SED 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Advantageous, Motorized Wheelchair, Homeschooling

• School: ISU
• Department: Special Education
• Course: SED 361
• Professor: Virginia Walker

Document Summary

Education of learners with severe disabilities: individuals with severe disabilities are. A heterogeneous group in terms of disability characteristics, capabilities, and educational needs. Any individuals who requires extensive support in one or more major life activities in order to participate in a community. Activities such as mobility, communication, self- care, and learning necessary for community living, employment, and self sufficiency. Having both a physical and intellectual disability. Three waves of disability movement: professionals institution, parent dissatisfied with options that were being offered to the children. World war ii: self advocacy and inclusion in society, strength-based thinking. All students can learn and make progress. Deficit-based: he struggles to grasp the ideas from the text when they are read aloud to him. Current debate about whether all students should be able to receive an education. Zero reject principle: all school aged children, regardless of the severity of their disability, are entitled to a free, appropriate public education.