Chapter 14
Students with Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
Learning Outcomes
• 14.1: Discuss how physical and health conditions may affect students’ learning and
achievement and explain why students from non-White families have higher rates of
some physical and health conditions.
• 14.2: Identify how genetic and environmental factors that contribute to physical
Chapter Heading
Learning
Objectives
Activities in the MyLab with E-text
Additional Class
Activities
Meet Samuel Habib
(Chapter Intro)
MyLab Vignette Video 14.1 (Located
in Chapter Intro)
Defining Physical
Disabilities
14.1
MyLab Self-Check 14.1
MyLab Application Exercise 14.1
Including Samuel
(2009)
Article review
Describing the
Characteristics and
Causes of Physical
Disabilities- Cerebral
Palsy and Spina
Bifida
14.1
MyLab Video Example 14.1
MyLab Video Example 14.2
MyLab Self-Check 14.1
MyLab Application Exercise 14.1
Inquiry: Cerebral
Palsy
Classroom Plan:
Epilepsy
Defining Other
Health Impairments
14.1
MyLab Video Example 14.3
MyLab Video Example 14.4
MyLab Self-Check 14.1
MyLab Application Exercise 14.1
Evaluating Students
with Physical
Disabilities and
Other Health
Impairments
14.2
MyLab Self-Check 14.2
MyLab Application Exercise 14.2
Mock School
Function
Assessment
Including Students
with Physical
14.2
MyLab Self-Check 14.2
Homebound
Placement
Disabilities and
Other Health
Impairments
MyLab Application Exercise 14.2
Educating Students
with Physical
Disabilities and
Other Health
Impairments
MyLab Video Example 14.5
MyLab Self-Check 14.3
MyLab Self-Check 14.4
NIMAS standards
evaluation
Token Economy
Development
Modifications and
Accommodations
Class Activities in Addition to MyLab Activities
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Have the students imagine they are teachers and have been called into a meeting where they were
just told a new student would be joining their class tomorrow. This student is identified as having
spastic cerebral palsy that is hemiplegic on the right side of their body. This student makes
guttural sounds, but is non-verbal. What questions might the [future] teacher ask of the principal
and service providers to ensure the teacher and classroom is ready for the student?
