DETERMINING WHETHER A DISABILITY EXISTS

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DETERMINING WHETHER A DISABILITY EXISTS

• Chapter Fifteen

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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
UNDERSTAND

• Higher and lower incidence disabilities
• The process involved in diagnosing a suspected
  disability from the assessment materials gathered
• The definitions, the incidence, the
  characteristics, an example assessment battery
  of, and the method to diagnose a learning
  disability, a developmental disability/mental
  retardation, or emotional disturbance

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DIAGNOSING A DISABILITY
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Higher Incidence Disabilities

• Learning disabilities
• Emotional disabilities
• Mental retardation- higher level functioning
  other than Down Syndrome
• Speech and language disabilities
• Other health impairment- AD/HD- prediagnosis

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Lower Incidence Disabilities

• Autism
• Orthopedically impaired
• Visual impairments
• Hearing impairments
• Other health impaired
• Traumatic brain injury
• Deaf-Blind
• Deafness
• Mental retardation- lower levels of functioning

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Classification categories most likely diagnosed
by a combination of professionals and agencies
during school

• Visual impairments
• Hearing impairments
• Other health impaired- ADD or ADHD

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Diagnosing a Learning Disability
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Mild/Mental Retardation -Developmental Disability

• General intellectual functioning
• Adaptive behavior

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Diagnosing Emotional Disabilities
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
UNDERSTAND

• Higher and lower incidence disabilities
• The process involved in diagnosing a suspected
  disability from the assessment materials gathered
• The definitions, the incidence, the
  characteristics, an example assessment battery
  of, and the method to diagnose a learning
  disability, a developmental disability/mental
  retardation, or emotional disturbance

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