Useful Strategies for Assisting Children with Disabilities and Special Needs

question 79

Multiple Choice

Useful strategies for assisting children with disabilities and special needs include

• A)​gesturing and/or signing to help communication.
• B)​researching appropriate media and equipment for use in the classroom.
• C)​creating visual aids,such as posters and pictures,to supplement instruction.
• D)​all of the above

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Definitions:

Selective Attention

Selective attention is the cognitive process of focusing on a particular object or task in the environment for a certain period, while ignoring irrelevant informations.

Cocktail Party Effect

The brain's ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much like when a person can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.

Inattentional Blindness

A psychological phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight, due to the focus being elsewhere.

Information-Processing Perspective

A cognitive approach that likens the mind to a computer, focusing on how information is taken in, processed, stored, and retrieved.