other areas of cultural diversity.
What are LANGUAGE, SES, RELIGIOUS, GENDER ORIENTATION, MILITARY, FAMILY STRUCTURE, DISABILITY, etc.
400
A picture communication board either on an iPad or physically constructed on a piece of cardboard that is used to send and receive messages is an example of this type of support.
What is an AUGMENTATIVE & ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAC) system?
400
This is an example of a classroom management plan that incorporates a group contingency plan.
What is YOUR EXAMPLE?
400
This is a highly structured format for taking notes that requires students to subdivide the page across different topic areas.
What are CORNELL NOTES?
400
Ms. Dubrowski provides cartoon pictures like the one in the example for all of the students in her classes every Monday when introducing a new vocabulary list. Three of the students in the class prefer to look up the definitions in the dictionary instead during this instructional segment. This is an example of:
What is DIFFERENTIATION?
400
Because of the confusion between second language acquisition and disability, students who are English Language Learners (ELL) are frequently both over and under represented in this specific category of disability.
What is COMMUNICATION DISORDERS? (or speech/language services)
500
Sasha has a diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, and he frequently makes errors in the social use of language. For this reason, the speech support he receives is in this area of usage.
What are PRAGMATICS?
500
This is a problem solving process for managing student behaviors with an emphasis on the antecedents and consequences to the specific problem behavior.
What is functional behavior assessment (FBA)?
500
This is an errorless learning strategy that provides students with an opportunity to provide the correct response to a vocabulary word prompt after a specified amount of wait time.
What is CONSTANT TIME DELAY?
500
This would be a great example of an anchor activity.
What is YOUR EXAMPLE?
500
Opting to read Steinbeck's "The Pearl" with an historical emphasis on a native Mexican population rather than "Of Mice and Men" with its emphasis on a middle American population is an example of this approach to multicultural education.