Do you know these celebrities

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Do you know these celebrities?
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How well do you really know them?

• Tom Cruise
• Successful actor who starred in such films as Top
  Gun, Rain Man, Minority Report in spite of
  having dyslexia.
• Robin Williams
• Successful actor and comedian who has starred in
  such films as Mrs. Doubtfire Hook, who with all
  his success, has a learning disability and
  Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
• Sylvester Stallone
• Star of the Rocky and Rambo movies who shares the
  same type of disabilities as Robin Williams (LD
  ADD).
• http//www.masspac.org/awareness/celebrities.htm

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What about these women celebrities
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Women Celebrities

• Audrey Hepburn, star of such classics as The
  African Queen and Breakfast at Tiffanys, had
  depression.
• Erin Brockovich, woman who inspired a movie for
  her work on the environment in the southern US,
  has dyslexia.

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Whats the point?

• Having a disability WILL NOT prevent you from
  obtaining success! YOU have to know your
  disability and make the appropriate
  accommodations that will generate your success.
• Youre not alone. There are thousands and
  millions of students with the same types of
  disabilities.

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Specific Learning Disability (SLD)

• Federal Definition Specific Learning Disability
  (SLD) means a disorder in one or more of the
  basic psychological processes involved in
  understanding or in using language, spoken or
  written, which may manifest itself in an
  imperfect ability to listen, speak, read, write,
  spell, or do mathematical calculations (Hallahan
  Kauffman, 2003).

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Specific Learning Disability (SLD) cont.

• Dyslexia, for example, is considered one SLD.
• Over half (50.8) of the students with
  disabilities in the US have a SLD.
• The number of students with a SLD is close to 3
  MILLION!

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Speech Language Disabilities

• Speech disorders include disorders of voice,
  articulation, fluency.
• Language disorders affect the students ability
  to use language (phonology, morphology, syntax,
  semantics, pragmatics).
• Over a million students have a speech or language
  disability.

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Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD)

• Difficult to define Behavior that is
  unacceptable because of social or cultural
  experiences that goes to an extreme and that is
  chronic.
• Includes Conduct Disorders, Affective Disorders,
  and Anxiety Disorders.
• Close to half a million students have an EBD, but
  the numbers are on the rise.

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Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD) (cont)

• Conduct Disorders
• Behaviorally based
• Typically, the person has problems with peers
  authority figures.
• Manifests behavior with aggression
• Behavioral management program psychotherapy
• http//www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/conduc
  t.htm

• Affective Disorders
• Something in the body is affected.
• Example Bipolar Disorder.
• Cause Genetics
• M.D. will place bipolar patients on medication to
  help stabilize chemicals in the body (brain)
• http//www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfmbp6

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Autism

• A pervasive developmental disability
  characterized by extreme withdrawal, cognitive
  deficits, language disorders, self-stimulation
  and the onset is before the age of 30 months.
• Sometimes regarded as PDD or Pervasive
  Developmental Disorder.
• Runs a spectrum
• Over 50,000 students are autistic but the numbers
  rise steadily every year.

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Other Disabilities

• Orthopedic Disabilities
• Visual Disabilities
• Audio or Hearing Disabilities
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Multiple Disabilities (MD)

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Activity Time!!!!!

• Take about 7 minutes to fill out the Student
  Disability Worksheet