PS379 Lecture Notes - Learning Disability, Individualized Education Program, Ecological Systems Theory
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Differs from the norm require individualized program to fully benefit from education. Need for special(ized) education to fulfill potential. Leads to educational, personal, social or vocational problems. Inability to do something that most people with typical maturation, opportunity or instruction can do. Oscar pistorius motto: born without fibula he learned to walk and run records of running 100m, Prevalence: totally number or percentage of cases of a condition in population. Number of new cases identified over period of time. Record trends and discover reasons for trends. Learning disabilities, emotional disturbance, speech/ language disorders. Specially designed instruction to meet the needs of exceptional students. Remedial intervention: remediation (actually trying to fix the problem, improve on skills) Most appropriate placement where the child can learn. Educational environment is as normal as possible (as close to peers as regular education classroom) Hospital (some exceptionalities include medical problems)they want kids to still go to school (as.
