Into to Special Ed Fall 2021

  Culturally diverse – being from a cultural group what is not Eurocentric or of mainstream America, may or may not be immigrant status Linguistically diverse – having a home or native language other than English, considered LEP or ELL, require language supports in classroom settings Being CLD puts people at risk for discrimination, bias, reduced opportunities, and challenging life situations. CLD students are disproportionately poor and often have limited access to healthcare, being homeless, and attending low quality schools which all creates further inequity. CLD students are distinctive in many ways and their differences can be inaccurately determined to be disabilities. Teachers should recognize that these variations can be due to a culture that is different than the American mainstream. A mismatch of home and school cultures, often referred to as cross-cultural dissonance, may explain why many diverse students seems to constantly be in trouble and why traditional clas...

 The 14 categories of students with disabilities....  1. Intellectual Disability significantly below general average intelligence, existing with deficits in adaptive behavior IQ below 70 difficulty with comprehension and life skills 2. Deaf-blindness Deaf-blindness refers to a child with both hearing and visual disabilities appearing before age 3 often have genetic condition called Usher syndrome   3. Specific Learning Disability a disorder in basic psychological processes the imperfect ability to think, speak, read, write and do math students have difficulties with specific academic skill sets  4. Deafness an inability to comprehend verbal language due to a lack of hearing ability characterized by deafness  these students have a hearing loss in pitch and loudness (greater than 90 decibels) 5. Developmental Disability children age 3-9 with a developmental delay in physical, cognitive, social, emotional, or adaptive development less developed mentally or phy...