Students with disabilities are those who have physical or mental impairments that substantially limit major life activities like learning. There are 13 categories of disabilities defined by IDEA, including autism, deafness, developmental delays, emotional disturbances, and specific learning disabilities. To qualify for special education services under IDEA, a student's impairment must negatively affect their educational or functional performance compared to peers. General teaching strategies for students with disabilities include presenting information in multiple formats, allowing flexible demonstrations of learning, teaching memory strategies, and adjusting workload and time expectations with a focus on mastery over pace.

1. Who are
students with
disabilities?

2. Analyzing Unmet Needs
• What are specific examples?
• Is there a chronic pattern negatively
affecting learning?
• Are the unmet needs becoming more
serious as time passes?
• Is the student’s learning/behavior
significantly different from the
classmates?

3. The 13 categories under IDEA include:
Autism
Deaf or Blindness
Developmental Delays
Emotional Disturbance
Hearing Impairments
Mental Retardation
Multiple Disabilities
Orthopaedic Impairments
Other Health Impairments
Specific Learning Disabilities
Speech and Language Impairments
Traumatic Brain Injury
Visual Impairments.

4. Qualified Person with a Disability
• Must have a physical or mental impairment
which substantially limits a major life activity
(e.g., learning).
• Learning substantially limited if no
educational benefit.
• Qualified person with disability must be
provided aids, benefits, or services as
effective as those provided non disabled
students.

5. General Teaching Strategies
• Provide framework for learning.
Ex. Advance Organizer
• Model the processes and strategies.
Ex. Cognitive Training (Direct
Instruction)
• Present information in multiple ways.
Ex. Modeling/Story Telling
• Allow students to demonstrate learning in multiple ways.
Ex. Concept maps, oral test, role play
• Teach students to use memory strategy
Ex. Categorization, keyword method
• Teach self-management & self-monitoring.
• Use learning tool and aids.
Ex. Use of computers
• Adjust workload and time.
Mastery is more important!

6. PECS video

7. PECS video