Ian Mc Donough

Special Education 457

101 Strategies and Techniques for My Professional Practice

The purpose of this collection of ideas is:__help meet the needs for special education students.
__________
A strategy(S) is abroad approach to accomplish the main goal
__________________________________________________
A technique(T) is an approach that we use with in an executive functioning strategy. It is the
specific way on how we are going to accomplish out goal. These are what work within a
strategy. _____________________________________
UDL/A is_(Universal Design Techniques) the top techniques that are the ones a teacher with
use all the time in the classroom. ______
RtI is _(Response to Intervention) Process to figure out if a student needs to be in special
education. _______________

Name:

Autism

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Purpose

1. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

1. A method that observes the autistic child and

provides instruction on necessary missing
skills. Uses the Reward Method.
2. Provides an organized school environment
with a planned schedule, visual aids, and clear
instructions and can be modified to fit
students needs.
3. Sensory Therapy, to help children develop the
language skills for ones who posses Tomatis
vocal exercises.
4. Uses play to teach children emotion
engagement, to help focus in class.
5. Integration with general education students.
To help better teach the student.
6. The Educator holds the students arm and
encourages the child to push the right keys to
effectively use the computer keys in mean of
communication.
7. Visual aids for communication and education
8. For students who cant talk, they use sign
language for communication purposes.
9. Adds large amount of physical exercise to

2. TEACCH

3. Sensory Integration Therapy

4.Developmental, Individual Difference Floor

time (DIR)
5. Inclusion
6. Facilitated Communication

7. Picture Exchange Communication System

8. Sign Language
9.Daily life therapy
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autism students to create a behavioral routine

in the classroom.
10.
Having the student not participate in
the whole lesson and just work certain
assigned problems so they dont have the
pressure of being over whelm.
11.
Having items color-coded will help the
individual calm down because having mess of
colors around might make the student feel
uncomfortable.
12.
To help settle any noise that might
irritate the student causing him/her to freak
out.

10. Partial Participation

11. Color Coding
12. Transition noise makers

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Mythology

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Purpose

1. Mythology

1. The use of story telling to help build their

imagine of students. Gets them to think so
they can talk about their emotions.
2. To help students write down their feelings and
emotions to just find a way to let out their
feelings.
3. Big part of Mythology. The concept telling
mythological stories to help create
conversation among students and to help
them think about their lives.
4. To help tell the stories, such as using a drum
to get a rhythm going.
5. To help students open up their feeling by
tapping into their inner emotions.
6. Students will be able to connect with their
imagination and be able to open up. It helps
them if they can relate to some things that are
not related to their lives.
7. Therapy for someone who may need to talk in
private

2. Journal therapy
3. Story telling

4. Instruments to help tell a story

5. Alchemy use with lessons
6. Have Imaginary Conversations
7. Person-to-Person Conversations

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IDD
1. Peer Buddy

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Purpose
1. To help the IDD student with regular
educational activities.

2. Partial Participation

2. Not having the student do all of the work. It

may overwhelm the student and cause him/her
do not do the work.

3. Using Mnemonic Devices

3. To help the student remember lessons

throughout the day.

4. Work to their interests

4. Working towards the student interests so they

can pay attention to the instructor even more.

5. Use their Name for praise/Affirmation

5. To have positive reinforcement when they do

something right.

6. Cross the Midline of the body exercises

6. To help a student build strength in their body

so they can perform daily activities

7. Functional Activities

7. Activities that they do on a daily routine.

8. Working Memory

8. Trying to help a student remember certain

tasks. By having them do the same process over
and over again to help build that memory.

9. Systematic Instruction

9. The teacher working with a student in a strict

and particular manner.
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10. Community Residential Facilities (CRFs)

10. Residential facilities that support people who

have intellectual disabilities.

11. Supportive Living

11. A person with intellectual disabilities receives

support to live in a more natural environment.

