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Definition- Legally blind is having a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye even with correction such as eyeglasses or has a field of vision so narrow that its widest diameter subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees. Low vision or partly sighted is persons who have low vision have visual acuity falling between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye with correction Diagnosis- Visual acuity is measured with a Snellen Chart which consists of rows and letters. Functional Vision Assessment is a vision teacher observing the student interacting in different environments (classroom, outdoors, stores) under various lighting conditions to see how well a student can perform tasks and identify objects. Causes/Characteristics - Causes: …show more content…

The severity of the hearing impairment depends on where the damage took place in the ear. Conductive is when hearing loss is due to problems with the ear canal, eardrum, or middle ear and its little bones causes can be viruses, diseases, ear infections, malformation of ear structures, foreign bodies in the ear, and osteoporosis. Sensorineural is when hearing loss is due to problems of the inner ear also known as nerve-related hearing loss causes can be head trauma, exposure to loud noise, autoimmune inner ear disease, and osteoporosis. Mixed refers to a combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. This means that they may be the damage in the outer or middle ear and in the inner ear or auditory …show more content…

This is not due to any other disabilities. Trouble with reading and writing is very common in students with SLI. Early expressive delay refers to a significant lag in expressive language in children. About half of children will grow out of this and catch up to speed with their peers, while the other half may continue to have a language impairment for the rest of their lives. Language based reading impairment is a reading problem based on a language disorder. An example of this would be dyslexia. These disorders can be identified through research in student's abilities to be phonologically aware, knowledge of the alphabet, and grammatical speech. These categories can help identify early on If a student has a language-based reading impairment. Speech Disorders: This disorder typically occurs in children (years 9 and younger). This does not refer to the disorders by which children who are developing have an inability to say words correctly. The cause of this disorder is often unknown. Their speech sound production differs from culturally normal, appropriate, speech expectations. Children with this disability struggle to differentiate and produce phonemes or sounds in order to construct words. Articulation disorders involves errors in producing sounds. The individual omits, substitutes, distorts, or adds speech sounds such as a lisp. Voice

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Hearing loss can be categorized by which part of the auditory system is damaged. There are three basic types of hearing loss is conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, and mixed hearing loss. The degree of hearing loss refers to the severity of the loss. The common classification is normal, moderate and severe/profound. The configuration of hearing loss refers to the degree and pattern of hearing across frequencies.

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“My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work” (Biography.com Editors). Gregor Mendel changed history by how he was the one who discovered the principles of heredity. Gregor Mendel marked history when he discovered genetics and how they work. He was the man known as “The Father of Modern Genetics” (The Doc). He is worthy of research because we would not know that we get our traits from our parents, or how it happens.

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The timing of identification was similar in each group. The proportion of students diagnosed with LD who were ELL matches the portion in the schools in the group with RTI. The proportion who were ELL in comparison group suggests underrepresentation with 16% of students diagnosed with LD in schools were 50 percent of students are ELL. Reading difficulties of students with vocabulary and comprehension problems became increasingly prominent as more ELL students were identified as learning disabled in third through fifth

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Some children may have conditions such as Dyslexia, ADHD, Downs Syndrome or Autism, which will cause their communication to be different. They may find it hard to interpret what an adult is asking them to do or they may not be able to communicate what they want to say in a way for an adult to understand them. Hearing and Physical impairments will also have an effect on communication. Hearing impairments in a child or adult will create a barrier in communication where the listener will have to use a different form of communication such as sign language or using pictures and gestures. Physical impairments would include disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy or Spina Bifida in the child or adult.

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Social security Board considers blindness as visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the best functioning eye with use of a corrective lens. However, if an individual does not meet the specific requirements if blindness but still has a vision impairment, they may still receive benefits from SSI under disabled people’s

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1. Professor Dennett does not believe in the "hard" problem of consciousness as he believes that any aspect of it that is based in reality will have a scientific basis. The issue is that many people see the aspects of consciousness that there is a scientific basis as not real consciousness; which can actually be seen in the comments on that very video. As different pieces of consciousness become explainable, the definition in people's minds seems to change. I agree with him in the fact that the hard problem of consciousness does not exist.

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However, due to the lack of common diagnostic symptomology and criteria these characteristics are not agreed upon by all practitioners. As such, not all children with CAS present with the same, or even similar, characteristics. This is why evaluation by a speech-language pathologist is essential in the diagnosis of CAS. CAS impacts development of linguistic and higher phonological processing as compared to Apraxia of Speech in adults (Maassen, 2002). Very young children suspected of having CAS do not babble or coo when they are infants (Davis & Velleman, 2000).

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It’s a learning disorder where is makes it more difficult to read and write. I know how difficult it is to live and deal with because my sister was diagnosed with it last year. That’s why I thought that you already knew about it, since it is very common.” The gears in my head were turning non-stop.

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One of the history's greatest figures, Nelson Mandela, once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Over the course of years, this statement has only become more relevant. Maybe that is the reason why the topic of the decline of the American education has been recently spurring such a heated debate among national academic and teaching communities. In “The Chronicle of Higher Education”, Carl Singleton, a faculty member at Fort Hays State University, also presented his reflections concerning the U.S. education system.

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Wright’s everyday life, and thus his speech disorder affects multiple aspects of his life. “Patients have difficulty producing grammatical sentences and their speech is limited mainly to short utterances of less than four words. Producing the right sounds or finding the right words is often a laborious process. Some persons have more difficulty using verbs than using nouns. A person with Broca’s aphasia may understand speech relatively well, particularly when the grammatical structure of the spoken language is simple.

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Cognitive / Function Assessment Report The goal of the second visit to my client was to do a comprehensive functional assessment, which is physical and cognitive function, including independent performance of basic Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), social activities, or Instrumental Activities of Daily living (IADLs), the assistance needed to accomplish these tasks and sensory ability, cognitive and capacity to ambulate. I started my assessment with the Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living to assess more complex activities necessary for functioning in a community setting, for example, shopping, housekeeping, cooking, managing finances, transportation and taking medications (King 2015). The Lawton IADL Scale took me 10 minutes to

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individuals refer to this typical stuttering as “developmental stuttering.” Others refer to stuttering as a “syndrome,” focusing thereby on a set of symptoms that may coexist in any stuttering individual." In term of core behaviors of stuttering, (part word repetitions,

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population has some type of learning difficulties. According to the National Institutes of Health, difficulties with basic reading and language skills are the most common learning disabilities, and 80% of students with learning disabilities have reading problems. Lyon (1996) added that learning difficulties should not be confused with other conditions such as mental retardation, seeing, hearing, and behavioral disorders. None of these conditions are learning difficulties. In addition, they should not be confused with lack of educational opportunities like frequent changes of schools or attendance

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Abstract --“Not all readers are leaders… But all leaders are readers.” - Harry S. Truman. Dyslexia affects 10-15 % of children, many of whom remain undiagnosed. In Greek "Dys" means a difficulty with and "lexia" means with language.

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By four years children are communicating in four to five-word sentences and can be understood by anyone.” (Communication Difficulties -

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