Given a Student with Significant Health or Physical Impairments, Discuss

question 73

Essay

Given a student with significant health or physical impairments, discuss modifications or adaptations that may need to be made to ensure the student is getting their needs met to be successful in school. Include at least one modification/adaptation from five of the following areas of concern: environmental arrangement, communication, instructional and curricular modifications, modifications and assistive technology for content areas, class participation, assignments and classroom tests, and sensory and perceptual modifications.

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Definitions:

Changing Criterion Design

An experimental design in which the intervention's effectiveness is demonstrated by gradually altering the criterion for reinforcement to shape a target behavior.

Performance Level

The degree or standard of proficiency or achievement demonstrated by an individual or group in tasks or activities.

Stepwise Fashion

A methodical and sequential approach to a process, breaking it down into smaller, more manageable steps.

Multiple Baseline Design

A research method used in behavioral science to measure the effects of an intervention across multiple scenarios or subjects.