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Disability Categories (Mild Intellectual Disabilities : High incidence…

- - - - Video Cameras
      - Speech-to-Text
      - Adaptive Hardware
      - Complex Voice Output Devices
      - iPads/Tablets
    - - Dry Erase Board
      - Clipboards
      - Photo Albums
      - Routine Checklist
    - - Voice Output Communication Aids
      - Tape Recorder
      - Overhead Projector
      - Calculators
  - - - Visual learners: literature, videos, pictures
      - Auditory learners: audio tapes, books on tape
      - Tactile learners: flash cards, board games, craft projects
    - - Fidgets, stress balls, pencil toppers, tangle puzzles
    - - Include headphones, sleep masks, weighted blankets to help students work through sensory issues.
- - - - Varies by student
        
        No Cognitive Impairment (Majority)
        
        Special seating arrangements to accommodate wheelchair or assistive devices
        
        Cognitive Impairment (Minority)
        
        secure suitable augmentative communication/ other assistive devices
    - - Elevators
      - Wheel Chair ramps .
      - Exercise/Physical Play equipment
    - - School buses outfitted with Wheel Chair lifts and seating spaces
- - - - Computerized voice output communication aids
      - Low-tech message boards
    - - Simple to sophisticated computer controlled wheelchairs
      - Computer cuing systems and robots
      - Direction finding aids
    - - Audio prompting devices for memory difficulties or completion of tasks
      - Video-based instructional materials
- - - - Text-to-speech
      - Speech-to-text
      - Word Prediction
      - Pentop computers
      - Electronic Math Worksheet such as Math Talk
- - - - Provide copies of lessons and unit jargon early
      - Focus attention on student - not interpreter
      - Alter behavior when interpreter - less visual aids or provide handouts of visuals
- - - - Allow oral examinations if written is a problem for students.
      - Hold tests in a very quiet environment, making sure there are no distractions. This allows for less problems and lower anxiety.
      - Allow additional time to complete tests
      - Allow students to clarify and explain the exam answers.
      - Have multiple choice instead of open ended questions.
      - Allow them to use the dictionary or thesaurus for help.
      - Break the exam into several parts and have breaks in between.
  - - - Portable computer for students who may have speech issues, spelling issues, grammar issues, etc.
      - Use of audio in the classroom, audio books, recordings, speech computer programs.
- - - - Give students a chance to interact
    - - Work on explaining the expectations for friendships
  - - - Teach short-term memory strategies like repeating information to oneself, remember things in clusters and use mnemonic structures
- - - - Use visual schedules, whether low-tech or high-tech versions
      - Have clearly established, consistent, predictable daily routines
      - Use visual timers to show how long a task will last
      - Audiobooks:
        Literacy and reading is often an area of challenge for children with developmental delay, audiobooks can help make reading more accessible
    - - Plastic echo microphones can motivate children to practice speaking and making the noises needed for communication
      - Text-to-speech software: A student who has trouble with speech could use a text-to-speech software to type out what he/she wants to say, then the computer reads it out loud
      - Pull-out speech therapy classes with a specialist can help children who may have a speech impediment due to suffering hearing loss due to ear infections
    - - Sticker worksheets to improve fine-motor skills
      - Use of mobile and tablet apps to practice fine motor skills in a gamified way such as the 'Bubble Pinch' or 'Little Writer' apps
      - Encourage more outdoor and physical play time
    - - Social Stories. Sandbox Learning offers high-tech social learning stories that can be customized: https://www.sandbox-learning.com/
      - Role-play scenarios with puppets
- - - - MIT website
    - - Valuable assistant for both the teacher and the student, with audio and visual responses
        
        Teaching strategies Video
- - - - Teacher may need to provide either medication, emergency snack or water. This can be tricky when dealing with very young students.
        
        Teacher should always be connected to the application or device of which the student is monitored. One bad/unbalanced meal can have a dramatic affect on the students health and performance in class.
        
        No modification to lesson plan would most likely be needed.
- - - - These devices can also be connected to an app, allowing deafblind and sighted people to communicate through typing.
        
        The HumanWare Communicator application is intended to establish a text conversation, through a chat window, between a deaf-blind person and a sighted person. All interaction appears both on the deaf-blind person's refreshable Braille display, as well as visually on the screen of the iOS device.
  - - - Touch cues
      - Object symbols
      - Sign language
      - Gestures
      - Picture symbols
      - Fingerspelling
      - Signed English
      - Braille
      - American Sign Language
      - Lip-reading speech
      - Pidgin Signed English
      - Tadoma method of speech reading
      - Large print
- - - - Graphic presentations
      - Synthesized Speech
    - - Unaided Communication Systems
      - Low-tech AAC
      - High-tech AAC
  - - - Modify Instruction and Material