Disability Awareness

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.

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

• Blind

• Deaf

• ADHD

• Uses sign language

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 a physical disability is always in a wheel chair?

• True

• False

Some people can have more than one disability problem?

• True

• False

True or False
People with hearing impairments are unable to speak clearly.

• True
• False

Disabilities can occur by

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

What characteristic is NOT a part of ADHD?

• Distractibility
• Impulsivity
• Laziness
• Weak concentration

INCLUSION

• SENDING SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS TO LOOSELY STRUCTURED ACTIVITIES WITHOUT SUPPORT
• ALLOWING SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS TO VISIT GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSES 
• TOTAL INTEGRATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS INTO GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSES WITH SUPPORT
• NONE OF THESE

Difficulties in specific cognitive processes(e.g., in perception, language, or memory) that cannot be attributed to such other disabilities as mental retardation, emotional or behavioral disorders, or sensory impairments

• schema
• learning disability 
• cognitive 
• concrete