Learning Objectives

  1. Describe how cognitive disabilities are identified and served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.
  2. Discuss the impairments you would expect to see in students with intellectual disabilities and the curricular approaches useful in addressing these deficits.
  3. Explain how learning disabilities are identified using the IQachievement discrepancy and the response-to-intervention approach.
  4. Explain the characteristic deficits you would look for in identifying students with reading and mathematics disabilities and how you would approach remediating these deficits.