Video Resources
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Learning Disabilities: What Are the Different Types?
This video provides an overview of learning disabilities as well as characteristics of specific types.
Speech and Language Disorders
This video provides an overview of speech or language impairments and gives examples of specific types.
ADHD: What Is It, and What's the Difference With ADD?
This video provides an overview of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as well as its similar and differing characteristics in relation to attention deficit disorders.
What Is an Intellectual Disability?
This video provides an overview of intellectual disabilities, their characteristics, and types of diagnoses.
Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
This video discusses the characteristics, classification, and related educational outcomes of students with EBD as well as an overview of effective instructional strategies.
Additional Video Cases
Video Case 2.1: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities
- What supports does Nicole Santana provide to illustrate the concept of “fair is not always equal?” How do these supports assist the students with disabilities who are included in her classroom?
- What advice does April Jacobsen offer to new teachers to help them meet the needs of students with disabilities who are included in their classrooms? How can teachers increase the acceptance of students with disabilities in their general education classrooms?
Video Case 2.2: Including Students with high Incidence Disability
- Students with a variety of disabilities are often included in general education classes. Which high incidence disabilities or categories do the teachers mention when they describe the students who are included in their general education classes?
- What strategies do the teachers use to support students with disabilities who are included in their general education classrooms? Which of these practices are you already familiar with?