Term
| When would you use an AMD with a client? |
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Definition
| Adaptive mobility device- children, those with challenged motor skills, specific situations such as an elderly person getting around a nursing home. |
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Term
| What are some common visual disorders found with TBI? |
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Definition
Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)
Visual acuity and field loss (hemianopsia, quadranopsia, etc)
Binocular dysfunction
Spatial perceptual deficits
Total blindness |
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Term
| What community resources for communication are available to a learner with deafness? |
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Definition
TTY- Text telephone
TRS- Telecommunications Relay Service
TDD- Telecommunication Device for the Deaf
VRS- service hooked up to TV to allow interpreter to relay information.
Using signs when shopping or to ask for help in street crossing |
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Term
| What are the basic types of ambulatory aids used? |
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Definition
| Wheelchairs, scooters, crutches, support cane, walkers |
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Term
| Describe common behaviors of autism |
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Definition
| Lack of impulse control, heightened frustration level, difficulty with translation, unable to be redirected to another activity when a meltdown occurs. |
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Term
| Identify strategies for cognitive disabilities or TBI |
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Definition
Time consideration- scheduling appts, duration of lessons, length of instructional time.
Task analysis- division of task into smaller, attainable segments that can eventually be combined into an end goal.
Forward chaining- every skill builds on the previous one.
Backward chaining
Sequenced instruction- order in which a set of short term objectives are taught so as to achieve a long term goal.
Prompting- natural cues are found in nature, or instructional prompts may be necessary
Overlearning |
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Term
| Instructional strategies for hearing impaired. |
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Definition
Use sensory information and development
Guided travel, self protective skills
Communication cards or books
Technology such as FM systems or hearing aids
ABC cards
Work with interpreters or interveners |
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Term
| Instructional strategies for wheelchairs |
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Definition
Constant contact with longer cane and roller ball
Wider arc
Hold cane in non dominant hand |
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Term
| Instructional strategies for walkers |
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Definition
For rear walker, put PVC across front
Constant contact with pencil grip and roller ball tip |
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Term
| Instuctional strategies for Crutches or canes |
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Definition
ETA may help detect obstacles
Sweep cane, then take a step. |
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Term
| What other strategies are effective when providing O&M instruction to learners with multiple disabilities and VI? |
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Definition
| a) teach in natural routines b) task analysis to determine specific miniskills to complete an activity c) general strategies such as backward chaining d) be consistent when presenting information to VI and cognitive disabled |
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Term
| Why is it important for the O&M specialist to know the names and side effects of medications being taken by the learner? |
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Definition
| a) lesson can be adjusted accordingly b) sunscreen worn and hat even shade c) medical emergency |
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Term
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Definition
| education is impacted because the person is unable to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers or teachers and exhibit inappropriate types of behavior or feelings |
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Term
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Definition
| this is when one or more of the psychological processes involved in understanding or using language that manifest itself in an inability to listen, think, read, write, spell or do math or perception problems not related to the visual impairment |
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Term
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Definition
| this is a continuum which includes many childhood disgenerative disorders or development delay or Aspergers- though this is no longer separate |
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Term
| Describe instructional strategies for teaching behavior skills |
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Definition
| review behavioral expectations prior to lesson, develop behavior contracts, focus on praise, structured breaks, predictable lesson sequence, tangible schedule, students make choices on reinforcements and the reinforcement schedule |
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