Create a mind map with the 14 IDEA disability categories and the related interventions/accommodations and assistive technology that could be used in classrooms to support the learning of students with a disability.
1.1. Affecting verbal and non verbal communication
1.2. Generally evident before the age of 3
1.3. Unusual responses to sensory images
1.4. Resistance to environmental changes
1.5. Emotional disturbances
2. Multiple Disabilities
2.1. Simultaneous Impairments
2.2. mental-retardation and blindness
2.3. Addittional resources are needed other than a special education program
3. Other Health Impairment
3.1. (a) is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome; and
3.2. (b) adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
3.3. Authority
4. Emotional Disturbance
4.1. A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance:
4.2. Case Study a student who is constantly depressed, or suicidal within the classroom will need to speak with a licensed professional in regards to his or her problems. In my classroom when a teacher was experiencing an emotional disturbance I gave the child freedom to sit alone, take a walk or speak with the head of our Specal Education department. If the emotional disturbance is to severe the student may need law enforcement or doctors involved.
5. Deafness
5.1. A hearing impairment so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance
6. Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently [at the same time] with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
6.1. Intellectual Disability
7. Specific Learning Disability
7.1. A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations. The term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities; of mental retardation; of emotional disturbance; or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
7.2. Case Study one of my 12th grade students struggled with a specific learning diability that affected her ability in using language, spoken and written. Modificatiions were given on length of assignment, literature being read in class, and was able to complete homework later than the assigned deadline. Her parents were unconvinced that their daughter was improving.
8. Speech or Language Impairment
8.1. A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
9. Traumatic Brain Injury
9.1. An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.
10. Visual Impairment Including Blindness
10.1. Case study student who is visually impared can recieve special accomodations including being read test answers, recieving special accomodations to answers being read on the board
11. Developmental Delays
11.1. Children from birth to age three (under IDEA Part C) and children from ages three through nine (under IDEA Part B), the term developmental delay, as defined by each State, means a delay in one or more of the following areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication; social or emotional development; or adaptive [behavioral] development.
12. Deaf-Blindness
12.1. Both hearing and visual impairments
12.2. Severe communication problems
12.3. Outside resources needed
13. Orthopedic Impairment
13.1. Affects child's performance
13.2. impairments caused by a congenital anomaly
13.3. impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis)
13.4. impairments from other causes (e.g.,cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
