7. National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC) http://www.hdi.uky.edu/nectc/NECTC The National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC) examines factors that promote successful transitions between infant/toddler programs, preschool progra Continue Reading...
Maryland Labor Laws INTRODCUTION A knowledgeable and well-trained human resources department in any organization is a very valuable asset due to the scope and importance of employment relations and the effects that those relations have on the profi Continue Reading...
Such is the case with Tennessee v Lane, a case in the Supreme Court that focused on the legality of Congress to enact laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act under section V of the Fourteenth Amendment. The High Court ultimately found that Continue Reading...
The teacher is then given this goal oriented time specific goal development document to aide in supplementing or altering instruction to meet the needs of the specialized student in inclusion and seclusion. (Filler & Xu, 2006, p. 92) This docume Continue Reading...
One trend that needs to be altered is the development of perceptions that stress the ways in which the environment of the classroom and school can be improved to better accommodate and support LD students, which will likely in turn assist all studen Continue Reading...
The students will test you during these first few days. Without steadfast rules and well outlined disciplinary procedures, the students will not respect you. In order to create a positive atmosphere of expectations, procedures and routines, it is a Continue Reading...
Teaching Communication Skills for Students With Autism The conditions for diagnosis for autism that are presently prevalent within the U.S. are those mentioned in the American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistic Manual for Mental Disor Continue Reading...
Assistive Technology The "least restrictive environment" clause of the IDEA requires the student be placed in a standard learning environment whenever it is practical (Beard, Carpenter, & Johnston, 2011). Technology allows students who have vis Continue Reading...
1995;4:303-320. Crocker, AC (1997) the Impact of Disabling Conditions in Children. Wallace RG, Biehl JC, MacQueen, and Blackman JA (Eds.), 1997 Mosby's Resource Guide to Children with Disabilities and Chronic Illness. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, In Continue Reading...
EE values were 10% lower in Down syndrome patients compared with normal babies. Neonatal heartbeats were also found to be lower in Down syndrome babies (6 beats less per min on an average). The researchers found that REE was 14% lesser than healthy Continue Reading...
Educators and other professionals in related fields have responded to the increasing prevalence of the condition by developing and implementing appropriate strategies and interventions even without sufficient understanding of the disorder. Teachers, Continue Reading...
In the past, students with disabilities tended to be isolated from their peers by Special Education paradigms that obliged them to receive learning in a physically isolated setting. Far from helping these children to achieve their full potential, s Continue Reading...
teaching AAC early on impacts developing verbal communication skills in children with autism EARLY TEACHING OF AAC: THE IMPACT ON DEVELOPING VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM The basic problem dealt with in this study is the fac Continue Reading...
Transition Experiences for Students with Disabilities Several years ago I was privileged to teach students with cognitive disabilities in Korea. I taught in an after school program for high school students. As I thought about the subjects that were Continue Reading...
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was first signed into law in 1990, and several amendments to it have been made including the most recent changes made in 2009. Generally, the ADA requires that "reasonable accommodations" are made to infrastruct Continue Reading...
Invisible Diseases From the situations discussed in this case, what communication challenges do people with invisible disabilities (like Margaret) face? What communication challenges do people with visible disabilities (like Joanne) face? In both s Continue Reading...
NCLB The federal government drafted the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) to promote equality amongst disabled children. The Act provides that all children with disabilities should receive equal opportunities, economic self sufficiency, inde Continue Reading...
Children with autism tend to get 'stuck' -- either in the repetition of certain phrases, or 'stuck' on a particular idea in the case of children with Asperger's Syndrome. Teachers can attempt to use these words as a springboard to real communication Continue Reading...
disorder Down's syndrome and the certain ways these individuals are treated in the society. Certain characteristics like their learning ability and their ability to live in the society is emphasized in the paper. Laws and regulations for children wi Continue Reading...
Social Concerns Theory to Social Concerns or Human Behaviors The Theory of Social Concerns or Human Behaviors provides a broad framework into which more narrowly focused research can be viewed from. This analysis will consider three individual res Continue Reading...
