Teaching Students With Sensory Disabilities

Learn how to provide targeted support to students with sensory disabilities! With the right modifications, students with sensory disabilities-impairments that affect how well they see and/or hear-can participate fully in general education classes alongside their neighbors and peers. In Teaching Students With Sensory Disabilities discusses the defining characteristics and specific needs of students who are categorized as deaf, blind, or deaf-and-blind. Offering numerous practical classroom management tips and surprisingly easy instruction adjustments, this valuable resource shows teachers how they can provide instruction in a highly effective manner that will foster the independence of students with visual and hearing impairments in the general education classroom. Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this highly informative guide discusses everything educators need to know about students with sensory disabilities, including: Cognitive characteristics and issues Academic characteristics and issues Physical characteristics and issues Behavioral characteristics and issues Communication characteristics and issues