13 Categories of IDEA by https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q Include the definition of each category, characteristics, prevalence, and 3 teaching strategies for each. en-us 2023-10-10 21:26:18 UTC 2023-10-13 03:46:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Visual Impairments jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740680991 Definition: Partially or completely blind/ having eyesight problems. Does not qualify if eyewear can correct the vision problem.
Characteristics:
  • Glaucoma
  • Retinopathy of prematurity
  • Cataracts
  • Retinal detachment
  • Macular degeneration
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Cortical visual impairment
Infection and trauma.
Examples: 
  • Amblyopia- "lazy eye"
  • Strabismus- eyes looking in different directions
Prevalence: low-  12.2 per 1,000
3 Teaching Strategies: 
  • Using larger texted books
  • Explaining visuals with great detail
  • Use bright-colored objects for contrast
]]> 2023-10-10 21:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740680991 Specific learning disability (SLD) jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740681493 Definition: A disorder with one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding spoken or written
Characteristics:
  • Academic problems
  • Disorders of attention
  • Poor motor abilities
  • Psychological process deficits and information
Examples:
  • Dyslexia
  • Dyscalculia
  • Dysgraphia
Prevalence: high -47.4% of all children receiving special education services
  • 3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Dividing large groups of information into smaller chunks
  • Use written cues such as highlighting target words
  • Use audiobooks or text-to-speech software
]]> 2023-10-10 21:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740681493 Other Health Impairments jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740684745 Definition: Conditions that limit a child’s strength, energy, vitality, or alertness due to chronic health problems.
Characteristics:
  • Fatigue
  • Mobility issues
  • Issues involving attention
  • Coordination difficulties
  • Muscle weakness
  • Frequent absences or lateness to school
  • Stamina
  • Inability to concentrate for long periods of time
Examples: 
  • Attention deficit disorder
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  •  Diabetes
  • Epilepsy
  • Cardiac conditions
  • Leukemia
  • Sickle cell anemia
Prevalence: Low- 7.6%
3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Allow extra time for these students to shift from one activity or environment to the next
  • Clearly define your goal
  • Keep these schedules as consistent as possible
]]> 2023-10-10 21:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740684745 Autism Spectrum Disorder jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740684943 Definition: ASD is a developmental disability that affects a child’s social skills, communication skills, and behavior.
Characteristics:
  • Seeking attention/avoiding attention
  • Not making any eye contact
  • Lack pragmatic language
  • Difficulty with personal hygiene
  • Social disconnect
  • Examples:
  • Asperger's syndrome
  • Pervasive developmental disorder
  • Childhood disintegrative disorder
Prevalence: Both high and low incidence- 10 per 10,000
3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Using assistive technology with written or verbal labels
  • Use instructional goals in the daily routines of the student
  • Design classroom and instructional materials to contain visual supports and cues
]]> 2023-10-10 21:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740684943 Emotional Disturbance jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740685214 Definition: Long-term conditions that have a serious negative impact on a child's educational performance and experience.
Characteristics:
  • Responding to a situation with inappropriate behavior or emotion- example) long term unhappiness
  • Difficulty time maintaining personal relationships with others
  • Mental illness
Examples:
  • anxiety disorder
  • schizophrenia
  • bipolar disorder
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • depression
Prevalence: high- 7.7%
3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Mental health services- example) Guidance Counselor
  • Allowing students to choose between classroom tasks
  • Word processing software to edit and revise work