"By the 1980s, the field had moved to a functional skills model. As the evidence for this approach mounted, the field refocused on age appropriate skills and knowledge performed in authentic settings and the functional life skills curriculum became Continue Reading...
SPED Assessment In 2002 the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) made changes to their manuals regarding the assessment of mental retardation (MR). The revisions were designed to affect changes in professional practice regarding assessm Continue Reading...
CRISS- Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Jitendra, A.K. (April 2011). Reading Comprehension Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities. Focus on Exceptional Children, Vol. 43 Issue 8, p1-16, 16p. Students with learning disabil Continue Reading...
Depression can be a warning sign that there are more serious potential consequences unless the depression is treated. Background factors that contribute to the issue: The HP2010 offers ten leading health indicators, and within those are sub-categor Continue Reading...
Discuss why they are significant and how clients can be trained in those areas. Persistence: Encourage the client to see every experience as valuable, even a bad interview is still practice Written communication: Know how to communicate briefly an Continue Reading...
Limitations on ADA Requirements: The ADA does not require employers to provide accommodations that pose an undue hardship on the employer or the business entity. The ADA defines "undue hardship" as accommodations that exceed the employer's financia Continue Reading...
This is important because it reflect the certain difficulties the government has to stimulate the employment of veterans in a line of work of their choice. Other statistics mention that not only do a large number of veterans have a disability relat Continue Reading...
They will not have to sit through lessons that are not meant for them. Every lesson would be targeted towards that particular group of students. Teacher Retention Special education is a highly specialized field making teacher retention an even mor Continue Reading...
An IQ level below 70 signifies a deficiency in adaptive functioning. The possible causes of mental retardation may be attributed to three genetic disorders - down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome and fragile X syndrome. The impaired genetics condit Continue Reading...
Nursing is "a profession concerned with the provision of services essential to the maintenance and restoration of health by attending the needs of sick persons." (www.medterms.com) Famous nurse, Florence Nightingale's, greatest achievement was to rai Continue Reading...
Self-Monitoring in Education Putting individuals with "intellectual disabilities" and "challenging behaviors" into regular classrooms is clearly a good idea - the educational literature supports this. But what happens once they are in the classroom? Continue Reading...
Teaching Special Education Students In the classroom, teachers are primarily responsible for ensuring that special education students are provided with equal opportunities for education. While instructors should not lower academic standards in the c Continue Reading...
Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies to everyone, but it can be difficult to ensure that it is correctly applied to defendants with disabilities. That has led to major problems, and has been addressed by several cases, including Faretta v. Califo Continue Reading...
Nursing Education Does nursing have a unique body of knowledge or is it the application of various other fields of knowledge in a practice setting? Nursing does have a unique body of knowledge as Moyer and Whittmann-Price (2008) state "it is nursin Continue Reading...
The ADA does not specifically name all of the impairments that are covered. Title I requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide qualified individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from the full range of employment-rel Continue Reading...
For the first student the mean off task behavior before the AR was reached was zero off tasks per minute while after it was one off task per minute. All the students followed a similar pattern. The AR of some the students were identified as two or Continue Reading...
Behavior and Bias in Access Two-thirds of all students receiving special education in the United States are boys and gender-based behavioral differences and gender bias are behind it (Rousso, 2003). Girls need to show more significant levels of di Continue Reading...
PARC won their case, with the court ruling that all children, including those with identified special needs, were entitled to a "free, appropriate public education" (Eric 1998). This case, and several others that challenged similar laws and/or de fa Continue Reading...
Jones relates that statement of Corrigan: "Our work suggests that the biggest factor changing stigma is contact between people with mental illness and the rest of the population. The public needs to understand that many people with mental illness ar Continue Reading...
Looking beyond the educational, social, and esteem needs of students, the practical considerations of LRE have given substance to the argument for LRE. Given the tight monetary budgets that many school districts are faced with to provide the bare e Continue Reading...
