· Low-incidence disabilities include autism, moderate, severe, and multiple disabilities, sensory impairments, and physical, medical, and health disabilities.
· Asperger syndrome are students who have extraordinary difficulty in social interactions, such as making eye contact, using facial expressions appropriately and understanding those of others, and seeking out peers and other people, even though their language and intellectual development are typical.
o This website provides teachers with 5 things they should know about a child with Asperger’s syndrome. It is written by a parent which a child entering a public school.
· Students with sensory impairments have either vision loss or hearing loss so significant that their education is affected.
o Resource: http://www.trinity.edu/org/sensoryimpairments/
o This website provides advice for teaching students with sensory impairments strategies for mainstream teachers. It includes many links that provides information for vision loss and hearing loss.
· A type of hearing device is an FM system consisting of a microphone worn by the teacher and a receiver worn by the student.
· Generalized tonic-clonic seizures involve the entire body. A student experiencing a generalized tonic clonic seizure falls to the ground unconscious; the body stiffens and then begins jerking. Absence seizures occur when students appear to blank out for just a few seconds.
o This website is from the epilepsy foundation and tells teachers exactly what to do if a child in your classroom has any type of seizure.
· At the end of 2005, approximately 1411 children under the age of 13 were living with AIDS.
· In one study of parents’ and educators’ perceptions of problems faced by children with chronic illness, parents reported that their children’s most frequent problems were “feeling different”, undergoing constant medical procedures, experiencing pain, and facing death.
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