- What are some common characteristics of students with high incidence disabilities?
They are often hard to distinguish from peers without disabilities(non schooling environment)
Combination of behavioral, social, and academic problems
They benefit from systematic, explicit, highly structured interventions
- Which disability category constitutes the largest group of individuals with high incidence disabilities?
learning disabilities
- A student who struggles with the correct pronunciation of sounds has difficulty with ___________________________.
speech articulation
- In what area do students with receptive language problems experience difficulty?
difficulty in understanding what their teahers and peers are saying. follow directions, may not be able to attain information
- What are the two key parts of language with which children may experience difficulty?
receptive and expressive
- True or False. To accommodate students with communication needs, teachers should supply words that are difficult to pronounce.
False
- What is a strategy that teachers can utilize to directly teach listening skills to students?
make oral material easier to understand and remember by simplifying vocabulary, sentence structure.
directions and predictions
- In general, why do students with learning disabilities achieve less academically than typical students?
trouble with processing, organizing, and applying academic information.
- True or False. Individuals with emotional disturbances have problems learning primarily because of external or internal behavioral adjustment problems.
true
- What are two major areas in which students with learning and/or behavioral disabilities experience difficulty in reading?
decoding and comprehension
- How can a teacher determine if a child is having a problem with decoding words?
mispronounce, substitute and ommitting words
- What is a term often used to describe serious difficulties with reading?
dyslexia
- For an LD student, how might a lack of alertness to visual detail affect their performance in Math?
misread math signs and facts
- What are academic survival skills?
attending school regularly, being organized, completing tasks in and out of school, being independent, taking an interest in school and displaying positive interpersonal skills with peers and adults
- True or False. Students with behavioral disorders frequently engage in aggressive or disruptive behaviors during class.
true
- Why do students with learning and behavioral disabilities sometimes experience social skills problems?
lack of knowledge because they do not learn naturally occurring models of social behavior
- What is learned helplessness?
characteristics of some students with disabilities in which they see little relationship between theri own efforts and school or social success, often resulting in a belief that they cannot perform challenging tasks
- What are three types of training that can address the social and emotional needs of students with learning and behavioral disabilities?
social skills training
self-control training
attribution retaining
- True or False. A strategy that will benefit students with significant conduct problems is to engage them in excessively challenging academic tasks.
false
- What type of training can specifically benefit student who demonstrate learned helplessness?
attribution retaining
- What are some key characteristics of ADHD?
inattentive, impulsivity, hyperactivity
- What are the three main categories of ADHD?
inattentive type
hyperactive-impulsive
combined type
- Please provide an example of an oral direction that is expressed in a manner that would be beneficial for a student with ADHD.
one direction or important key at a time
direct instruction
face to face
- True or False. Students with ADHD should always sit near the back of the room to avoid distracting other children.
false
