Disability Categories Flashcards
(33 cards)
What are the IDEA eligibility categories?
Autism Deaf-blindness Developmental Delay Emotional Disturbance Hearing Impairment Intellectual Disability Multiple Disabilities Orthopedic Impairment Other Health Impairment Speech Language Impairment Traumatic Brain Injury Specific Learning Disability Visual Impairment
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Definition
Prevalence
ADHD inattentive, ADHD Hyperactive-impulse, ADHD Combined (*Issues with Age, Exclusive inattentive, Child/Adult)
Prevalence - 5-10%. Boys > Girls 4-1
ADHD
Assessment
Professionals usually use four methods to assessment: Medical Exam Clinical Interview Teacher and Parent Rating Scales Behavioral Observation
ADHD
Characteristics
Behavioral Inhibition, Executive Functioning (self regulation), Time awareness and management, Persistent goal-directed behavior
__6 symptoms or more for at least 6 mn
ADHD
General Treatments
Medications - Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderall
Behavioral Management - Functional Behavioral Assessment, Structure, Self-management system (with rewards)
Learning Disabilities
Definition
Prevalence
Disorder in basic psychological processes involved in understanding/using language, spoken or written, manifesting in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do math.
*Must have normal seeing, hearing, average IQ (85-115) Educational trouble not from inadequate experience or culture
Prevalence - 5.2% Boys > Girls 4-1
LD
Assessment
Curriculum-based measurement
Informal measures
Response to Intervention (RTI)
LD
Characteristics
Academic Deficits (80% are reading/language), Attention deficits and hyperactivity, Metacognition definitions, Language, Memory, Perceptual, Cognition Deficits
Social-emotional problems
Motor Skills & Coordination Problems
LD
General Treatments
Wait and Fail
Direct Instruction - Explicit and Systematic
Peer Tutoring
Cognitive training (thought processes, strategies for learning, teaching self-initiative)
Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Definition
Prevalence
Chronic, extreme behavior that is unacceptable in social or cultural norms and has adverse educational effects.
One of Five Problems:Learning not from int, senses, or health; relationships; inappropraite behaviors/feelings; depression; physical systems/phobias associated with personal or school problems. (Includes Schizophrenia)
Prevalence - 6-10% (1% served) Boys>Girls 5-1
EBD
Assessment
Formal Screen, Informal measures
Standardized Scales or Observations
EBD
Characteristics
Externalizing Behaviors - Physical aggression, relational aggression (ODD, Conduct Disorder)
Internalizing Behaviors - Withdrawn, lonely, anxious (anorexia, depression)
EBD
General Treatments
Functional Behavior Analysis - Problem solving process, identify behavior, causes, and interventions
Behavioral Intervention Plan (>10days)
Intellectual Disabilities
Definition
Prevalence
Significant limitations both in intellectual functioning an in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills. This disability originates before age 18
IQ Girls
ID
Assessment
IQ tests (RTI?) Parent, Teacher, Professional rating scales
ID
Characteristics
IQ < 70 and Adaptive discrepancy
Down Syndrome, Fragile X, FAS
ID
General Treatments
Levels of Support
Functional and Academic Skills
Transition (self-determination)
Speech and Language Impairments
Definition
Prevalence
Language or Speech (The system or the neuromuscular activity)
Prevalence - 6% speech
Prevalence - 1% language
S/L Impairments
Assessment
Speech Pathologists
Curriculum Based Language Assessment
S/L Impairments
Characteristics
Primary/Second Phonological - understanding sound systems Articulation - producing correct sounds Voice - pitch, loudness, quality Fluency - maintaining flow Motor-Speech - neuromotor damage
S/L Impairments
General Treatments
Progress monitoring -Teach, test, Reteach
What about, how, functional speech
Early Intervention
Autism
Definition
Prevalence
Clinically significant deficits in comm. and interactions and by restricted repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities.
<1%
Autism
Assessment
Criteria of comm. skills, social interactions, and repetitive/stereotyped patterns of behavior
Scales/Interviews for Clinicians
Autism
Characteristics
Issues with communication (desire, ability) Cognitive deficits similar to ID Executive Functions (self-regulation) Repetitive behavior Abnormal sensory
