A Few Famous People With Disabilities

1. A Few Famous People With Disabilities

2. Dr. Stephen Hawking

3. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease)

4. James Earl Jones

5. Virtually mute as a child …Stuttered for most of his childhood …

6. Tom Cruise

7. Severe dyslexiaCalls himself “functionally illiterate”

8. Dr. Albert Einstein

9. Didn’t speak until after age 3; but rumors of his various disabilities seem to be just rumors …

10. Itzhak Perlman

11. Permanently paralyzed by polio at age 4

12. Christopher Reeve

13. Paralyzed by a throw from his horse – unable to use limbs or breathe on his own (quadriplegia)

14. Ludwig van Beethoven

15. Hearing impairment, deafness

16. Harriet Tubman

17. Traumatic brain injury; epilepsy

18. Alice Cooper

19. asthma

20. ChrisBurke

21. Down Syndrome

22. Michael J. Fox

23. Diagnosed at age 30 with Parkinson’s Disease

24. Drummer from Def Leppard (Rick Allen)

25. Orthopedic Impairment

26. Patty Duke

27. Manic-Depressive Disorder

28. Geri Jewell

29. Cerebral Palsy

30. Marlee Matlin

31. Had Roseola Infantum as an infant which resulted in Deafness

32. Richard Pryor

33. Multiple Sclerosis

34. Stevie Wonder

35. Blind

36. James Brady

37. Shot in the head Traumatic Brain Injury

38. John Cougar Mellencamp

39. Spina Bifida

40. Special education is not a place …It is not a classroom …It is not a school …It is a SERVICE

41. LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT • To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are not disabled, and that special classes, special schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability is such that the education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.

42. Educational Service Options for Students with Disabilities • GENERAL EDUCATION has primary responsibility for student’s educational program. Special education is a support service designed to facilitate student’s success in the educational mainstream. • (Levels 1 – 3)

43. LEVEL ONE • MOST inclusive – MOST number of students – Student placed in general classroom, no additional or specialized service.

44. LEVEL 2 • Student placed in general classroom; the special education teacher in a consultative role provides assistance to classroom teacher. • Number of students lower than level 1. • Second most inclusive.

45. LEVEL 3 • Student placed in general classroom for majority of the school day; attends special education resource room for specialized instruction in areas of need. • Number of children in programs declining still.

46. Educational Service Options for Students with Disabilities • SPECIAL EDUCATION has primary responsibility for student’s educational program. • Levels 4 – 7 • Inclusion declining; numbers of pupils declining as levels progress. • Level 7 – Most restrictive

47. LEVEL 4 • Student placed in special education class for majority of the school day; attends general class in subject areas consonant with capabilities.

48. LEVEL 5 • Student placed in full-time special education class in general education school.

49. LEVEL 6 • Student placed in separate school for children with special needs.

50. LEVEL 7 • MOST RESTRICTIVE • LEAST NUMBER OF STUDENTS • Student educated through homebound or hospital instructional program.