• lack of problem solving skills

• delayed or slow learning

• difficulty understanding social expectations

• struggle taking care or themselves

Instructional Strategies:

• teach adaptive skills

• create a calm and structured learning environment

• use supplementary aids/services

• use visual instructions

• review concepts

• create a consistent routine

• inconsistent eye contact

• difficulty holding and creating conversations

• talking at length about favorite subject

• unusual tone of voice

• trouble seeing others point of view

• difficulties adjusting to change

• unusual behaviors

Instructional Strategies:

• stay calm and positive

• provide quiet corners

• situational seating

• visual aids

• establish routines

• incorporate sensory tools

• provide noise canceling headphones

• cannot hear well enough to use hearing as a key learning channel

• can't process linguistic information

• hard of hearing

• some residual hearing

Instructional Strategies:

• provide hearing devices

• make sure they can read lips

• write down notes

• seat close to teacher

• most partially sighted (some useful vision)

• little to no useful vision

• same range of intellectual ability as other students

Instructional Strategies:

• large print

• yellow paper

• draw bigger

• darker lines

• double space to write on

• puffy paint

• wicky sticks

• limbs are affected

• full range of intellectual functioning

Instructional Strategies:

• open space to get around

• easy access to supplies

• support doing work

• often have intellectual disabilities

• often have physical or sensory impairment

• challenge with communication

• lack of adaptive behaviors

Instructional Strategies:

• support while communicating

• teach life skills

• modify curriculum

• limited strength

• fatigue

• mobility issues

• coordination difficulties

• muscle weakness

• inability to concentrate

Instructional Strategies:

• extended time

• simplify tasks

• assign seating close to teacher

• post schedules

• create structure and consistency

• assisting technology

• daydreaming

• forgetting/losing personal items

• overly active

• talking out of turn

• make silly or risky mistakes

• acting on impulses

• having difficulty interacting with others

Instructional Strategies:

• behavior interventions

• parent education

• academic interventions

• environmental supports

• difficulty with pencil pressure

• inconsistent handwriting size

• directional errors

• struggle combing processes

• difficulty with two handed tasks

• difficulty with sequential steps

• problems with coordination

Instruction Strategies:

• letter identification

• directional modeling

• imitation

• discussion

• graph paper

• copy-cover-compare

• say-trace-write

• difficulty recalling numbers

• delayed learning to count

• lose track in counting

• struggles with math homework

• difficulty reading clocks

Instructional Strategies:

• visual examples

• uncluttered worksheets

• review often

• color code concepts

• reduce the number of problems assigned

• work in short time intervals

• hyperactive

• aggressive tendencies

• emotional deregulations

• socially withdrawn

• unhappiness or depression

• physical fears

Instructional Strategies:

• provide choice making opportunities

• review content

• personalized instruction

• work intervals

• reward positive behavior

• memory loss

• difficulty concentrating

• fatigue

• slurred speech

• mood swings

• change in sleep patterns

• cannot problem solve

• difficulty completing taks

Instructional Strategies:

• dim lighting

• quiet space with little activity

• create a routine

• create high and reasonable expectations

• use patience

• modify activities

• independent work

• scribing

• tracing over letters/numbers

• difficulty pronouncing words correctly

• slurring

• hoarse/nasally voice

• no inflection

• volume too high or low

• stuttering

• slow speech

• uneven/jerky rate in speech

• unable to understand verbal information

• trouble following verbal directions

• difficulty understanding figurative/complex language

Instructional Strategies:

• model correct language

• minimize peer pressure

• encourage listening

• teach listening skills

• expand student language

• provide meaningful contexts for practicing speech/language

• typically not totally deaf and blind

• often have other intellectual disabilities

• some can be gifted

Instructional Strategies:

• support for communicating

• support with moving around

• extraordinary knowledge

• curiosity

• keen memory

• unusual ability to concentrate

• advanced comprehension

• skilled problem solving

• advanced abilities

Instructional Strategies:

• curriculum compacting

• acceleration

• differentiation

• specialized interventions