Disability Awareness

What is the definition of 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.

Most people with disabilities cannot work.

• True

• False

People with disabilities always need help to accomplish every day activities.

• True

• False

The Paralympics are for people with disabilities.

• True

• False

People with disabilities want to be respected and have the same opportunities as people without disabilities.

• True

• False

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

Disabilities can occur by

• Birth
• Car accidents
• Fall on ice
• All of the above

Strategies for working with students with Developmental Disabilities

• sitting the student in the back of the classroom.

• giving the student coloring sheets all instructional day

• Visual and/or gestural cues

  Sensory activities

  Developmentally appropriate activities

  Concrete directions

  Paired approach

• ignoring the student throughout the day

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

• Blind

• Deaf

• ADHD

• Uses sign language