02 Feb Respond to the prompt

Unit 4 discussion

DQ1 Down Syndrome/Fragile X

For this discussion, the class will be divided into two groups:

If your first name begins with A-L, you will work on strategies to support children who have Down syndrome.

If your first name begins with M-Z, you will work on strategies to support children who have Fragile X.

Regardless of the group to which you are assigned, the assignment is the same. Due to the complexity of this discussion, you will receive full credit when you provide your response to the prompt and comment on two other posts, one on your topic, one on the second.

This week we have reviewed typical development and began our work about atypical development. This week’s focus was on Down syndrome and Fragile X. Now that you have read the lecture, several articles and viewed several videos for an overview of these two disabilities, it is time for you to put all of your reading to practice. Your task is to provide appropriate teaching strategies to support the development of a student in your classroom who has the assigned disorder/disability. With what you have learned about the disability, please describe at least one strategy to address each of the domains: social, emotional, cognitive and physical. You can refer to the information provided, use the sites you have reviewed or locate other sites/information on your own. Whatever you decide, remember to cite your sources. Hopefully by sharing the strategies and resources, you will begin to develop a “Strategy Bag” so that when a child with one of these disabilities enters your classroom, you will feel more confident in your ability to meet his/her needs. We acknowledge that children with these disabilities are individuals and not all of the children will exhibit the same concerns or characteristics. This is an opportunity to put theory into practice.

Please state one of the disability’s main characteristics that your strategy is meant to address and provide the strategy that will address that characteristic.

The recommendation is:

State the domain

State a characteristic of a child with the disability related to the targeted domain

Describe the teaching strategy you would use

Domain

Characteristic

Strategy

Social

Emotional

Cognitive

Physical

DQ2 Learning Disabilities

Please visit all (14) tabs related to learning disabilities on this PBS site about learning disabilities.

Respond to this prompt:

Think about inclusive practices and students with a learning disability. Why might a general education classroom be the least restrictive environment for most of these students? What are some effective strategies that you might use? What information might you share with the families?

NOTE: The prompts for the Unit 3 and Unit 4.2 discussion boards are the same. However, the Unit 4 content and PBS resources are new. For the U4.2 DB, you must:

Visit the PBS Parents website and review all 14 tabs; and

Respond to the prompt using information you learned from the PBS Parent resources.

Thus your original reaction and responses to classmates are based on the current Unit 4 resources and should not be the same as your Unit 3 postings.

As you develop your original reaction, you could take the perspective of parents/families/guardians and critique the PBS Parents website from their lenses. Share your thoughts on: “How informative and helpful is this website and its resources?”

Lastly, it would be interesting to compare the Unit 3 and Unit 4 Discussion Board reactions. This is not required. However, you may want to respond to the following question:

After reviewing the PBS website, have you gained new knowledge and new resources?

Remember to use APA FORMAT in your responses!