Disability traits
This type of disability often manifests as difficulties with reading (dyslexia), writing (dysgraphia), or math (dyscalculia).
What is specific learning disability?
This law ensures students with disabilities have the right to education.
This type of support changes what a student is expected to learn, often by altering the curriculum or reducing complexity.
What are modifications?
This model views disability as a result of societal barriers rather than an individual's impairments, emphasizing the need to remove physical and attitudinal obstacles.
What is the Social Model of Disability?
This is the population schools were designed for.
Who are White, neurotypical, middle and upper class men?
These individuals have have challenges with societally-constructed "normal" social communication
Who are autistic individuals?
This civil rights law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in any program or activity receiving federal funding and provides accommodations through a plan named after it.
What is section 504?
Providing a student with large-print materials, allowing breaks during tests, and offering text-to-speech technology are examples of these.
What are accommodations?
This model focuses on diagnosing and treating an individual's impairments, viewing disability primarily as a problem to be fixed.
What is the Medical Model of Disability?
These two approaches to language describe individuals with disabilities, one emphasizing the person before the disability and the other embracing the disability as a core part of identity.
What are Person-First Language and Identity-First Language?
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This law ensures accessibility for individuals with disabilities in public spaces, schools, and workplaces, covering accommodations like ramps and accessible communication.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Provide clear goals, anticipate barriers, and design options
What is the UDL design process?
This paradigm views neurological differences, such as autism and ADHD, as natural variations of human diversity, rather than disorders to be fixed or cured.
What is the Neurodiversity Paradigm?
These tools, devices, or software help students with disabilities access the curriculum, including text-to-speech software, screen readers, and adaptive keyboards.
What is assistive technology?
This type of disability may include anxiety, depression, or disruptive behaviors, significantly impacting a student's ability to learn and form relationships
What are emotional and behavioral disorders?
These are the 13 disability categories under IDEA
What are Autism, Deaf-Blindness, Deafness, Emotional Disturbance, Hearing Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic Impairment, Other Health Impairment, Specific Learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Visual Impairment?
This strategy tends to increase student anxiety and shame rather than supporting engagement.
What is cold calling?
What is neurodivergent?
These tools and strategies help individuals with communication challenges express their thoughts, needs, and ideas, including devices like speech-generating tools and picture boards.
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)?
What are speech and language impairments?
These are the rights in special education under IDEA
What are due process, parental participation, IEPs, IFSPs, LRE, FAPE, transition planning, related services, nondiscriminatory assessment
This is what you should always assume.
What is that students with disabilities will be in your class and that it's normal?
This is a term to describe any group of people, including any group of students.
What is neurodiverse?
She existed
Who is Helen Keller?