Psych Final
...be learned are being able to facilitate a narrative; recounts, eventcasts, accounts, and stories. B) You can accommodate those activities by allowing students opportunities to tell what happened that day or just giving children a chance to express themselves. 5) If a deaf child was mainstreamed into my class, I would go about increasing his/her academic achievement by making sure that there was a person at the school that could help to translate for the child. Also, I would try to learn some basic sign language in order to be better able to communicate with the child. 6) A) Some misconceptions about people with hearing impairment are; it is unhealthy for people who are deaf to socialize almost exclusively with others who are deaf, people in the deaf community are in favor of mainstreaming students who are deaf into regular classes. B) The reasons for deaf culture are obvious. The deaf are regarded as having their own culture because they exhibit the traits of a culture: linguistic diffrentiation, attitudinal differences, behavioral norms, endogamous marital patterns, historical awareness, and voluntary organizational networks. 7) A) There is no real difference in language development between sighted children and visually impaired children. The only minor difference is that visually impaired children’s first words often come later. B) The key factor in the educational classification of visual impairment is that the visually impaired child should not be assessed the same as a sighted child, also, the impaired child would have the luxury of learning things incidentally, they have to take much more initiative to learn. 8) A) Learned helplessness is a problem for many children who are visually impaired because they have to try ten times as hard just to learn what sighted children are learning easily. If the visually impaired child slacks a little on their studies, then they are more apt to fall behind. B) I would accommodate visually impaired children by making sure I am very descriptive with my instructions and making sure I pay attention to detail in my classroom. I would also give that visually impaired child the extra attention that is needed in order for him/her to succeed. 9) Visually impaired students often are assessed based on scales that will need to be adjusted for the child’s exceptionality. The thing that needs to be observed is that the visually impaired child is getting information in different ways and in different forms. 10) A) The main advantage of Braille is that the visually impaired child is able to lead a relatively independent life. The main disadvantage is that in the school system, not enough teachers are proficient in Braille and those teachers do little to discourage the notion that using Braille indicates inferiority. B) Technology has made it more possible for persons with visual impairments to lead more “normal” lives. Since they now have some of the technological advances that make leading a normal life feasible. 11) The difference between congenital and acquired physical disabilities are congenital disabilities are present at birth, however, acquired physical disabilities are just that- acquired during life. 12) A) Cerebral Palsy is a condition which is characterized by paralysis, weakness, incoordination, and/or other motor dysfunction because of damage to the brain before it has matured. B) Four categories of cerebral palsy are: Hemiplegia, Diplegia, Quadriplegia, and Paraplegia 13) A) Seizures are caus...