Low Incidence HEDKE

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Low Incidence Disabilities Presentation

• Christina Hedke

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Blindness

• Total blindness is a simple inability to see
  light or form (Marcovitch 2010)
• Not able to tell the difference between darkness
  and light in any form
• Leading causes are cortical visual impairment
  (CVI), cataracts and glaucoma

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Blindness

• Educational Modifications
• Teaching and use of Braile
• More oral instruction and responses
• Allow extra time for assignments
• Allow use of special devices
• Preferred seating in classroom

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Deafness

• A deaf person is one whose hearing disability
  precludes successful processing of linguistic
  information through audition, with or without a
  hearing aid (Pearson/Allyn Bacon).
• Congenitally deaf are those who are born deaf
• Adventitiously deaf are those who become deaf
  after birth

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Deafness

• Educational Modifications
• Hearing aids and cochlear implants
• Sign language
• Assignments all in written format
• Visual clue and speech reading

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

• Brain damage that occurs after normal brain
  development
• Common injury of war
• Open head injuries involve an opening such as a
  stabbing or gun shot
• Closed hear injuries involve internal damage such
  as compression
• Range from mild to serious effects are immediate
• Students typically look the same physically but
  can not function the same

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

• Educational Modifications
• A significant issue in educating someone who has
  experienced TBI is helping family members,
  teachers, and peers to respond appropriately to
  the sudden and sometimes dramatic changes that
  may occur in the students academic abilities,
  appearance, behavior, and emotional states (Dell
  Orto Power, 2000).
• Specialized training needed for educators
• Recording lessons
• Memory aids

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Comparisons

• All these disabilities have a range of severity
  and need to be treated on a case by case level
• All these disabilities are ones that can not be
  controlled with medication
• All these disabilities are low incidence and
  since they are not frequent in the student
  population most times their needs can not be
  fully serviced in public education

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References

• Blindness. (2010). In H. Marcovitch , H.
  Marcovitch , H. Marcovitch (Eds.), Black's
  medical dictionary, 42nd edition. London, United
  Kingdom AC Black. Retrieved from
  http//search.credoreference.com.contentproxy.phoe
  nix.edu/content/entry/blackmed/blindness/0
• Exceptional learners An introduction to special
  education (11th ed.). Boston, MA Pearson/Allyn
  Bacon.