12. Sheltered Workshop

12. A structured environment in which a person

receives with other disabled individuals to
receive training on certain tasks.

Name:

ADD

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Purpose

1. Dictation

1. Having some one else write the notes down to

help out the ADD student
2. Help control mind activity so the student
doesnt get overwhelmed during the class
assignments.
3. To build a positive reinforcement so the
student is influence to stay on task.

2. Mindfulness Activities
3. Use affirmative instructions

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ADHD
1. Agendas

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Purpose
1. To help the student focus on what is going to
happen next with in the classroom.

2. Fidget Items

2. Giving an item to help the student calm down

from fidgeting in class and focus on school work.

3. Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)

3. Involves determining the consequences,

antecedents, and setting events that maintain
inappropriate behaviors.

4. Contingency-Based Self Management

4. A strategy that involves having students keep

track of their own behavior and then receive
consequences, usually in the form of a reward.

5. Momentary Time Sampling

5. Allows the teacher to conduct brief observation

and collect data on a specific set of behaviors. In
order to help out with student education plan.

6. Coaching

6. Another way of teaching, whether its by the

teacher or a friend. Someone to help encourage the
student to do better in school.

Name:
Legal/teacher
1. Volunteer to be on IEP

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Purpose
1. Volunteer to be on the IEP committee of any
student to help plan out the students academic
agenda.

2. Working with the Aides

2. People who help out the instructor teach to the

students in the classroom.

3. Way of Council

3. The Ojai Foundation's central and foundational

practice, representing a rich blend of age-old
communication practices that had been brought to
TOF from an array of wisdom traditions.

4. Modeling

4. Demonstrating on how things should be done

properly by showing the students on how to act.

5. Learn helplessness
6. Critical Friends Group

5. Being sympathetic and understand to be patient

with the student and understand what they are
going through.

7. Interleaving (games or activities)

6. A program to help students build bonds with

students around there age and help promote
positive learning experience.

8. Age appropriate material

7. Activities that involves students having fun while

learning in a positive environment.

9. Teach to the whole learner

8. Material that is appropriate for the students

mental age. Even if the student is 12 years
chronologically but mentally is 8 years, then
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material must be at an 8 years old grade level.

10. Affinities (use them to help work for you)

9. Dont teach to certain students that excel in

certain areas, but teach to everyone in the class so
they all can benefit.

11. IEP

10. Seeing what the student really enjoys and teach

to those interest to help them learn more.

12. Manipulative
13. Ask the student what they see

11. Individual Education Plan. A plan to help a

student learn in an appropriate way to their
particular needs.

14. Prim Book

12. Using other objects to help the student adjust to

his and her environment.

15. Student Study Team

13. Getting their opinion and see what they are

learning. Getting their side of the story.

16. Using Scribes

14. Educational book filled with strategies to help

teach students.

17. Self Evaluation on Behavior

15. A team of teachers to help a student fully

benefit from their educational experience.

18. Competency Theory

16. To help a student write down notes. An aide

will help a student to do this process.

19. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

(IDEA)

17. Asking the student to self evaluate oneself on

how they think they are doing in class.
18. Help the student understand the proper
behavior in class.

20. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

19. Education for all disabled children.

21. Modifications

20. General purpose of making learning accessible

21. Changes made in instruction of assessment to

make it possible for a student with a disability to
respond more normally.

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Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Name:
Physical/Mental Disability
Purpose
1. Self Portrait (Poem)
1. Writing a poem to talk about oneself. If the
author is unable to write down the words, someone
else will do it for them.
2. Transparency Sheets
3. Visual Learners
4. Magnifying Glass
5. Prosthesis
6. Orthosis
7. Adaptive Devices

2. Help a student read better. Different colors are

implemented to help the student see the writing
better.
3. Students who learn better through visual means.
4. A device that makes the lettering bigger to help
the student see well.
5. An artificial implant to help the students
capabilities.
6. A device that enhances partial function of a body
part
7. For daily living. Are enabled to help support the
person in every day life.

