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Intellectual Disabilities
Sarah Livingston
EDEX 796
Definition
Condition characterized by:
Significant sub-average intellectual functioning
Exists concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior
Students with ID
Eligibility
Characteristics
Accommodations & Modifications
Examples
IDEA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Created in 1975
Improved in 2004
To be eligible:
Child must have disability
Must need special education/related services.
If child has disability but no need for special education services:
May qualify for Section 504
Characteristics
Cognitive
Communication
Physical
Social-emotional
Cognitive
Attention
Memory
Generalization
Communication
Speech Nonverbal
Language Delayed development
Other ways to communicate
Physical
Fine/Gross motor
Cerebral Palsy
Blindness/Deaf
Epilepsy
Other
Social-emotional
Behavior issues
Child-like behaviors
Some are social; some are not
Mimicry/echolalia
Accommodations
This is how I teach
How material is presented
Where student is taught
How student communicates what learned
Modifications
What I teach my students
Simplifying lessons
Main facts
Functional skills
When I teach
It is important for me to:
Reduce language
Reduce/simplify my lesson
Give examples
Show finished product
Keep my students on a schedule/routine
Give preferred and non-preffered tasks
Visual cues
Timers
Peer buddies (like you )
My students can do the same things as you!
Enjoy art
Play ball
Play with friends at recess
Surf the web & the waves
So remember…
We can change the world
We have a “can do” attitude, do you?
“We, the one’s who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.” – Robert M. Hensel
FYI
List of those you may not know had a disability: Albert Einstein; Asperger’s Beethoven; Deaf Bill gates; Asperger’s Cher; dyslexia David Beckham; ID Reeve & Roosevelt; Physical Van Gogh; Epilepsy