Name: CABLAYAN, Arnold Espinosa Section: BSE 1E

I. Evaluation

Fill in the following matrix with definition, learning and behavior characteristics of the
categories of CSN.

Categories with
Definition, Types and Characteristics
Special Needs
 Refers to substantial limitations in preset functioning
 Characterized by significantly sub-average intellectual
functioning, existing concurrently with related limitations
in two or more of the following applicable adaptive skill
areas:
 Communication
 Self-care
1. Mental
 Home living
Retardation
 Social skills
 Community use
 Self-direction
 Health and Safety
 Functional Academics
 Leisure
 Work
 Refers to high performance in intellectual creative areas,
unusual leadership capacity, and excellence in specific
academic fields
2. Gifted and
 Giftedness refers to the traits of above-average general
Talent
abilities, high level task commitment and defining
characteristic shows in superior memory, observational
powers, curiosity, creativity and ability to learn.
 Disorder in one or more of the basic psychological
processes involved in understanding or in using language,
spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an
imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or
3. Specific to do mathematical operations.
Learning  The term includes such conditions as:
Disability  Perceptual handicaps
 Brain injury
 Minimal brain dysfunction
 Dyslexia
 Developmental aphasia
 A condition exhibiting one or more of the following
characteristics over a long period of time and marked
degree, which adversely affects education performance:
 Inability to learn which cannot be explained by
intellectual, sensory and health factors
4. Emotional and
 Inability to build or maintain satisfactory
Behavioral
interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers
Disorders
 Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under
normal circumstances
 General pervasive mood unhappiness or depression
and tendency to develop physical symptoms or
fears associated with personal or school problems
5. Speech and  Exist the impact that a communication pattern has a
Language person’s life meets any one of the following criteria:
Disorders or  Transmission and/or perception of messages is
 Communication faulty
Disorders  Person is placed at an economic disadvantage
 Person is placed at a learning disadvantage
 There is negative impact on the person’s emotional
growth
 Problem causes physical damage or endangers the
health of the person
 A generic term that includes hearing impairments ranging
from mild to profound, thus encompassing children who
6. Hearing
are deaf and those who are hard of hearing.
Impairment
 A person is hard of hearing has a significant hearing loss
that makes some special adaptations necessary.
 Display a wide range of visual disabilities from total
blindness to relatively good residential vision.
 A child who is blind is totally without sight or has so little
7. Visual
vision that he/she learns primarily through the other senses,
Impairment
such as touch to read Braille.
 A child with low vision is able to learn through the visual
channel and generally learns to read print.
 May be orthopedic impairments that involve the skeletal
system—the bones, joints, limbs, and associated muscles.
8. Physical
 Health impairments include chronic illnesses, that is, they
Impairments
are present over long periods and tend not to get better or
disappear.
9. Severe  Generally encompass individuals with severe and profound
Disabilities disabilities in intellectual, physical and social functioning.