Working with Students who have Disabilities

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Working with Students who have Disabilities

• Janelle Martin,
• FCOE School Psychologist

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Celebrity Quiz

• Answers to the Celebrity Quiz
• 1. d, 2. g, 3. b, 4. e, 5. f, 6. a, 7. h, 8. c.
• The source of this quiz is unknown. It was
  reproduced from Take A Walk In My Shoes - A Guide
  Book for Youth on Diversity Awareness Activites
  by Yuri Morita, June 1996.

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What can children with disabilities really do?

• Become President of the United States
• Invent the light bulb
• Write Walden
• Develop the idea that the earth revolves around
  the sun
• Design the rockets that took man to the moon
• Develop the theory of relativity
• Paint the Mona Lisa
• Write the most popular symphonies in history
• Liberate France from the Nazis
• Invent the telephone
• Write the Declaration of Independence

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What can children with disabilities really do?

• Develop the laws that govern all motion in the
  universe
• Invent the airplane
• Star in Top Gun
• Become Americas top flying ace during the First
  World War
• Led the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship six
  times (being named MVP each time)
• Write A Christmas Carol
• Create Mickey Mouse
• Direct The Godfather Trilogy
• Free over 300 slaves through the Underground
  Railroad
• Achieve the highest speed ever attained by any
  Olympic sprinter
• Create the worlds largest online brokerage house
  

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Definition of Disability

• A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a
  physical or mental impairment that interferes
  with or prevents normal achievement in a
  particular area.

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How do schools provide for students with
disabilities?

• 504 Plan
• IEP (Individualized Education Plan)

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504 Plan

• It is designed to create modifications and
  accommodations for students with special needs
  who are attending their schools general
  education program.

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IEP

• The IEP is a legally binding contract of services
  provided by a school district for children
  classified with a disability who receive special
  education services.

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Criteria for 504 plan

• a physical or mental impairment which
  substantially limits one or more major life
  activities.
• have a record of such a physical or mental
  impairment.
• be perceived as having such a physical or mental
  impairment.

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Criteria for IEP

• AutismDeaf-BlindnessDeafnessHearing
  ImpairmentMental RetardationMultiple
  DisabilitiesOrthopedic ImpairmentOther Health
  ImpairmentSerious Emotional DisturbanceSpecific
  Learning DisabilitySpeech or Language
  ImpairmentTraumatic Brain InjuryVisual
  impairment, including Blindness

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Accommodations vs Modifications

• Accommodation-
• it does not fundamentally alter or lower the
  standard or expectation of the course/test
• Modification-
• which does fundamentally alter or lower the
  standard or expectation of the course, standard
  or test

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MYTHS

• Myth 1- A "learning disability" is just a polite
  way to refer to lower overall intelligence and
  abilities.
• Myth 2- Given the proper instruction, students
  can grow out of their learning disabilities.
• Myth 3- Students with learning disabilities have
  "attitude problems."

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MYTHS

• Myth 4- Accommodating the needs of a student with
  learning disabilities means watering down course
  requirements.
• Myth 5- Students use learning disabilities as an
  excuse to get out of work.
• Myth 6- Accommodations for disabilities give
  students an unfair advantage.

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What can a mentors do to help children with
disabilities succeed?

• There is no easy answer to that question. Like
  all children, they need a supportive environment
  to nurture their gifts. They need rules to help
  them understand that this world has limits.
  Nevertheless, most importantly, they need good
  mentors that understand them and are willing to
  help them.

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