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Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Name:
Behavioral Disabilities
Purpose
1. Picture Journal/Journal
1. To help write down their thoughts to help express
themselves and their feelings.
2. Positive Behavioral Support (PBS)

2. Supporting the student in a positive way to they

can progress on doing a good job during class.

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Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Name:
Families with Disabled Children
Purpose
1. Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSPs)
1. Family oriented, help the family understand the
needs of the child and help stimulate a positive life
style.
2. Sibshops
2. Resources for students who have siblings that are
3. Traveling Notebooks
disabled.
4. Person-centered planning

3. A notebook that travels between school and

home to show progress on what the student/child is
doing.
4. Encourages individuals to make their own
decisions with respect to services while
professionals mobilize resources and supports to
help individuals to meet goals.

Name:

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Learning Disabilities
Purpose

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1. Direct Instruction
2. Class wide Peer Tutoring (CWPT)
3. Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS)

1. A method to help teach students on class

content.
2. All students in general education classroom
routinely engage in peer tutoring for particular
subject matter.
3. Students help tutor other peers in particular
subject matter.

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Name:
Deafness/Hard of Hearing
Purpose
1. Sign Language
1. Another form of communicating with out needing
to speak to a person.
2. Oralism-Manualism Debate
3. Bicultural-Bilingual approach
4. Fingerspelling
5. Hearing aids
6. Captions

2. Debate on trying to teach deaf individuals to

speak.
3. Promotes ASl as a first language and promotes
instruction in the Deaf Culture.
4. The representation of letters of the English
alphabet by finger positions. Also used to spell out
certain words.
5. Used to help students with hearing problems.
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Helps enable them to hear.

7. Text Telephones
8. Transliteration

9. Cochlear Implantations

6. Words that show up on a screen when showing

some form of an educational video to allow student
to read since they cannot hear what is going on.
7. A telephone type of message that allows anyone
else who has a TT to see the message.
8. Similar to singed English, maintains the same
word order as spoken English. Just needs an
interpreter to understand the meaning before it is
conveyed through signs.
9. Artificial ear implants to help students hear.

Name:

Top Ten Universal design (UDL/A) Strategies and techniques List

Blindness/Low Vision
Purpose

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1. Braille

1. A system of raised dots by which people who are

blind read with their fingertips.

2. Orientation and Mobility (O&M)

3. Obstacle Sense

2. Skills refer to the ability to have a sense of where

one is in relation to other people, objects, and
landmarks (orientation).

4. Echolocation

3. An extra sense that blind people pick up which

can be used to help teach them new techniques or
abilities.

5. Cognitive Mapping

4. Which is the ability to detect objects in the

environment by auditory echoes.

6. Phonological awareness

5. Blind people can learn to make mental spatial

representations of their environment.

7. Literary Braille
8. Nemeth Code
9. Slate and Stylus

10. Large-Print Books

6. Helping to read braille, it is a way to help blind

students read if they have a problem with
processing tactile information.
7. Other form of braille. Used more for technical
reading and writing.
8. Used for mathematical and scientific symbols.
9. A pen shape instrument is pressed through the
opening of the slate, which holds the paper between
the two halves.

11. Long Cane

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10. Books with large size print to help low vision

students to see the written print.
12. Tactile Map
13. Braille Note takers
14. Descriptive Video Service

15. Screen Readers

11. A can that can support balance and help a

student understand his/her surrounding.
12. An embossed representation of the surrounding
environment.
13. Provide the same purpose as a slat and stylus,
but offers speech-synthesizer and word processing
capabilities.
14. Is a narrated description of key visual features of
programs on television to help students understand
what is going on.
15. Can magnify information n the screen, and
convert on-screen text to speech.

Continue the format you create and by the end of the term you must have a total of 101 total

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