05:300:383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Childhood Cancer, Peer Tutor, Muscular Dystrophy

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Education
• Course: 05:300:383
• Professor: J Harrison

Document Summary

13 special education categories: autism, blindness, deafness, emotional disturbance, hearing impairment. Intellectual disability: multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impaired, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment. 2: limited strength, chronic or acute health problems, affected educational performance. Health disabilities: chronic illnesses, asthma, tuberculosis, childhood cancer, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart defects, blood disorders, diabetes. Infectious diseases: hiv and aids, hepatitis b, storch. Characteristics: epilepsy, can involve the entire brain (generalized seizures) or part of the brain (partial seizures, some anticipate their seizures, there are four main types of seizures, absence, simple partial, complex partial (psychomotor, generalized tonic-clonic, cerebral palsy (cp): Prevalence: determining the exact prevalence of students with physical and health disabilities is difficult at best, there is no national registry of students by specific conditions, conditions co-exist, not all conditions require special education services.