Intellectual Disabilities - reading is linked HERE as well as in BB in 9/14 folder
by nancy morris
1. Images of disability awareness and advocacy
2. Home - Madeline Stuart Model Madeline Stuart is an 18 year old aspiring model from Brisbane, Australia with Down Syndrome. Maddy really wants to change the way people discriminate against disability through gaining attention through social media. She wants people to know that Down Syndrome is a blessing. Help Maddy get her message across by sharing her photos and her story and make the world a better place.
3. Diagnosis
3.1. Specific medical diagnosis (Down syndrome, Fragile X) or other chromosomal diagnosis
3.2. Can occur with autism or other disability
3.3. Screenings can occur as early as 12 weeks to determine an increased likelihood of a possible occurrence of a chromosomal or genetic disability, not a diagnosis
3.4. Identified after transition into K-12 school age and identified through RTI
4. Broad Across the Board Academic Needs
4.1. Delays across all academic areas
4.2. Functional Academic Focus
4.3. Time
4.4. Money
4.5. Reading
4.6. Writing
5. Unique Learning Characteristics
5.1. Memory – very short term
5.2. Need for explicit teaching of adaptive behaviors – chaining is a good strategy
5.3. Support to generalize and maintain learned skills – ESY candidate
5.4. Motivation
5.5. Learned helplessness
5.6. Difficulty with sustained attention
5.7. Attention to irrelevant cues
5.8. Lack of attention to social cues and pragmatic language
6. Effective Teaching Techniques - We will practice and view examples in class
6.1. Functional Academics
6.2. Chaining
6.3. Stimulus Cuing
6.4. Direct instruction
6.5. Use of Visuals or Photos (depending on cognitive/language level)
6.6. Social Stories
6.7. Video Modeling
7. Disability in mainstream society
8. Early Intervention – lack of meeting milestones and receives services that continue into K-12
9. Resources for in Class Practice
9.1. Social Stories
9.2. Book Creator
9.3. Video Modeling
9.4. Video modeling
9.5. Book Creator for Social Stories
10. Academic skill applied to a real world event
