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Teaching Exceptional Students

Teaching Exceptional Students. cnn.com: increase in diagnoses. Like mainstream students, those with disabilities have legal rights:. http://idea.ed.gov/ Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Accommodations 504 plan - what-is-a-504-plan.

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Teaching Exceptional Students

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  1. Teaching Exceptional Students cnn.com: increase in diagnoses

  2. Like mainstream students, those with disabilities have legal rights: • http://idea.ed.gov/ • Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) • Individualized Education Plan (IEP) • Accommodations • 504 plan - what-is-a-504-plan

  3. autism spectrum video

  4. LD students respond to the curriculum differently than mainstream students: • Learning disabilities fall under three categories: physical, cognitive, and emotional.

  5. LD students may… • Be less engaged in learning tasks • Be unable to cope with multiple instructions • Be poorly organized, both in thinking skills and physical space • Be very rewarding to work with! • 10 common traits of kids with LD

  6. Skills to teach include: Academic skillsLife Skills • Literacy - Social skills • Math - Decision making • Critical Thinking - Organization • Study skills - Empathy • Test taking

  7. Specific approaches for social studies teachers • Multisensory instruction uses a variety of multimedia, such as visual, audio, maps, and hands-on activities. • multisensory social studies instruction • Differentiated instruction- giving students a choice of outcome helps LD students without being spotlighted

  8. Specific approaches cont. • Adapting current curriculum to meet student needs is another common approach • http://www.ldonline.org/article/5629/ - steps to curriculum adaptation

  9. Reading suggestions • Teaching Adolescents with Disabilities by Deschler & Schumaker • House Rules by Jodi Picoult • Teaching Kids With Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom by Susan Wienbrenner Erika's story Tourette's syndrome

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