| Students with Severe/Multiple Disabilities-Chapter Nine | |||
| Characteristics: Please describe the following characteristics of learners with severe/multiple disabilities. | |||
Intellectual Functioning
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Adaptive Skills | Motor Development | Communication Communicating with speech may be difficult. Students may not ely on speech to communicate and/or their speech may be difficult to understand. What else?
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Cause:
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What is the Apgar Test? | Summarize the educational placement of students with multiple disabilities.
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What is partial participation?
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Peer Support: A student supporting another student in learning. Has increased rates of academic responding and reduced rates of problem behavior.
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To be completed in class-- In your universally designed curriculum, identify 2-3 specific skills a learner with a multiple disability might develop while engaged in your lesson. Remember, the focus for their education is on adaptive or life skills. Emphasis is typically on exposure to the general education curriculum with prioritizing skills they can work on relative to their daily life.
How might you use peer support to teach these skills? Be specific.
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