Entering Procedures

1. Greet a presenter (or two!) with a handshake or high five.

2. Find a comfortable place to sit.3. Enjoy each other’s company!4. Be ready to begin when you hear the chimes.

Using HET to Meet the Needs of Children with Exceptionalities

Your presenters:Kerry LanceErin Mauldin

Cheri VanimanStephanie Neal

Building Community

• Who are we?

• What are we all doing here?

• Where do we belong?– Learning Clubs– Barnyard Babble

• “Getting to Know You” activity

A Penny for Your Thoughts

1. With your Learning Club divide your construction paper into five sections.

2. Use the 5 categories on the following slide to discuss with your Learning Club.

3. Toss a penny onto the construction paper.

4. Share with your Learning Club something about yourself related to the category to which your penny lands closest.

5. Continue until everyone has shared.

Plans for summer…

A great book I read or movie I saw…

Something interesting about

my family...

If I could be anywhere but here…

The best thing about my

school year so far…

Now that we’re acquainted…

• Review today’s agenda

• Strategies/Reflection/Chart– Barnyard Babble– Penny for Your Thoughts

Why it Works!

Wednesday

Who Are All These People?

What’s the BIG IDEA?Exceptionalities and

HET Strategies

Reflections

Who are our children with

exceptionalities?

Today’s Agenda

Brain Talk

Exceptionalities and HET Strategies

Brain Break

Who are our children with exceptionalities?

• OHI (Other Health Impaired)– ADHD– Physical/health

• Learning Disabilities

• MID (Mild Intellectual Disabilities)

• EBD (Emotional/behavioral Disorders)

• Autism

• Speech/Language

Stand Up, Hand Up

• Stand up and raise your hand. • Start walking and make eye contact with

someone at a different learning club.• Give your new partner a high five.• Discuss which exceptionalities you have

worked with in your classroom over the years.

The BIG IDEA

Students with exceptionalities are children who have struggled in

certain academic and behavioral areas. Our job is to help these students with exceptionalities

learn and implement strategies to make them successful. Making

learning meaningful is effective for all students!

So….How does HET meet

the needs of children with

exceptionalities?

Brain Talk

controls emotions, stimulated by

non-verbals(body language &

movements),eased by

commonalities & irritated by differences

Amygdala

Hippocampus controls

learning, short term memory,impacted by

adequate sleep, needs visual

stimuli (symbols,pictures, etc.)

Cerebral Cortexcontrols language

& logic, planning, long-term

memory

Brain Stem controls

survival functions,fight, flight

or freeze

p. 27

Exceptionalities/HET Strategies

Specific learning disabilities

are defined as a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in

understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may

manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak,

read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations.

Strategies:• Visual Agenda• Being There Experiences

• Body mapping• Graphic Organizers

• Modeling

Exceptionalities/HET Strategies

Other health impairment means having limited strength, vitality or alertness including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational

environment.**ADD/ADHD

Strategies:• Environment is not cluttered – systems, organization

• Brain Breaks/ movement breaks

• Immediate feedback

• Target Talk

Brain Break

The BLOB!

Exceptionalities/HET Strategies

Autism is a developmental

disability that adversely affects a student's

educational performance and significantly affects verbal and non-verbal

communication and social interaction and

participation. Other characteristics associated with: unusual responses to

sensory experiences, resistance to environmental change or change in daily

routines.

Strategies:• Visual Agenda• Brain Breaks• Australia• Body Mapping• Lifelong Guidelines / LIFESKILLS

Exceptionalities/HET Strategies

Emotional Behavior Disorder is an emotional disability

characterized by the following:

• An inability to build or maintain satisfactory

interpersonal relationships with peers and/or teachers. • Consistent or chronic inappropriate type of

behavior or feelings under normal conditions.

• Displayed pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.

Strategies:• Emotional safety• Lifelong Guidelines / LIFESKILLS

• Australia• Multiple Intelligences/Choices

3-2-1 Snowball

1. On a sheet of paper write the following:–3 Things you learned–2 Things you want to try–1 AHA!

2. Form a circle around the trash can.

3. At the signal, try to make a basket.

4. When directed, grab a snowball and take turns sharing with the group.