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Education
This series includes five resource booklets on Helping Students with Visual, Learning, Mobility, and Hearing Impairments. Each booklet includes definitions, potential student difficulties, possible modifications by the teacher and learner, assistive technology that may be helpful, and a list of organizations with more information. To view these fact sheets, click on the links below.
Transition Planning for Success in Adult Life
This fact sheet has information for students who are deaf are severely limited in processing information through hearing.
Planeamiento de Transición para tener Éxito en la Vida Adulta
Hearing
This fact sheet has information for students who are deaf are severely limited in processing information through hearing.
Learning
Students with learning disabilities may have difficulty listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, problem solving, and performing mathematical calculations.
Mobility
Students with mobility/physical disabilities usually have difficulty getting from one place to another. This classification includes mobility/physical disabilities present at birth (clubfoot, absence of some member, etc.), disabilities caused by disease (bone tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, etc.), and disabilities from other causes (amputation, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, etc.). Most conditions are permanent and tend to be relatively stable over time. However, some conditions worsen over time (muscular dystrophy, for example).
Student
Close to a million children with disabilities were not allowed to attend their neighborhood school in the past. In 1975 a law passed that guaranteed a free and appropriate education to all children. That law, now called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA, greatly changed the lives of children with disabilities for the better. Because of IDEA, children with disabilities are learning and achieving at levels once thought impossible. Many students with disabilities are graduating from high school, going to college, working full-time, and living on their own.
Visual
Individuals with visual disabilities may have total blindness or partial sight. Students with partial sight may have very different conditions. These conditions are evaluated in various areas such as field of vision and acuity. For field of vision, some students may have good peripheral vision with little or no central vision, or vice-versa. Other individuals may have sight in one eye only, which affects depth perception. Yet other people may have good field of vision (peripheral and central) but their ability to focus on objects or text (acuity) is impaired. Visual disabilities often worsen over time.
The development of the Education Fact Sheets were funded jointly by the Interagency Outreach Training Initiative and the Utah Assistive Technology Program