]]> 2023-10-10 21:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740685214 Speech/ Language Impairment jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740685446 Definition: A communication disorder that adversely affects a child's ability to talk, understand, read, and write.
Characteristics:
  • Articulation disorders
  • Fluency disorders
  • Voice disorders
Examples: 
  • Apraxia
  • Stuttering and Cluttering
  • Dysarthria
  • Lisping
  • Muteness
  • Spasmodic Dysphonia
  • Aphasia
Speech delay
Prevalence: high- 20%
3 Teaching Strategies: 
  • Providing scribes
  • Allowing more time for a student to complete activities, assignments, and tests
  • Modifying activities- written activities instead of oral
]]> 2023-10-10 21:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740685446 Deafness jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740685998
Definition: Inability to hear most or all sounds, even with a hearing aid.
Characteristics:
  • Having a degree of language delay
  • Difficulty following verbal directions
  • Difficulty with oral expression
Examples: 
  • Deafness
Prevalence: Low- 20.8%
3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Captioned or interpreted videos
  • Use of sign language
  • Written handouts and visual aids
]]> 2023-10-10 21:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740685998 Hearing Impairment jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686175
Definition: An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but that is not included under the definition of deafness.
Characteristics:
  • not participating in cooperative play or learning activities
  • not startled by loud noise
  •  asking people to repeat themselves
  • trouble following a conversation
  •  saying "huh" a lot
Examples: 
  • Conductive hearing loss- something keeps sound from passing through your outer ear or your middle ear
  • Sensorineural hearing loss- when something damages your inner ear over time
  • Mixed hearing loss- a mix of conductive and sensorineural
Prevalence: Low- 1.2% 
  • 3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Use a sound-amplifying device (microphone)
  • Allow preferential seating with a direct view of your face and mouth
  • Use visuals and hands-on activities
  • Don't speak while facing away from students
]]> 2023-10-10 21:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686175 Deaf Blindness jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686325
Definition: Both severe hearing and vision loss. Communication and other needs are so unique that programs for just the deaf or blind can’t meet them.
Characteristics:
  • Multiple Congenital Anomalies- example) fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Head injury/ trauma
Examples:
Deaf and Blind
Prevalence: Low-  0.03%
3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Fingerspelling
  • Touch cues
  • Braille translation software: converts print into Braille and Braille into print
  • Optical character reader: converts printed text into files that can be translated into audible speech 
]]> 2023-10-10 21:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686325 Orthopedic Impairment jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686544
Definition: Lack of function or ability in the body including impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, disease, and other causes.
Characteristics:
  • Spastic (very tight muscles occurring in one or more muscle groups that result in stiff, uncoordinated movements)
  • Athetoid (movements are contorted, abnormal, and purposeless)
  • Ataxic (poor balance and equilibrium in addition to uncoordinated voluntary movement)
  • Mixed 
Examples: 
  • Cerebral palsy 
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Bone tuberculosis
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Amputations
Fractures or burns that cause contractures
Prevalence: Low- 1.1%
3 Teaching Strategies: 
  • Keep items within reach
  • For writing difficulties try using tape recorders instead
  • Use table-type desks
]]> 2023-10-10 21:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686544 Intellectual Disability jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686722
Definition: below-average intellectual ability. They may also have poor communication, self-care, and social skills.
Characteristics:  
  • Limitations in intellectual functioning - memory recall, task and skill generalization
  • Limitations in adaptive behavior- difficulties with conceptual skills, social skills, and practical skills.
    Examples: 
  • Autism
  • Asperger Syndrome
  • Down syndrome 
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Fragile X syndrome 
  • Heller’s Syndrome
Prevalence: Both high and low incidence-9.6%
3 Teaching Strategies: 
  • Use clear simplified (non-belittling) language
  • Ask their thoughts and allow them to answer
  • Speak clearly not loudly

]]> 2023-10-10 21:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686722 Traumatic Brain Injury jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686930
Definition: a brain injury caused by an accident or some kind of physical force.
Characteristics:
Impairments in...
  • cognition
  • language
  • memory
  • attention
  • reasoning
  • judgment
  • speech
Examples:
Problems with...
  • Behavioral/Emotional Symptoms
  • Social Skills Development
  • Cognitive Symptoms
  • Medical/Neurological Symptoms
Prevalence: Low- 5% to 8%
3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Provide repetition and consistency
  • Demonstrate new tasks, state instructions, and provide examples to illustrate ideas and concepts
  • Avoid figurative language
]]> 2023-10-10 21:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740686930 Multiple Disabilities jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740687193
Definition: Having more than one condition covered by IDEA.
Characteristics:
Defifits in...
  • Intellectual functioning
  • Adaptive skills
  • Motor skills
  • Sensory functioning
  • Communication skills
Examples:
  • Intellectual disabilities 
  • Orthopedic impairment
Prevalence: low- 2.2%
3 Teaching Strategies:
  • Set timelines for each educational objective
  • Virtual Assistant
  • Peer tutoring that is reciprocal
]]> 2023-10-10 21:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2740687193 Citations jlbeach510_ https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2742675919 Banaszak, B. (2022). Emotional disturbance | definition, prevalence & symptoms - study.com. What is Emotional Disturbance? https://study.com/academy/lesson/emotional-disturbance-definition-symptoms.html

Heimduo. (2020, September 25). What are the examples of intellectual disability? https://heimduo.org/what-are-the-examples-of-intellectual-disability/

Lee, A. M. I. (2023, October 5). Idea disability categories. Understood. https://www.understood.org/en/articles/conditions-covered-under-idea

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Ideal, P. (2013). Disability categories. Project IDEAL. https://www.projectidealonline.org/v/disability-categories/ ]]> 2023-10-12 00:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jlbeach510_/7ks4l7jhhixpbo1q/wish/2742675919