UNIT 1: Educating Students with Disabilities: Goals and Implications

• Key Terms
• Lesson 1: Principles for Educating Students with Disabilities
  • Principle 1: All Students Can Learn
  • Principle 2: Students with Disabilities Have Different Abilities
  • Group Exercise: What Does Knowledge about the Disability Provide?
  • Principle 3: Education Should Help Students Become as Independent as Possible
  • Principle 4: Some Students Learn Best with Specialized Instruction
  • Principle 5: Whenever Possible, Special Instruction Should Be Provided in Integrated Environments
• Lesson 2: Understanding Students with Disabilities
  • 1) Characteristics of Students with Disabilities are Different, Even When They Have the Same Type of Disability
  • 2) Knowledge of Students' Abilities Will Ultimately Be More Valuable Than Knowledge of Their Disabilities
  • 3) Students wth Disabilities Have More in Common With Their Nondisabled Peers Than They Have Differences
  • 4) Students with and without Disabilities Have the Same Rights
  • "Person First:" It's the Language of Respect
  • Understanding Students with Autism
  • Understanding Students with Blindness or Low Vision
  • Understanding Students Who Are Deaf or Hearing Impaired
  • Understanding Students with Emotional Disturbance
  • Understanding Students with Mental Retardation
  • Understanding Students with Multiple Disabilities
  • Understanding Students with Orthopedic Impairments
  • Understanding Students with Other Health Impairments
  • Understanding Studens with Specific Learning Disabilities
  • Understanding Students with Speech or Language Impairment
  • Understanding Students with Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Assistive Technology and Its Role in Education of Students with Disabilities
  • What Does Assistive Technology Mean to the Paraeducator? What Is the Paraeducator's Role?
• Lesson 3: Background Information on Special Education
  • A Brief History of Special Education
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  • Section 504 fo the Rehabilitation Act
  • Title 1
  • Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA)
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Lesson 4: The Least Restrictive Environment for Students with Disabilities
  
  • What is the "Least Restrictive Environment?"
  • The "Continuum of Services" According to LRE
  • What is "Inclusion?"
  • The Value of Integrated Environments
  • Methods for Providing Services in Integrated Environments
  • The Challenges of Adapting Instruction to Students with Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms
• Lesson 5: The Individual Education Program
  • What is an IEP?
  • Purpose of the IEP
  • Participants in the IEP: The IEP Team
  • Components of the IEP
  • What Skills May an IEP Address?