Key Characteristics
There are ____ levels of Intellectual Disabilities.
What is 4 levels?)
This disability occurs when the mother drinks a lot of alcohol during pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?)
Providing physical examples and demonstrations. For example, having them drop their pencils to learn about and visualize the concept of gravity.
What is Hands-On?
This IEP team member educates students in the special education classroom.
What is Special Education teacher?
Mark has an IQ of 43. He has demonstrated difficulties with daily living skills and has not met some important developmental milestones. What could Mark's diagnosis be?
What is Intellectual Disability - Moderate?)
An _____ is a group of conditions caused by an impairment in one or more of the following areas: learning, physical, language, behavior.
What is an Intellectual Disability?
This disability can be caused during a post-birth accident, resulting in an injury to the head.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Teacher breaks tasks down into individual steps to help the student slowly understand a big concept.
What is Small Steps?
This specialist helps students with physical challenges.
What is the Physical Therapist?
Alice has been diagnosed with an Intellectual Disability. Her IQ score is a 29. What is her ID level?
What is Intellectual Disability - Severe?
True or False: individuals with Intellectual Disabilities demonstrate average skills required for daily living.
What is false? (Below average)
This is a seizure disorder.
Placing students with ID into small groups with their classmates to focus on a mini lesson provided by the teacher.
What is Group Learning?
This individual helps students learn in the Least Restrictive Environment and often collaborates with the special education teacher.
What is the General Education Teacher?
George becomes easily distracted and agitated during tests and assignments given in large groups. He often struggles to complete the test/assignment before the end of the allotted time period. What accommodations may help George?
What are extended test/assignment time, reduced number of questions, the use of a divider or separate testing/work space?
In toddlers (age 2-3 years old), signs of an Intellectual Disability can present by….
What are language delays or difficulties?
This disability is caused by a mutation in a chromosome.
What is Down Syndrome?
Teachers put this in the background to help students focus, and using educational songs that coincide with the lesson provide a visual stimulus helpful to students with ID.
What is Music?
This specialist helps students with speech, language, and hearing difficulties.
What is the Speech Language Pathologist?
Julia reads slowly in class and struggles to keep up with note taking while her teacher is teaching. She also has difficulty with reading fluency and comprehension when asked to read aloud. What accommodations may help Julia improve her reading?
What are "buddy reading," Assistive Technology, Graphic Organizers, Text-to-talk, voice recognition devices?
Academic underachievement may present itself in individuals with Intellectual Disabilities at what age?
What is School age –over 5 years old?
This is a genetic condition that causes a range of developmental problems including learning disabilities and cognitive impairment. Usually, males are more severely affected by this disorder than females.
What is Fragile X Syndrome?)
The use of charts and pictures are very helpful to a student with ID. Teachers can use a chart to track student behaviors, providing positive reinforcements for good behavior.
What is Visual Aids?
This IEP Team member can guide parents through the IEP process by helping them understand how to become effective members of school IEP teams.
What is the School Counselor (or) Social Worker?
Easton has been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. Stella has Down Syndrome. Chris has been diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury. Kaelie has hearing impairments. They are all students in your classroom. What kind of lesson can help break down curricular barriers for the students n this class (UDL)? Provide examples.
What is a multi sensory lesson? (Examples are flexible