DD+Life+Skills

Developmental Disabilities DD & Mild Intellectual Disability MID
Mild Intellectual Disability - A learning disorder characterized by: a) an ability to profit educationally within a regular class with the aid of considerable curriculum modification and supportive service; b) an ability to profit educationally within a regular class because of slow intellectual development; c) a potential for academic learning, independent social adjustment, and economic self support.

Developmental Disability – A severe learning disorder characterized by: a) an inability to profit from a special education program for students with mild intellectual disabilities because of slow intellectual development’ b) an ability to profit from a special education program that is designed to accommodate slow intellectual development; c) a limited potential for academic learning, independent social adjustment, and economic support.

Role of EA - Educational Assistant

Assist the teacher in the delivery of programs, procedures and activities required to meet the identified needs of individual students or small groups. Communicate to the teacher observations of student achievement and behaviour as directly related to delivery of individual programmes.

http://odc.scdsb.on.ca/departments/speced/photo.htm

=Life Skills =  is a non-credit bearing program that focuses on literacy, numeracy, social, employability and personal skills. The program is customized to suit the needs of each student. Students are integrated into other courses within the school and/or participate in cooperative education work placements.

Types of Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills can be grouped into different types.  [|Locomotor skills] are those used to move the body from place to place, like walking and running.  [|Manipulative skills] involve moving an object, such as a bat, ball, or [|jump rope].  [|Stability skills] are related to balance and weight transfer—for example, standing on one foot or dodging an obstacle.

 Locomotor skills are a category of motor skills. They are a group of movements in which the feet move the body from one place to another. Roughly in order of how children learn them, these skills are: Most children learn to walk at approximately one year old, and to run, hop, and jump at two. They begin to master galloping, skipping, sliding, and leaping at about age three. Children need some instruction to learn these skills and lots of opportunity to [|practice] them (but most will think that is fun).  [|how motor skills develop].
 * Walking
 * Running
 * Hopping
 * Jumping
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Skipping
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Galloping
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Sliding (a sideways gallop)
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Leaping

<span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manipulative skills include:
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Pushing
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Pulling
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lifting
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Striking (e.g., swinging a baseball bat or [|golf club] to hit a ball)
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Throwing
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kicking
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rolling (a ball)
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Volleying
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bouncing
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Catching
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Dribbling

<span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stability skills are motor skills involving balance and weight transfer. To master these skills, children must be able to maintain and adjust various body positions. Stability skills include:


 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"> Static balance skills, stationary postures such as standing in place or balancing on one foot
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dynamic balance skills, such as tumbling, stopping, dodging, landing (after a jump)
 * <span style="color: #191919; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"> Axial stability, such as bending, twisting, turning, swinging, or stretching

http://familyfitness.about.com/od/fitnessvocabularyterms/g/locomotor.htm

=Transition Planning - Connections - see page 12= http://www.qamtraining.net/docs/english/Connections%20-%202010.pdf

[] =A Guide to Transition Planning - Connections - see page 36 for sample for student with high needs=

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/speced/transiti/transition.pdf