Other Health Impairment
Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that is due to chronic or acute health problems and adversely affects academic performance.
What is other health impairment?
Significant delays or atypical patterns of development.
What are developmental delays?
The combination of concomitant impairments which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.
What is multiple disabilities?
Long lasting and most often permanent.
What is chronic condition?
Assesses 125 skills arranged in four developmental areas: gross motor, fine motor–adaptive, language, and personal-social.
What is The Denver II?
Limited physical mobility. Slow to perform such basic tasks as rolling over, grasping objects, and holding up their heads.
What is impaired motor development?
When seizures occur chronically and repeatedly.
What is epilepsy?
Motor development, cognitive development, communication and language development, social and emotional development, and adaptive development.
What are the primary developmental domains?
Slow acquisition of new skills, poor maintenance of new skills, limited communication skills, impaired motor development, deficits in self-help skills, infrequent social interactions, and stereotypic and challenging behaviors.
What are characteristics of multiple disabilities?
A chronic disorder of metabolism with early symptoms that include thirst, headaches, weight loss, frequent urination, and cuts that are slow to heal.
What is diabetes?
Sensitive indicators of progress administered repeatedly to determine growth over time and to show a child’s responsiveness to intervention.
Refers to the performance of a skill in settings or under conditions different from those in which the skill was learned initially.
What is generalization?
increasing independence by self-administering special health care routines, using adaptive methods and assistive technologies for mobility, communication, and daily-living tasks.
What is the parallel curriculum for other health impairments?
Must include:
- present levels of physical, cognitive, communication, social/emotional, and adaptive development
-the family’s resources, priorities, and concerns
-the measurable results or outcomes expected to be achieved
-the frequency, intensity, and method of delivering services
the natural environments in which early intervention services will appropriately be provided
-anticipated length, duration, and frequency of services
-identification of the service coordinator
-steps to be taken to support the transition of the toddler
What is an Individualized Family Service Plan?
Self-care, communication, literacy, recreation and leisure, choice making, and the general education academic curriculum.
What are the curriculum areas for multiple disabilities?