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Developmental delay
- Establishing procedures and routines
- Case study of a 5 year old boy with unilateral hearing loss
- hands-on learning
- multiple learning strategies
- Engaging in frequent discussion
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Specific Learning Disability
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Perceptual Difficulties
- Do not present two pieces of information together
- Highlight the important characteristics of new material
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Attention Difficulties
- Break long tasks or assignments into smaller segments
- Present limited amounts of information on a page
- Gradually increase the amount of time a student must attend to a task or lecture
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Autism
- Ted Talks: A new way to diagnose autism
- individualized interventions
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classroom setting and all instructional materials must be organized to best reflect the learning styles of these students, and the delivery of instruction must also follow suit
- visual supports and cues.
- Picture symbols
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instructional goals in the daily routines of the student
- thematic teaching
- integrated curriculum
- Autism Case Studies
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Intellectual Disability
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Ted Talks
- Let's Talk About Intellectual Disabilities_ Loretta Claiborne at TEDxMidAtlantic.mp4
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direct instruction in a number of skill areas outside of the general curriculum
- money concepts
- time concepts
- independent living skills
- self-care and hygiene
- community access
- leisure activities
- each one concept or activity component at a time
- Teach one step at a time to help support memorization and sequencing
- Teach students in small groups, or one-on-one, if possible
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Orthopedic impairment
- Special seating arrangements to develop useful posture and movements
- Instruction focused on development of gross and fine motor skills
- Securing suitable augmentative communication and other assistive devices
- Awareness of medical condition and its affect on the student
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Multiple disabilities
- peer tutoring.
- Assistive technology
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Traumatic brain injury
- Provide repetition and consistency
- Demonstrate new tasks, state instructions, and provide examples to illustrate ideas and concepts
- Avoid figurative language
- Reinforce lengthening periods of attention to appropriate tasks
- Teach compensatory strategies for increasing memory
- Useful website
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Visual impairment, including blindness
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Assistive technology
- Ted Talks: How new technology helps blind people explore the world
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Other health impairment
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AD/HD
- Allow extra time
- Case Study: Teaching Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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Emotional disturbance
- Wraparound planning
- allowing students to choose between classroom task
- Forming a relationship built on empathy, trust, and mutual respect
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Hearing impairment
- regular speech, language, and auditory training from a specialist
- Use of amplification systems
- favorable seating in the class to facilitate speechreading
- assistance of a notetaker who takes written notes
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Deaf-blindness
- Predictable Chart Writing
- Emergent Literacy Goals
- Partner Assisted Scanning
- PowerPoint Book Templates
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Deafness
- articulation skills
- Use preferential seating
- Work closely with langauge pathologist
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Speech or language disability
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Assistive Technology
- First Words
- Augmentative or alternative communication (AAC)