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PEER BUDDIES TRAINING
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Goals
  • Raise awareness for children and people who have
    a disability.
  • Ensure we as a school, help each other.
  • Help us to appreciate ourselves for the people we
    are.
  • Everyone has a role to protect and ensure safety
    for disabled individuals.
  • Include disabled individuals in our society.

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What Is A Disability
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How should we treat people who are disabled?
  • Why change? They are still the same person as
    you.
  • The same way you would hope to be treated.
  • Treat everyone with the same respect that you
    would want!
  • Dont feel sorry for them however encouraging,
    motivating and raising their self esteem will
    boost their confidence.

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LEARNING DISABILITIES
  • Learning disability is a general term that
    describes specific kinds of learning problems. A
    learning disability can cause a person to have
    trouble learning and using certain skills. The
    skills most often affected are reading, writing,
    listening, speaking, reasoning, and math.

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Famous People
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Famous People
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Autism
  • ...means
  • a developmental disability
  • significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal
    communication
  • social interaction
  • repetitive activities
  • stereotyped movements,
  • resistance to changes in daily routines or the
    environment
  • unusual responses to sensory experiences.

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Deaf-Blindness
  • ...means simultaneous hearing and visual
    impairments, the combination of which causes such
    severe communication and other developmental and
    educational needs that they cannot be
    accommodated in special education programs solely
    for children with deafness or children with
    blindness.

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Deafness
  • ...means a hearing impairment so severe that a
    child is impaired in processing linguistic
    information through hearing, with or without
  • amplification, that adversely affects a child's
    educational
  • performance.

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Emotional Disturbance
  • ...means a condition exhibiting one or more of
    the following
  • characteristics over a long period of time and to
    a marked degree
  • that adversely affects a child's educational
    performance

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Hearing Impairment
  • Hearing Impairment
  • ...means an impairment in hearing, whether
    permanent or
  • fluctuating, that adversely affects a childs
    educational
  • performance but is not included under the
    definition of deafness.

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Intellectual Impairment
  • ...means significantly subaverage general
    intellectual functioning,
  • existing concurrently at the same time with
    deficits in adaptive
  • behavior and manifested during the developmental
    period, that
  • adversely affects a childs educational
    performance.

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Multiple Disabilities
  • Multiple Disabilities
  • ...means simultaneous impairments the combination
    of which causes such severe educational needs
    that they cannot be accommodated in a special
    education program solely for one of the
    impairments. The term does not include
    deaf-blindness.

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Orthopedic Impairment
  • ...means a severe orthopedic impairment that
    adversely affects a childs educational
    performance. The term incudes impairments caused
    by disease and impairments from other causes
    (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures
    or burns that cause contractures).

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Speech or Language Impairment
  • ...means a communication disorder such as
    stuttering, impaired
  • articulation, a language impairment, or a voice
    impairment that
  • adversely affects a childs educational
    performance.

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Visual Impairment Including Blindness
  • ...means an impairment in vision that, even with
    correction,
  • adversely affects a childs educational
    performance. The term
  • includes both partial sight and blindness.

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