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| Change in the delivery of instruction. The "how" material will be taught. |
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Landmark federal law passed in 1975.
AKA: Education for All Handicapped Childre Act.
amended in 1990 to IDEA then again in 1997 without a name change. In 2004 it was re-authorized as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act. |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
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| Enacted in 1990, it ensures the right of individuals with disabilities to non-discriminatory treatment in other aspects of their lives, such as transportation, employment, public accomodations, tele-communications and state & local government. |
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Identification: Child find, extensive efforts to identify as early as possible.
Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
Due Process: students & parents have the rights to be notified and give consent before evaluation, label, placement, and the right to an impartial due process hearing to resolve disputes.
Least Restrictive Environment
Non-discriminatory Evaluation
Confidentiality
Personnel Development for Field Professionals |
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| Difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality |
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| Difficulty receiving, understanding, and formulating ideas and information. |
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Receptive language disorder
Expressive language disorder |
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difficulty receiving or understanding information
difficulty formulating ideas and information |
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Phonology
Phonology disorders |
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use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words
unable to discriminate differences in speech sounds or sound segments |
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Morphology
Morhpology disorders |
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system that governs the structure of words
difficulties with using the structure of words to get or give information |
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provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences
errors involving word disorder |
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Pragmatics
Pragmatics disorders |
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use of communication in contexts; the overall organizer for language
ex. when a student talks for a long time and does not allow anyone else to speak |
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| Social interaction theories |
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| emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions |
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Substitution articulation error
Omission articulation error
Addition articulation error
Distortion articulation error |
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when one substitues one sound for another
when one leaves out a phoneme
when one adds an additional phoneme to a word
modifications of a production of a phoneme in a word;lisp. |
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| motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
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| Articulation & apraxia assessment |
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| evaluate a student's abilities to produce speech sounds in single words, sentences, and conversation |
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measures amount and type of dysfluency |
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| Augmented and Alternative Communication Devices (AAC) devices |
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| augmentative and alternative communication system consisting of two components: a symbol set and a means for selecting the symbols |
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| UDL-Communication disorders |
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| Using audio & text formats; varying teaching medium |
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Percentage of students w/ a mild TBI
More males than Female |
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Hard of hearing threshold
Deaf threshhold |
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Hearing loss in the 20-70db range
Had hearing loss of 70-90db |
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| Lack of oxygen before birth; cause of deafness |
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| Criteria for gifted students |
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| No single national definition; unclear to categorize #s of gifted |
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Acceleration
Compact the curriculum |
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Moving students rapidly through standard sequence of curriculum by having the skip a course or grade
pretesting student then leaving out portions student already knows |
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| educational theory that learners assemble their knowledge through their experiences |
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| existential school of pscyh that promotes mans personal freedom, individuality |
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school of pysch that manipulates behavior by conditioning with stimulus and response
Pavlov-Watson-Skinner
3 of the greatest behaviorists |
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| outlawed school segregation, started the whole civil rights movement |
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| father of the American public school system |
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John Dewey Coined the term
American social movement expected to reform society |
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What are “low stakes tests?”
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What are “high stakes tests?”
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Concerning “high stakes tests,” what are the consequences for schools? |
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tests that have no significant consequences
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tests that have consequences for students and educators
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might determine their continued existence |
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Concerning “high stakes tests,” what are the consequences for students?
Concerning “high stakes tests,” what are the consequences for teachers? |
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might determine promotion between grades or graduation from high school
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might be used to measure their performance or to determine their salary increases |
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| Which method of teaching is mandated by NCLB? |
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| Activities of daily living (ADL): |
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| Routine activities that a person does every day such as standing, sitting, eating, bathing, and grooming can be done by the individual or care provider. |
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| These skills are typically needed to live and work in the community: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, leisure, health and safety, self-direction, functional academics, community use and work. |
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| Assistive or Adaptive Technology: |
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| equipment that promotes capability in handling a wider range of activities with greater independence than would otherwise be possible for students with disabilities. Examples would be large print displays on computer screens |
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| Community-Based Instruction (CBI) |
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| Community-Based Instruction (CBI) - a model for delivery of instruction in which IEP goals are met in a "natural", age-appropriate setting. For example, math, sequencing, travel, and social skills may all be developed in the setting of a trip to the grocery store. |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-): Used mainly in clinical settings, this guide provides a classification and description of mental disorders and symptoms, and is cited in many disability studies. |
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| Used mainly in clinical settings, this guide provides a classification and description of mental disorders and symptoms, and is cited in many disability studies. |
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| The broadest definition of disability can be found in Americans With Disabilities Act: a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment. |
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| An approach which delivers instructional content that focuses on the concepts and skills needed by all students with disabilities in the areas of personal-social, daily living, and occupation.or a curriculum focused on practical life skills and usually taught in community based settings with concrete materials that are a regular part of everyday life. |
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