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Dr. Palmquist 101
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This disorder is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity that is more frequent and severe than is typically observed in individuals at a comparable level of development.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
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Common areas of struggle for individuals suffering from ADHD are:
Concentration, distractibility, organization, completing tasks, sedentary tasks like reading, following directions, listening, sitting for lengthy periods, transitioning, and planning.
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How can individuals suffering from ADHD be supported?
By providing structure: Checklists, syllabi with due dates, study guides, review sheets, and providing access to class lectures and notes. Encourage them to sit closer to the front of the class.
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The inability to distinguish the differences between certain colors, which results from an absence of color-sensitive pigment in the cone cells of the retina.
What is color-blindness?
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An orderly grid, looking something like this Jeopardy game, that provides specific information on the parts of an assignment and how it will be graded.
What is a rubric?
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This disability is characterized by sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior.
What is Mild Intellectual Disability?
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Common areas of struggle for individuals with Mild Intellectual Disorder are:
The basic skills of reading, handwriting, spelling, written expression, and math.
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How can individuals suffering from Mild Intellectual Disorders be supported?
Encourage them to get help form the reading, writing, and math centers. If they are diagnosed with the disability, they can receive free tutoring to develop the skills they lack.
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How can individuals who suffer from Autism Spectrum Disorder be supported?
Help provide a highly structured classroom environment with fixed routines that can easily be followed by the individual. This is difficult in a physics classroom, especially during lab days (fight or flight).
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Something you should ask students to do before showing them a demonstration.
What is "make a prediction" or "make a hypothesis"?
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This is a permanent disorder that interferes with integrating, acquiring, and/or demonstrating verbal or nonverbal abilities and skills.
What is a Learning Disability?
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Common areas of struggle for individuals with Learning Disabilities are:
Reading comprehension, written expression, mathematics, oral expression, auditory processing, visual processing, abstract reasoning, visual spatial skills, processing speed.
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How can individuals suffering from Learning Disabilities be supported?
Help the student review essential concepts. Assess how much the individual knows, and explain what he or she does not yet know using diagrams, notes, and verbal explanations.
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How can Limited Language Proficient individuals be supported?
Gestures, visuals, demonstrations, and role playing can be effective to teach new concepts.
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Along with 1980's heavy metal, this type of trivia is the only other area of Dr. Palmquist's expertise.
What is sports?
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These disabilities are characterized by persistent psychological or psychiatric disorder, or emotional or mental illness.
What are Psychiatric Disabilities?
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Common areas of struggle for individuals with Anxiety Disorders are:
Mostly concentration, which interferes with the overall learning process. (Depression, anxiety, etc.)
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How can individuals suffering from psychiatric Disabilities be supported?
Be supportive and welcoming, establish rapport, make yourself approachable, spend extra time to help them catch up on work past due.
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These acts guarantee protection from discrimination and equal access to opportunity and participation for people with disabilities.
What are the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
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The most effective way to group students for complex tasks such as physics problem solving.
What is heterogeneous by ability?