Sentences with phrase «with milder disabilities as»

Icahn officials note that they lack space to serve students with significant disabilities requiring self - contained classes and that the network often classifies children with milder disabilities as general - education students.

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But, as the mother of two children who have learning disabilities — my son who has a sort of diffuse mild dyslexia coupled with ADHD which made it worse, and a daughter with classical severe dyslexia — it would not surprise me in the least if intrapartum hypoxia is not discovered to be a major component.

Kerry Robertson is a bright, capable young woman with mild learning disabilities who has been victim of what many perceive as a campaign of revenge after her local social services department first tried to prevent her marriage.

Other proposed changes run the gamut from eliminating the term «mental retardation» — to be replaced with a new «intellectual disability» category — to introducing diagnoses such as «psychosis risk syndrome» and «mild neurocognitive disorder,» which are designed to catch patients in the early stages of a disorder.

«Little research has looked at this severely impaired population — most is aimed at improving relatively mild movement impairments — and, as a consequence, no validated treatment is available to help those with the most severe disabilities,» says Rachael Harrington, a fourth - year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) who will present the study.

They adapt general education lessons and teach various subjects, such as reading, writing, and math, to students with mild and moderate disabilities.

This study evaluated the effects of a computer - based instructional program to assist three students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities in using pictorial graphic organizers as aids for increasing comprehension of electronic text - based...

Doris Helge, executive director of the council, said that rural special educators may be required to work with students with a variety of mild handicaps, such as learning disabilities, behavior disorders, and mild mental retardation, yet many states require a teacher to be separately certified and trained to teach each one of those handicapping conditions.

The primary purpose of the study was to identify the decisions that preservice special education teachers made and the types of knowledge they used when making these decisions as they integrated iPad apps into lessons with students who had mild disabilities.

Inner - city high schools such as Grant tend to have a considerable number of English language learners (ELLs) or students with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities (including students labeled as «emotionally disturbed»).

Technology use has been shown to be beneficial when used as a tool for scaffolding the writing skills of students with mild disabilities.

Using the MacMillan Standardized Reading Test, Boone and Higgins (1993) determined that reading basals with multimedia - supplemented instruction for students with mild disabilities was as effective as normal instruction and, in some cases, better.

About 1.5 million students aged 6 - 11 receive services as students with mild disabilities (out of a total of 2.7 million with disabilities in this age group in the United States).2 In an audience of one hundred 6 - 11 year old students, chances are that about six or seven will have a mild disability of some sort.

The main goal for mainstreaming is often to enable students with mild disabilities to interact with peers who do not have disabilities so as to develop the social skills necessary for healthy social interaction and emotional development (for example, self - control, problem - solving, and relationship building).12 While this reasoning apparently de-emphasizes academic learning, it does not mean that content learning is not important.

The large majority of students with disabilities are classified as having relatively mild disabilities like dyslexia, speech and language impairments and attention deficit disorders.

Adapt general education lessons in subjects such as reading, math and writing for use with students with mild and moderate disabilities.

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It also describes disability according to ten types: seeing, hearing, mobility, flexibility, dexterity, pain - related, learning, developmental, mental health - related, and memory; the severity of the disability: mild, moderate, severe, and very severe; and the impairment or limitations due to the length of time it is experienced, as well as limitation in daily activities: Statistics Canada, The Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 - A Profile of Persons with Disabilities aged 15 years or older, 2012 [Statistics Canada 2012 Profile of Disability], online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2015001-edisability according to ten types: seeing, hearing, mobility, flexibility, dexterity, pain - related, learning, developmental, mental health - related, and memory; the severity of the disability: mild, moderate, severe, and very severe; and the impairment or limitations due to the length of time it is experienced, as well as limitation in daily activities: Statistics Canada, The Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 - A Profile of Persons with Disabilities aged 15 years or older, 2012 [Statistics Canada 2012 Profile of Disability], online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2015001-edisability: mild, moderate, severe, and very severe; and the impairment or limitations due to the length of time it is experienced, as well as limitation in daily activities: Statistics Canada, The Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 - A Profile of Persons with Disabilities aged 15 years or older, 2012 [Statistics Canada 2012 Profile of Disability], online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2015001-eDisability, 2012 - A Profile of Persons with Disabilities aged 15 years or older, 2012 [Statistics Canada 2012 Profile of Disability], online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2015001-eDisability], online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2015001-eng.htm#a0.

They adapt general education lessons and teach various subjects, such as reading, writing, and math, to students with mild and moderate disabilities.

Coursework covers topics such as classroom behavior management, literacy, instructional methods for those with mild disabilities, and collaboration with families and the community.

The Parents Plus Children's Programme was delivered as an intervention for parents of children with mild intellectual disabilities in a special school setting and evaluated as part of a small Randomised Control Trial.

Minimal brain dysfunction was formally defined in 1966 by Samuel Clements as a combination of average or above average intelligence with certain mild to severe learning or behavioral disabilities characterizing deviant functioning of the central nervous system.

Processing applications from second - level schools for resource teacher support in respect of children with high - incidence disabilities such as mild general learning disability and deciding on the level of support appropriate to the school