Working With Special Groups of

COURSE: 7112 Early Childhood Education II UNIT C Children and Child Care Issues

ESSENTIAL Apply procedures and strategies for working with special

5.00 C3 13% groups of children.
STANDARD:
Understand strategies for working with children with
OBJECTIVE: 5.02 B2 7% special needs.
Essential Question​: What are some effective ways to respond to children with special needs?
UNPACKED CONTENT
Special needs​ are individual factors that cause a child’s development---physically, cognitively, or behaviorally---to
vary from the norm. Classroom strategies for working with children with special needs are ​accommodations. ​Early
childhood professionals need to know how to identify and accommodate children with special needs.
Hearing impairments
∙ Impact on language development and other areas of learning
∙ Degree of hearing loss
∙ Accommodations for children who have hearing impairments
Vision impairments
∙ Impact on physical abilities
∙ Need for a consistent room layout
∙ Includes lazy eye, glaucoma, nearsightedness, farsightedness, color blindness, and blindness
∙ Accommodations for children who have vision impairments
Physical and motor impairments
∙ Impact of limited range of motion on experiences
∙ Includes spina bifida and amputations with prostheses
∙ Accommodations for children who have physical and motor impairments
Cognitive impairments
∙ Impact on attention spans and development of intellectual abilities
∙ Impact on motor skills and eye-hand coordination
∙ Impact on social skills and emotional control
∙ Basic categories of cognitive impairments--- mental retardation and learning disabilities
∙ Types of learning disabilities---speech and written language disorders, dyslexia, dyscalcula, reasoning and
memory disorder, and attention deficit disorder (ADD)
∙ Accommodations for children who have cognitive impairments
Giftedness
∙ Extraordinary talent in one or more areas---intellect, artistic expression, physical abilities, etc.
∙ Need for programs that challenge
∙ Accommodations for gifted children
Behavioral and emotional disorders
∙ Impact on learning
∙ Two types--- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism
∙ Accommodations for children who have behavioral and emotional disorders
Special health conditions
∙ Impact on participation in activities; medication requirements
∙ Includes allergies, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, and hemophilia
∙ Accommodations for children with special health conditions