Students with mild intellectual disabilities usually exhibit adaptive behavioral skills significantly below average. Adaptive behavior includes social‚ conceptual‚ and practical skills use by people on a daily basis. Students with mild intellectual disabilities also have an IQ lower than 98% of their school age peers (Rosenberg M.S.‚ Westling‚ D.L.and McLeskey J.‚ 2012) Characteristics: Easily distracted Deficits in memory and motivation Poor social skills Low achievement in all academic
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UNIT 34: UNDERSTAND PHYSICAL DISABILITY – LEARNING OUTCOME 2 2.1 Define the term “physical disability” Physical disability pertains to total or partial loss of a person’s bodily functions (e.g. walking‚ gross motor skills‚ bladder control etc) and total or partial loss of a part of the body (e.g. a person with an amputation). Simply stated‚ a physical disability is any type of physical condition that significantly impacts one or more major life activities. That is a pretty broad definition‚ but the
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Learning Team Reflection QNT/351 Learning Team Reflection Statistics refers to the use of numerical information in everyday life to calculate facts and figures in limitless circumstances. In addition‚ statistics refers to the scientific collecting‚ classifying‚ summarizing‚ organizing‚ analyzing‚ and interpreting numerical data. This week the class’s objectives were to apply the steps in testing a research hypothesis‚ to compare the means of two or more groups‚ and to calculate the correlation between
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the Lifelong Learning Sector ( PTLLS )(6302) REFLECTING LEARNING JOURNAL UNIT 001 The purpose of this essay is to reflect upon an aspect on my role and responsabilities as a teacher in lifelong learning ‚responsability for maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment (PTLLS 6302/L&D Academy /Barchester/page 4 }For the purpose of reflection the essay shall be written in the first person.I decided to use John’s( 1995) model of reflection . Description
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SPE 480 Self-Reflection and Learning Agenda Paper BACKGROUND: Describe your professional Identity: I am a dedicated person to the game of many sports and teaching. I have taught several different sports and also have been well trained in a classroom setting. Working with children of all ages‚ I have 8 years of coaching football‚ 4 years of basketball‚ 12 years of softball with private lessons as well and 3 years’ experience working with special needs students in a classroom. I have a bachelor’s
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Associate Program Material Aging and Disability Worksheet Part I Identify 2 or 3 issues faced by the aging population. 1. Health Issues 2. Income and Economic Welfare 3. Neglect and Abuse Answer the following questions in 100 to 200 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What is ageism? How does ageism influence the presence of diversity in society? Ageism is a form of discrimination and prejudice‚ particularly experienced by seniors. Most seniors
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Bottled Water Reflection Essay To ban or not to ban‚ that is the question. Everyone has heard about this everlasting‚ ongoing debate. Both sides have large amounts of evidence and contradict each other whenever mentioned. Nonetheless‚ my group and I believe that water bottles should be banned since they aren’t being disposed in the correct manner and increasing pollution levels all over the world. Through our research‚ we found that according to the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) seventeen
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The definition of Intellectual and developmental mental disabilities intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior‚ which covers many everyday social and practical skills. This disability originates before the age of 18. Intellectual functioning—also called intelligence—refers to general mental capacity‚ such as learning‚ reasoning‚ problem solving‚ and so on. One criterion to measure intellectual functioning
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feel reflect some of the contrasting models of disability which we have looked at in Units 1-4 of the course materials (E214‚ The Open University‚ 2010). The first resource comes from the National Autistic Society’s website and the second comes from the national newspaper The Guardian. The first resource (Appendix A) is an information page entitled ‘What is Asperger Syndrome’ and particularly focusses on the medical/deficit model of disability‚ a model which involves identifying symptoms‚ diagnosing
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NCAC Curriculum Access for Students with Low-Incidence Disabilities: The Promise of Universal Design for Learning This report was written with support from the National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC)‚ a cooperative agreement between CAST and the U.S. Department of Education‚ Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)‚ Cooperative Agreement No. H324H990004. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the U.S. Department of Education
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