1. SPECIAL EDUCATION 101 FEBRUARY 5, 2014 SARAH TRUSTY AND AMANDA DAVIDSON

2. WHAT IS IT LIKE…. TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH ATTENTION? PROBLEMS WITH ATTENTION

3. LET’S SEE…. Visual Activity Auditory Activity

4. TAKE A LOOK……

5. OTHER HEALTH IMPAIRMENT  Having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened sense of sensitivity to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment  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, or sickle cell anemia  Adversely affects a child’s educational performance

6. WHAT IS IT LIKE…… To have a learning disability? For reading to be so hard?? For math to make no sense? ?

7. READING Decoding ActivityMemory Activity

8. TAKE A LOOK…..

9.  Areas of Learning Disabilities  Basic Reading Skills  Reading Fluency Skills  Reading Comprehension  Mathematical Calculation  Mathematical Problem Solving  Written Expression  Oral Expression  Listening Comprehension  Illinois requires the use of a process based on scientific, research-based interventions as part of the evaluation procedures for SLD.  The 8 areas are the only academic areas inclusive of SLD. It is required that student data focus on achievement, not processing data. SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY

10.  Exclusionary Criteria:  Student’s difficulties cannot be the result of other factors  Visual, hearing, or motor disability  Emotional disability  Cultural factors  Environmental or Economic factors  Limited English Proficiency

11. MATH Arithmetic ActivitySpatial Activity

12. SEQUENCE ACTIVITY

13. LET’S SEE…..

14. AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER Imagine this……

15. AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER  Developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, evident before age three, that adversely affects the child’s educational performance.  Typical characteristics: repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.  The term does not apply if a child’s educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has an emotional disturbance.

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