Promising Practices

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Promising Practices

• Part II

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DD License

• Developmental Disabilities (DD)
• Teacher licensure
• K-12
• Broad range (mild through severe)
• Developmental Cognitive Disability (DCD)
• Pupil eligibility category

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Developmental Cognitive Disability

• .a condition resulting in significantly below
  average intellectual functioning and concurrent
  deficits in adaptive behavior that adversely
  affects educational performance and requires
  special education and related services. DCD does
  not include conditions primarily due to a sensory
  or physical impairment, traumatic brain injury,
  autism spectrum disorders, severe multiple
  impairments, cultural influences, or inconsistent
  educational programming.

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Adaptive Behavior

• The pupil demonstrates below average adaptive
  behavior in school and home, and if appropriate,
  community environments
• Composite score at or below the 15th percentile
  on a nationally normed technically adequate
  measure of adaptive behavior
• Documentation of needs and level of support in 4
  or 7 adaptive behavior domains
• Systematic observation parent input to document
  need and level of support

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Adaptive Behavior Areas

• Daily living and independent living
• Social and interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Academic skills
• Recreation and leisure skills
• Community participation skills
• Work and work-related skills
• DOCUMENTATION OF NEEDS LEVEL OF SUPPORT IN FOUR
  OF SEVEN
• COMPOSITE SCORE OF AT OR BELOW THE 15TH PERCENTILE

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Documentation of Needs Level of Support

• In 4 of 7 adaptive behavior domains
• Type and amount of special assistance
• Modifications, adaptations, LRE
• Documented across environments
• Includes transition areas
• Review adaptive behavior domains on page 34

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Systematic Observation Parent Input

• Systematic observation is intended to support and
  confirm information obtained from formal
  assessment
• Required to identify needs and level of support
• Levels (intermittent-pervasive) embedded
  throughout evaluation report

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Intellectual Functioning

• The pupil demonstrates significantly below
  average general intellectual functioning that is
  measured by an individually administered,
  nationally normed test of intellectual ability
• Tools
• Wechsler Scale of Intelligence
• WISC III, WPPSI-R, WAIS-III
• Stanford-Binet
• Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI-2)

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Significant Subaverage Intellectual Functioning

• Mild-moderate range
• Two standard deviations below the mean, plus or
  minus one standard error of measurement
• Severe-profound range
• Three standard deviations below the mean, plus or
  minus one standard error of measurement