Week 4 DQ 2 Intellectual Disabilities

An important part of your job when working with children with intellectual disabilities is the ability to modify instruction in order to best meet their educational needs. Chapter 8 of our textbook offers many teaching ideas & strategies for meeting the academic & social needs of students with a variety of intellectual disabilities. For this discussion you will have the opportunity to put those ideas into practice.

1. Step One: You will research one of the following intellectual disabilities according to your last name. My research will involve Williams Syndrome, an intellectual disability that a child is born with.

2. Choose one of the following grade levels & one of the following academic skills. Then, find a lesson plan for the grade level...