Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities
To have a significant cognitive disability a student, must have a documented cognitive disability that affects intellectual functioning. This would include students with severe to profound cognitive impairments or an intellectual disability. Students with significant cognitive disabilities may have a wide range of characteristics, depending on the combination and severity of disabilities and the student's age, but are not limited to, the following:
- Limited speech or communication
- Difficulty in basic physical mobility
- The tendency to forget skills
- Difficulty generalizing skills from one situation to another and/or
- A need for support in major life activities (e.g., domestic, leisure, community use, vocational)
Students with significant cognitive disabilities and multiple disabilities typically need an individualized education program of special education services and supports that include specially designed instruction, related services, assistive technology, and/or other services required for the provision of a free appropriate public education.
Specific Resources
Curriculum Resources for Fall of 2021:
Students with Hearing and Vision impairments
Instructional Strategies - November 2021
Adaptive living – December 2021
2020 Distance Learning Support
SCD Webinar Series Resources
SCD Presentation 1.18.22 (002).pdf
SCD Back to Basics
The Basics w Engagement 1st.pdf
