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Learners With Exceptionalities

This document discusses learners with exceptionalities, including categories such as specific cognitive or academic difficulties, social/emotional and behavioral difficulties, physical disabilities and health impairments, and sensory impairments. It defines key terms like disability and handicap, and provides examples of specific exceptionalities like autism, ADHD, and visual and hearing impairments. It also discusses people-first language and includes an activity about researching the Son-Rise program for autism.

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Learners With Exceptionalities

This document discusses learners with exceptionalities, including categories such as specific cognitive or academic difficulties, social/emotional and behavioral difficulties, physical disabilities and health impairments, and sensory impairments. It defines key terms like disability and handicap, and provides examples of specific exceptionalities like autism, ADHD, and visual and hearing impairments. It also discusses people-first language and includes an activity about researching the Son-Rise program for autism.

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Learners with

Exceptionalities
Learners with exceptionalities
Persons who are different in some way from the “normal” or “average” (better use the word
“non-disabled”).
Learning
Disabilities

Sensory
Autism
Impairments

Exceptionalities

Physical
Mental Disabilities and
Retardation Health
Impairments

Emotional and
Behavioral
Disorders
What we you need to have?
Right information
Proper attitude
Disability
A measurable impairment or limitation that “interferes with a person’s ability, for example, to
walk, lift, hear, communicate or learn”.
Handicap
Do not have the same meaning with disability
A disadvantage that occurs as a result of a disability or impairment
The degree of disadvantage (or extent of the handicap) is often dependent on the adjustment
made by both the person and his environment (which may include us, teachers).
Categories of Exceptionalities
Specific Cognitive or Academic Difficulties
Social/emotional and Behavioral Difficulties
Physical Disabilities and Health Impairments
Specific Cognitive or Academic
Disabilities
*Learning Disabilities
Involve difficulties in specific cognitive processes like perception, language, memory or
metacognition.
Dyslexia (reading), dyscalculia (number operations) and dysgraphia (writing)
Specific Cognitive or Academic
Disabilities
*Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Difficulty in focusing and maintaining attention
Recurrent hyperactive and impulsive behavior

*Speech and Communication Disorders


Social/Emotional and Behavioral
Difficulties
*Autism (ASD- Autism Spectrum Disorder)
Is a condition manifested by different levels of impaired social interaction and communication,
repetitive behaviors and limited interests (hyper focused).
They need intense need for routine and a predictable environment.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or Autism is an umbrella term for a group of developmental
disorders that are neurological in origin and cause social, communication and behavioural
challenges.
Children with ASD may also have their sensory sensitivity affected i.e, they may be under or over
sensitive to certain senses (eg. loud noises, certain fabrics etc).
Children with ASD may manifest other disorders.
Physical Disabilities and Health
Impairments
*Physical and Health Impairments. This involves physical or medical conditions (usually long-
term) including one or more of these:
-limited energy and strength
-reduced mental alertness
-little muscle control
*Severe Multiple Disabilities. This refers to the presence of two or more different types of
disability, at times at a profound level.
Sensory Impairments
*Visual Impairments
*Hearing Impairments
Giftedness
This involves a significantly high level of cognitive development. These is unusually high ability or
aptitude in one or more of these aspects: intellectual ability or aptitude in academic subjects,
creativity, visual or performing arts or leadership.
People-First Language
Putting the person first before the disability. Example, Children with autism, not autistic
children.
Revise the following sentences to adhere
to the people-first language.
1. The teacher thought of many strategies to teach mentally challenged.
2. Their brother is mentally retarded.
3. Their organization is for autistic.
4. I attended a seminar about teaching disabled children.
Activity
Surf the internet for the son-rise program for autism. It is based on the life-changing experience
of Ron Kauffman who had autism but recovered. Most practitioners believe that autism is
incurable, but the son-rise program has another approach. Read about it and write a reaction
paper on it.

Submit your output to our google classroom.

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