Other Health Impairments

Disability Label & Prevalence

Definition

General Characteristics

Identification & Assessment

Educational Approaches

Educational Placement Alternatives

Other Health Impairments

11.6% Special Education Population

IDEA - having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that—
(a) is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and sickle cell anemia; and 
(b) adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

Depends on disability and individual

Depends on disability and individual

Teaming and Related Services: physical therapists, occupational therapists

Environmental Modifications

Assistive Technology

Animal Assistance

Special Health Care Routines: seating and movement, lifting and transferring students

Independence and Self-Esteem

General Education Classroom

Resource Rooms

Separate Classrooms

Home/Hospital

Description of 2 evidence-based strategies

ADHD - TWA: Students are given passages to read and are asked to identify: “Think Before Reading” which means questions like “What’s the author’s purpose? What do you know? What do you want to know?,” and “Think While Reading” which is reading speed, linking knowledge, rereading, and lastly “Think After Reading” which focuses on main idea, summarizing information, what you learned. Students who practiced the nine steps when reading improved scores significantly.  (Johnson, Reid, & Mason, 2011)
ADHD - Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) (Jacobson & Reid, 2010): Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) is an instructional approach designed to help students learn, use, and adopt the strategies used by skilled writers. It is an approach that adds the element of self-regulation to strategy instruction for writing. It encourages students to monitor, evaluate, and revise their writing, which in turn reinforces self-regulation skills and independent learning. (Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy, 2011)

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Daily Report Cards: a list of target behaviors and overall behavioral goals that are aligned with a child’s Individualized Education Program and can be documented by a teacher on a daily basis. The report finds that use of DRC improved both the student’s academic success and behavior. (US Department of Education, 2012)