Sentences with phrase «cognitive disabilities know»

Alaska becomes the 16th state to join the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Consortium, a multi-state initiative developing a computer - based assessment designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.

Set for large - scale use during the 2014 — 2015 school year, the DLM alternate assessment system will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple - choice tests can not and is designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, pelinks4u.org, an Internet newsletter specializing in physical education topics, told a story about maturity and selflessness in youth sports in rural Washington state: Michael Denny, the wrestling coach at Housel Middle School in Prosser, Wash., asked his counterpart at Morgan Middle School in Ellensburg, John Graf, if he knew of a Morgan wrestler who would agree to an exhibition match against a Housel wrestler with cognitive and physical disabilities.

The first group included 64 families with children ranging from 14 months to nearly five years old without known physical or cognitive disabilities.

He also developed the first treatment protocol for MS involving the transplantation of stem cells in the U.S. Along with his peers, Dr. Kraft identified the importance of treating the secondary effects of MS, known as hidden disabilities, including cognitive impairments, pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and depression.

Whether the disability is physical or cognitive, knowing that your child may be limited in their life as a result is a difficult thing to cope with.

The Court of Protection case of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council v KW [2014] EWCOP 45 concerned a woman with mental health and cognitive problems, epilepsy and physical disabilities, known as Katherine, who received 24 - hour support at home.