Quiz 1 Flashcards
Difference between habilitation and rehabilitation
habilitation: disability from birht, no prior skills
rehabilitation: disability later in life, pior skills need to relearn
What does aural
habilitation entail ?
Auditory perception training
● Visual cue training
● Communication modality
training
● Psychosocial counseling/
support
● Management of amplification
School Based AuD. considerations
● Employed directly by district you work for with school employee benefits
● Performing comprehensive audiology services requires investment in
diagnostic equipment
● Being a district employee makes AuD an “insider”
● Caseload may grow without additional compensation
● Cost may be less per individual service
● May be assigned other duties outside of audiology
● Likely can visit schools quickly if tech issue
● Don’t have to worry about billing
Contracted Services AuD
● Work for many different school districts
● No employment benefits
● Contract specifies caseload and services offered
● Position as consultant makes AuD an “outsider”
● Contract may evolve during the year as needs change
● Responsible for other people’s HAT equipment
● Overall cost per service may be higher
● District does not have to shoulder cost of diagnostic equipment
● May take longer to reach students when tech issues reported
1 full-time equivalent (FTE) educational audiologist to every __________students
10,000
What differentiates
educational audiology from
clinical pediatric audiology?
Educational Aud: Identify hearing status for children, oversees school hearing screenings, interpret education impact of results, measure acoustics in classrooms
Clincal Aud: Identify hearing loss at earliest stages in hospitals/clinics, evaluate, verify technology for a variety of disorders, work with families doctors and referral sources,
Beyond clinical competencies, an Ed AuD must be knowledgeable about_______.
Educational referral, follow up procedures, and special education eligibility
requirements
● Structure of contemporary learning environments and their implications on
classroom acoustics and learning
● IFSP, IEP, and 504 planning processes and procedures
● Collaboration and consultation with teachers and other school professionals
regarding the relation of reduced hearing to academic and psychosocial skill
Statutes
States what a law was designed to do and who it affects/protects
Regulations
States the specifics of how the law is to implemented and applied
The most significant laws affecting special
education in the US
1973: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
1975: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
○ Has been reauthorized and amended several times
1990: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
○ Has also been reauthorized and amended over time
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Civil rights law for people with disabilities
● Prohibits recipients of federal funding from discriminating against
“otherwise qualified individuals
Section 504
prohibits entities that receive federal funds (such as
schools) from discrimination based on disability.
● Students with disabilities must be provided equal access to participate in or
benefit from the same educational opportunities provided to others without
disabilities
Examples of Major life activies
● Caring for one’s self
● Performing manual tasks
● Seeing
● Hearing
● Eating
● Sleeping
● Walking
● Standing
● Lifting
The Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA) 6 major principles
- Full educational opportunity
○ All children with disabilities are entitled to a “free and appropriate public education”
(FAPE) - Identification
○ Requires Child Find programs to identify and evaluate children suspected of having a disability within the jurisdiction of the public agency - Multidisciplinary evaluation
○ Requires a comprehensive evaluation from multiple disciplines before placement in special education - Individualized Education Program (IEP)
○ Educational programming is determined based on an individual’s needs - Least restrictive environment (LRE)
○ Students with disabilities must be educated with their typical peers to the maximum extent possible - Procedural safeguards and due process
○ Establishes regulations, standards, and procedures for compliance with procedural
safeguard
IDEA- 14 qualifying conditions
- Autism
- Deaf-Blindness
- Deafness
- Emotional Disturbance
- Hearing impairment
- Intellectual disability
- Multiple disabilities
- Orthopedic impairment
- Other health impairment (OHI)
- Specific learning disability (SLD)
- Speech or language impairment
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired, including blindness
- Preschooler with a disability
