2. Multiple disabilities is a disability category under IDEA.
As you might expect, children with multiple disabilities have two
or more disabling conditions that affect learning or other
important life functions. To qualify for special education services
under this category, both of the student's disorders must be so
significant that her educational needs could not be met in programs
that are designed to address one of the disabilities alone.
Description
3. Limited speech or communication;
Difficulty in basic physical mobility;
Tendency to forget skills through disuse;
Trouble generalizing skills from one situation to another
A need for support in major life activities (e.g., domestic,
leisure, community use, vocational).
Characteristics
4. Learn at own level with proper support.
Create age appropriate adaptive skills.
Physical therapy to help with independent travel.
Knowing of hearing/visual impairment to alter lessons.
Provide alternate forms form communication (technology).
Suggested Learning Strategies
5. Team of parents, teachers, physical therapists, assistive
technology teachers, and any number of additional support
staff.
Specific steps to success need to be identified, and timelines set
for each educational objective.
Resources and supports to achieve goals should be defined and
addressed.
Peer tutoring.
Tutoring is not a one-way relationship.
Teaching Strategies
6. American Association on Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities
www.aamr.org/index.shtml
The Arc of the United States
www.thearc.org
Center for Disability and Development
cdd.tamu.edu
Council for Exceptional Children
www.cec.sped.org
Additional Resources
7. Logsdon, A. (2011).Multiple disabilities - what are multiple
disabilities? Retrieved
from:http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/mo/g/multiple_disabi.htm
Project Ideal (2011) Multiple disabilities. Retrieved
from:http://www.projectidealonline.org/multipleDisabilities.php
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