Disability Awareness (Polk)

Defining Disability

• A disability is an impairment/handicap condition that prevents a person from perform weekly living skills.

• A disability is a mental/physical condition that prevents a person from perform monthly living skills.

• A disability is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities, for example, walking, thinking, seeing, speaking or hearing.

What year did Florida start its first Special Education Class?

• 1950

• 1926

• 1996

• 2019

Where were the first Special Education Classes were held in Florida?

• Miami

• Tampa

• Orlando

• Jacksonville

What are some of the disabilities that fall under Special Education?

• not completing assignments

• Autism Spectrum Disorders-ASD

  Developmental Delay-DD

  Deaf and Hard of Hearing-DHH

  Dual Sensory Impaired-DSI

  Intellectual Disabilities-InD

  Emotional Behavioral Disabilities-EBD

  Specific Learning Disabled-SLD

• truancy

What is the correct way to describe a student with disabilities?

• The Autistic student struck another student during lunch transitions.

• The Emotional Behavioral Disorder student got into a physical altercation with another student during P.E.

• The Student with Autism struck during lunch transitions.

• The Student with Emotional Behavioral Disorders got into physical altercation with another student during P.E.

A person with limited vision or can't see at all is considered?

• Blind

• Deaf

• ADHD

• Uses sign language

A person with a hearing impairment or problem is considered

• Blind

• Helpless

• Deaf

• Mean

A person with a physical disability is always in a wheel chair?

• True

• False

Some people can have more than one disability problem?

• True

• False

A person with Dyslexia sees letters switched around or backwards when they read?

• True

• False