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Lesson 1
Lesson 1
FOUNDATIONS OF
SPECIAL EDUCATION
OUTLINE
• OBJECTIVES OF
SPECIAL
EDUCATION
• CATEGORIES OF
EXCEPTIONALITIES
• INDIVIDUAL
PROGRAMS AND
PLANS (IEP)
TERMS
DISABILITY
• EXCEPTIONALITY
• HANDICAP
• IMPAIRMENT
DISABLED
INDIVIDUAL WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT
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SPECIAL EDUCATION
• An educational
program/service designed to
meet the needs of children
with special needs who
cannot profit from general or
regular education because
of disabilities or exceptional
abilities.
FOUNDATION
•learning disabilities
•developmental delays
•emotional and behavioral
disorders
•communication disorders
•hearing disabilities
•visual impairments
•physical disabilities
13 LEGAL CATEGORIES FOR
EXCEPTIONALITIES
1. Autism 8. Orthopedic Impairment
2. Deaf-blindness 9. Other Health impairment
3. Deafness 10.Specific Learning Disability
4. Emotional Disturbance 11.Speech or Language
5. Intellectual Disability Impairment
6. Hearing Impairment 12. Traumatic Brain Injury
7. Multiple Disabilities 13. Visual Impairment
1. AUTISM
A developmental disability significantly affecting
verbal and nonverbal communication and social
interaction.
3 Primary Features
- Restricted range of
social interaction
- Impaired
communication skills
- Persistent pattern of
stereotypical behaviors,
interests, and activities
2. DEAF-
BLINDNESS A concomitant hearing and
visual impairments, the
combination of which causes
such as severe communication
and other developmental and
educational needs that they
cannot be accommodated in
special education programs
solely for children with
deafness or children with
blindness.
3.
D EAFNESS
A hearing impairment that is
so severe that the child is
impaired in processing
linguistic information
through hearing; with or
without amplification that
adversely affects a child’s
educational performance
4. EMOTIONAL
AD ISTURBANCE
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.
- Inability to learn that cannot be
explained
- Inability to build or maintain satisfactory
interpersonal relationships with peers
- Inappropriate types of behaviors
- A general pervasive mood of
unhappiness
- A tendency to develop physical symptoms
5. HEARING IMPAIRMENT
An impairment in hearing,
whether permanent or
fluctuating, that adversely
affects a child’s educational
performance but that is
not included under the
definition of deafness.
6. INTELLECTUAL
DAISABILITY
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.
7. MULTIPLE DISABILITIES
Concomitant impairments,
the combination of which
causes such severe
educational needs that
they cannot be
accommodated in special
education solely for one
of the impairments.
8. ORTHOPEDIC IMPAIRMENTS
A severe orthopedic impairment that
adversely affects a child’s educational
performance.
Includes:
- Congenital anomalies
Ex. clubfoot
- Caused by disease
Ex. poliomyelitis
- Other causes
Ex. Cerebral palsy
9. OTHER HEALTH IMPAIRMENTS
Having limited strength, vitality or alertness
including a heightened alertness to
environmental stimuli, that results in
limited alertness with respect to the
educational environment.
- Due to chronic or acute asthma, ADD, ADHD,
diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead
poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and
sickle cell anemia.
- Adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
10. SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY
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 an imperfect ability to
listen, think, speak,
read, write, spell,
or to do
mathematical
discussions
Also brain injury,
minimal brain
dysfunction,
development
aphasia.
11. SPEECH OR LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT
A communication
disorder, such as
stuttering, impaired
articulation, language
impairment, or a voice
impairment, that
adversely affects a
child’s educational
performance.
12. TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
An acquired injury to the
brain caused by an
external force, resulting
in total or partial
functional disability or
psychosocial
impairment, or both,
that adversely affects a
child’s educational
performance.
13. VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
An impairment in vision
that, even with correction
adversely affects a
child’s educational
performance.
The term includes both
partial sight and
blindness.
Learning knows no boundaries