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Abigail Young SPU 314 MW 4:30-5:50 Dr. Nicole Johnson

Mental Retardation: significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Accommodations: preferential seating extended time on tests/projects open book tests or quizzes reworded/simplified problems or test format less amount of problems assistive technology computerized spell check

Specific learning disabilities: a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
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preferential seating extended time on tests/projects

open book tests or quizzes

reworded/simplified problems or test format less amount of problems computerized spell check

peer support and mentoring

daily feedback and parent communication parent sign homework

Emotional disturbance: 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

Accommodations: preferential seating extended time on tests/projects open book tests or quizzes reworded/simplified problems or test format
breaks between activities use behavioral cues peer support and mentoring daily feedback and parent communication parent sign homework

Orthopedic disabilities: a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
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preferential seating extended time on tests/projects less amount of problems assistive technology voice to text/text to voice technology test questions to be orally read breaks between activities

Visual impairments: an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
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preferential seating less amount of problems assistive technology large print subtitles magnifiers braille reader audio assistive technology test questions to be orally read film or audio alternatives to textbook reading

Lesson Plan
How snowflakes are made lesson 1st Grade Classroom Objectives: Children will discover how snowflakes in nature are really formed, and recreate this process with paper and glue Materials: White paper Scissors Glue Method: Explain that snowflakes are created by water vapours bumping into tiny dust particles, which changes the vapour into an ice-crystal ("sublimation"). This ice crystal then grows by bumping into other vapour molecules. When it becomes heavy enough, it falls to the ground as a snowflake. Play "Snowflake Game": Split children into two groups- water vapour and dust particles. Children drift around slowly and quietly, and when they bump into the opposite (w.vapour or dust particle) they join hands. Once this occurs, these pairs drift and the process repeats itself until the whole class is joined to form a snowflake. (Note: I made the mistake of playing this in the classroom- Noisy! and lack of space.) Making snowflakes: Children first cut out a circle from white paper (water vapour), then rip and/or cut tiny pieces of paper (dust particles) to be glued onto the circle. Evaluation: Students will be assessed based on a visual explanation on paper. They will be asked to illustrate how water vapour and dust creates snow and explain it to the class. via http://www.instructorweb.com/linkgo.asp?L=98&B=resources/weather.asp

preferential seating extended time on tests/projects open book tests or quizzes reworded/simplified problems or test format less amount of problems assistive technology computerized spell check large print subtitles magnifiers braille reader audio assistive technology test questions to be orally read film or audio alternatives to textbook reading breaks between activities use behavioral cues peer support and mentoring daily feedback and parent communication parent sign homework