SPU 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Helen Keller, Autism Spectrum, Traumatic Brain Injury
25 Oct 2016
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Exceptional learners: the importance of abilities, person first, disability versus handicap, disability: unable to perform activity, handicap: how the environment hinders you, disability versus inability, specific developmental misgrowth. 1: asd- autism spectrum disorder, ed- emotional disturbance, hi- hearing impairment, vi- visual impairment, oi- orthopedic impairment, speech & language disorder, tbi- traumatic brain injury, hi/vi, sld- specific learning disability, ohi- other hearing impairment, deafness, multiple disabilities. Possible forms of special education: special materials, specialized teaching techniques, specialized equipment and/or facilities, related services, occupational therapy- fine motor skills, speech & language therapy, counseling/ emotional therapy, physical therapy- gross motor skills. Late 18th to mid 19th century- itard and seguin. Taught the deaf/unteachable (taught uncivilized kid who lived in wild) Systematic educative procedures for the hardest to teach children. First residential school for students who were blind (helen keller) First american residential school for students who were deaf (gallaudet u. ) Breaking down barriers to participation in society.
