Severe and Multiple Disabilities Case Study Sarina never had the opportunity to go preschool an didn’t begin her formal education in the public schools until the age of 6. She is now 15 years old and goes to Eastmont Junior High. Sarina does not verbally speak‚ walk‚ hear‚ or see. Professionals have used several labels to describe her‚ including severely disabled‚ severely multiple handicapped‚ deaf-blind and profoundly mentally retarded. Sarina has a support team of administrators‚ teachers
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chapter twelve‚ which discusses severe/multiple disabilities‚ deaf-blindness‚ and traumatic brain injury. Just like all the other chapters‚ this one starts with definitions that will need to be understood when progressing through the chapter. Some of the terms listed in the chapter do not have a widely accepted definition such as severe disabilities. The book states that most of these classifications tend to be based on IQ scores. For example‚ profound disabilities are classified with IQ scores of
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Special Needs Students: I.e. Autism and other Severe Disabilities Timothy E. Jackson SPE -226 Educating the Exceptional Learner February 23‚ 2011 Professor Rebekah McCarthy This essay is entitled Educating Special Needs Students‚ the author will discuss and several important issues‚ which will be the following; the defining of Mental Retardation a term the author despises‚ Autism‚ Severe Disabilities and Multiple Disabilities‚ also their causes‚ and the impact of these disabilities have on the
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In a presentation about parents and families of students with disabilities‚ the Riley family came up and shared their experiences about living with Catherine‚ a woman who has Down syndrome. The three presenters who shared were Molly‚ Nola‚ and Catherine. Molly‚ who is Catherine’s older sister‚ talked about what it was like growing up together with Catherine and how it affected her life. Nola‚ Catherine’s mother‚ told what it was like bringing and raising a child with Down syndrome in this world.
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Teaching is not an exact science‚ where one teaching strategy fits all. Having a lesson planned that is carefully prepared may encourage some students to improve their grades‚ craft an incredible story‚ and attend college. That same lesson may leave other students discouraged and confused. Effective teaching requires creativity and flexibility. Teaching techniques and strategies must be adjusted and monitored frequently by both general educators and special educators. Only a portion of the lesson
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• SEVERE SEPSIS SURVIVAL: A CASE STUDY‚ FROM HOPELESSNESS TO HOPEFULNESS. Halima K‚1 Iliyasu G‚2 Farouq MD‚2 1Intensive Care Unit‚ Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital 2Infectious Disease Unit‚ Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital INTRODUCTION Sepsis is a serious medical condition characterized by a whole body inflammatory state (called a systemic inflammatory response or SIRS) and the presence of a known or suspected infection. The body may develop this inflammatory response
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Multiple Intelligences: Equal Access to the Curriculum for Deaf Students All children deserve to have equal access to the curriculum. However‚ in a time when standardized tests have become the focal point of our schools and classrooms‚ students with diverse learning styles and disabilities are falling behind educationally. We cannot allow children to slip through the cracks because we‚ as educators‚ are not providing them with the tools they need to achieve. Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
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Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities 1 Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities 2 Task 1 Part A: Summarize the six key components of the original 1975 IDEA In 1975‚ President Gerald Ford signed into law Public Law 94-142‚ Education for Handicap Act. This federal law was created to assure that all children with disabilities have free and appropriate education available to them. The six key components of the original 1975 Education
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Intellectual Disability Student Population Within‚ at the least‚ the United States‚ we are most familiar with identifying individuals that lack cognitive skills as having “mental retardation‚” but the legal term that is now being used is “intellectual disability.” Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that protects the education of certain disabled children from age 3 up to the age of 21. Under IDEA‚ intellectual disabilities is one of the thirteen categories in which students ages
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labeling always benefits students with disabilities. When someone is labeled they are often seen for their disability before they are seen as just being a person. People tend to focus more on the disability of the person and the fact that they cannot perform a task instead of modifying the task so they can perform it to the best of their ability. Labeling a student under one of the thirteen categories may distinguish which disability the child has but‚ not all cases of that disability are the same. No
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