CHS208 Unit 4 Discussion Latest 2020 August

CHS208 Teaching Exceptional Learners

Unit 4 Discussion

Down Syndrome, Fragile X & Intellectual Disabilities       

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

In addition, read and review one article about intellectual disabilities from the Disability Scoop. Explain why we should we read this article? What did you learn? How has the article influenced your thinking in any way?