Strengths and Challenges of Students with Disabilities
Transitions, Self-Determination, Acceptance
Differentiating instruction
Differentiating reading, writing, and spelling
Evaluating student Progress
100

The most common childhood psychiatric condition, affecting 10% of students. 

ADHD

100

This method can be used to prepare students for academic, behavioral, and social expectations of the inclusive setting.

Preteaching

100

differentiated assessments to meet the strengths and challenges of individual students. 

Tiered Assignments

100

This term refers to the speed and accuracy with which students read orally.  

Reading fluency 

100

This allows students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests. 

testing accommodations

200

An anxiety disorder where students fail to communicate in selective social situations or environments. 

Selective Mutism

200

The unstated, culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful functioning in classrooms, schools, and social situations. 

hidden curriculum 

200

This term involves teaching a diverse group of students individualized skills from different curricular areas.

Curriculum overlapping 
200

The awareness of sound

phonological awareness 

200
This person can monitor students for signs of fatigue and adjust the testing schedule and administration accordingly. 

Proctor

300

Students who have learning disabilities and are also gifted and talented are known as this.

Twice exceptional

300
A type of inclusive community-based learning program where all students collaborate to perform and reflect on experiential actives that foster their learning and benefit the community. 

service learning

300

This instructional technique alters the content of the curriculum as well as the ways students are taught

modifications

300

This method gives students opportunities to read or listen to text prior to reading.

Previewing 

300

A condition characterized by extreme stress, nervousness, and apprehension that significantly impairs their ability to perform on tests or other types of evaluative activities. 

test anxiety 

400

This approach is known as adopting a competency-base approach which calls on educators to challenge conventional notions of disability that are associated with norm-based expectations and negative connotations.

neurodiversity

400

This teaches students to function independently during free-time activities at school, home, and in the community. 

Leisure Education
400

A method of teaching that involves a dialogue between you and your students

Reciprocal Teaching

400

Terms that students encounter across the curriculum as well as technical language associated with specific content areas.

Academic Language  

400

This term refers to the use of test items whose correct answers require students to answer preceding questions correctly. 

hinging 

500

Prior to a seizure, students may experience this which is also called a prodrome. 

Aura

500

The belief that individuals with disabilities are in need of assistance, fixing, and pity.

Ableism 

500

A technique used to improve students' vocabulary through modeling, repeated practice, and movement. 

total physical response 

500

Small heterogeneous groups of students who work collaboratively to share their reactions to and discuss various aspects of books that all group members have decided to read

literature circles

500

A method used to increase the amount of information obtained from assessment procedures.

Error Analysis