Special Education Resources
Teacher Guide for Effective Instruction of Exceptionalities
Special Education
The document shared below provides an overview of the history of special education in Ontario up until 2003.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
"Essential for Some, Good for All"
exceptionalities determined by IPRCs
Categories and Exceptionalities:
Behaviour: Behaviour disability
Communication: Autism, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Speech Impairment, Language Impairment, Learning Disabilities
Intellectual: Gifted, Mild Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disability
Physical: Physical Disability, Blind and Low Vision
Multiple: Multiple Exceptionalities (2 or more)
The following is a list of diagnosed medical and pyschological conditions. Click on the condition to go to a link that specifies the strategies you can use in your classroom.
Part of knowing our students is knowing how to meet their specific learning needs. When we have students with additional learning needs in our classrooms, we must be knowledgeable and attentive to tools and strategies that will help them to achieve success.
Not only do we need to know the characteristics of the specific need, we also need to be able to meet those needs through instructional, environmental and assessment strategies.
Alcohol-Related Neuro-developmental Disorder (ARND)
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)
Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAP)
Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAS/FAE)
Mild Intellectual Disability (MID)
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Pervasive Development Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTS)