High Incidence
This disability represents the highest proportion of students receiving Special Education services in the schools.
What is a learning disability?
What were five formerly separate disorders - autism, Asperger's, PDD-NOS, Rett Syndrome, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder - are now found within this single category.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
This developmental variation in learning is characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior and is generally evident prior to the age of 18.
What is intellectual disability (aka cognitive impairment)?
This accidental occurrence, which medicine once thought was a minor issue, has brought TBI to the forefront of attention, despite it being a fairly low incidence disability.
What is a concussion?
In this frame of reference, we would refer to an individual with a disability as "a person with dyslexia" rather than "a dyslexic person."
What is "person/people-first language?"
We tend to categorize impairments or challenges in this disability area as being receptive, expressive, or a combination of the two.
What are speech and language impairments?
Like Rodrigo in "our class," when a student will only wear the same color, eat the same food, and strongly resists changes in the routine, we generally refer to this as _________________
What is "insistence on sameness"?
Generally found within the classification of Physical and Health Impairments, these two physical disability categories include such conditions as cerebral palsy, juvenile arthritis, and epilepsy.
What are Muscular/Skeletal Disorders and Neuromotor Impairments?
Within this category/classification, individuals have more than one disability, one of which is often an intellectual disability, and require extremely intensive, sustained, individualized instruction and support which can not be provided in a specialized program for any one of the disabilities alone.
Who are the multiply disabled?
Rather than a specific label or diagnosis, research suggests students are better served and supported when we consider these degrees to which an individual’s performance is challenged.
What is dyslexia?are mild, moderate, severe, and profound?
Evidence-based self-management strategies which should be taught to all individuals with this particular challenge include: self-monitoring, self-talk, goal setting, and self-reinforcement.
What is ADHD?
In this theory of autism, students with autism struggle to understand the perceptions and beliefs of others.
What is theory of mind?
Within the classification of Physical and Health Disabilities, conditions, including such things as Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle cell anemia, childhood diabetes, hepatitis B, and HIV/AIDS, tend to be divided into these two distinct categories.
What are Chronic Illnesses and Infectious Diseases?
In this instructional model, which is typically designed and delivered by Special Ed. teachers, job coaches, and vocational specialists, and paraprofessionals students work on functional skills in authentic settings such as work sites, grocery stores, restaurants, apartments.
What is community-based instruction?
The IDEA is part of public education law, and, as such, does not have any authority with colleges and universities. Accommodations and interventions at post secondary and employment levels are supported and governed through this law.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
These students exhibit chronic, severe, and pervasive challenges impacting their thinking, feeling, mood, or interaction with others in the environment.
Who are EBD students?
This visual system is a validated practice used to improve expressive communication skills.
What is PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System?
These individuals teach blind and visually impaired students to navigate community, home, school, and classroom to facilitate greater safety and independence and success in varied environments.
What are orientation and mobility instructors?
Through an Individual Family Service Plan, these individuals can receive therapies and their families can receive support and training.
Who are infants and toddlers?
Perhaps more so than within any other category, individuals with this specific challenge do not see themselves as having a "disability," but see their challenge as part of their identity and see themselves as members of a group with its own language, history, and culture.
What is the Deaf Community?
This model of intervention within the schools was specifically designed to catch students before they fail and to provide services to many of the high incidence disabilities without initially requiring a Special Education placement.
What is Response to Intervention (RtI)?
This autistic woman, with her tendency to think in pictures and reputation as a highly respected livestock scientist, is a well-known national and international advocate for the autistic community.
Who is Temple Grandin?
To assist this population in the classroom, be sure to face the class when speaking, articulating clearly, but not speaking overly loudly, and speak a bit more slowly but avoid exaggerated mouth movements.
Who are the hard of hearing/hearing impaired?
Not just for those with low incidence disabilities, but for all Special Education students, as they turn 14 years of age, it is essential to develop one of these as part of the process of planning for future outcomes.
What is an Individualized Transition Plan (ITP)?
Within this category of disability, which would include such internalizing conditions as anorexia, bulimia, anxiety, and depression, students may come to define themselves by their disability as opposed to their capabilities.
What are emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD)?