Disability and Ability

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Disability and Ability

• By
• Evelyn King, Jill Stephens, Carrie Werner

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Demographics of People With Disabilities
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An estimated 34- 43 million people living in the
U.S. are plagued with chronic disabilities
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In the 1999 - 2000 school year, the Department of
Education reported that 112,993 students with
multiple disabilities were being provided
services
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• The U.S. Department of Education has reported
  that 5 out of 1000 school children have at least
  mild hearing loss

• Children with speech problems make up the largest
  group receiving special services

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1976 - 1991 1991 - Present

• Learning disabled
• Speech or language impaired
• Mentally retarded
• Seriously emotionally disturbed
• Hard of hearing
• Deaf
• Orthopedic ally Impaired
• Other health impaired
• Visually handicapped
• multihandicapped

• Specific learning disability
• Speech or language impairment
• Mental retardation
• Serious mental disturbance
• Hearing impairments
• Hearing impairments
• Orthopedic impairments
• Other health impairments
• Visual impairments
• Multiple disabilities
• Autism
• Traumatic brain injury
• Developmental delay

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In Alachua County, of the 29,686 students, 7,543
are classified as using exceptional education
programs

• This ranges from students who are developmentally
  delayed - hospital/homebound - those who are
  profoundly mentally handicapped

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People with disabilities are the largest single
minority group in the U.S.
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Demographics of Students with Ability
The Statistics of students enrolled in gifted
talented students. The year 93-94 and
95-96 Florida 74,572 New York 135,000 California
290,000
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of Students in Gifted Programs

• Public schools 6.43 out of 41,621,660
• Private Schools 4.93 out of 4,970,548

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How Disability Affects the Classroom
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Why disability affects the classroom?

• IDEA -
• Individuals with Disability Education Act

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IDEA

• Free public education must be offered to any
  student with a disability
• IEP - Individual Education Program
• LRE - Least Restrictive Environment

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How disability affects the classroom?
Different aspects of the classroom disability may
affect

• Students with disabilities
• Students without disabilities
• The teacher of the classroom

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How Teachers Should Address Disability
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Students with disabilities in inclusion settings
significantly increase the range of curricular
applications that teachers are required to know
and implementMeyem, Vergason, and Whelan
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Although many conditions may be visible and
obvious, parents may tell the teacher or nurse
about specific conditions or impairments in some
cases the family may choose to remain quiet about
the impairment and not inform the school
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Methods for promoting success

• Co-teaching
• Collaborative consultation
• Peer collaboration
• Prereferral teams
• Teacher assistance teams

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IndividualizedEducationPlan
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Curriculum Based Collaboration
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Discipline in the classroom

• Because even one student can destroy the
  learning environment for an entire class,
  behavior problems must be addressed
• Meyen, Vergason, and Whelan

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Points to Remember

• Remember that a person with a disability is a
  person - like anyone else
• Relax
• Appreciate what the student can do
• Be considerate
• Remember we all have handicaps
• Speak directly to a person with a disability
• Speak calmly, slowly, and distinctly

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How Ability Affects the Classroom
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To take into account with ability in the Classroom

• Alternated administrative arrangements
• Assessment of Gifted programs
• Training Needs
• Curriculum Development of Gifted programs
• Federal effort
• Matching of learner and instructor

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How Teachers Should Address Ability
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• Identify the gifted students in the classroom
• Curiosity
• Good memory
• Fast learner
• Observant
• Strong interest in reading

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• Feed the gifted childs hunger for exploration
  and curiosity
• Classroom
• Self-Initiated activities
• Choice of projects to choose from

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• Let the gifted children explore (dont punish!)
• Be very flexible and excepting

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• Grading and evaluating
• Rubric first!

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