Characteristics Of Students with Orthopedic Disabilities

- Orthopedic Impairment

• Severe impairment can affect a child's education 
• Often called physical disabilities

- Impairments can be caused by congenital anomaly.

• Clubfoot
• Missing member

- Impairments can be caused by disease.

• Polio
• Bone tuberculosis

- Impairments from other causes.

• Cerebral palsy
• Amputations
• Bone fractures
• Burns

- Asthma is most common deal with in the airways and causes inflammation, which makes breathing difficult.

- Cerebral palsy, caused by brain damage before or during birth. Deals with coordination, speech, and motor control.

- Spina bifida, a birth defect that causes paralysis and intellectual functioning.

- Epilepsy, the most common neurological impairment, causes seizures.

- Muscular dystrophy is, chronic disorder that weakens your muscles.

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Instructional Strategies/Accommodations For Students with Orthopedic Disabilities

- Understand the Impairment

- Know the nature of it and how severe it is

- Creative use of assessment, access the strength areas for your student.

- Use assistive technology

• Mobility Aids
• Wheelchairs
• Crutches

- Adjust the content of the class to the need of the student.

- Give them other ways to communicate in the classroom and work with the content.

- Accommodate them for.

• Classroom activities
• Assignments
• Groupwork
• Lecture

Resources For Students with Orthopedic Disabilities

- Video - This video gives you more information on OI - https://study.com/academy/lesson/video/orthopedic-impairment-definition-characteristics.html 

- Video - This video gives you ways to accommodate your students in your classroom with OI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcHiX57WgEA 

- Video - this clip goes in detail how to transition OI students into your classroom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2WTHqEhpvk 

- Resource - This webpage holds more resources for Oi students - https://specialeducationsupportcenter.org/disability-categories/orthopedic-impairment/ 

- Support Resource - This page goes into detail on how you can support OI students - https://pressbooks.usnh.edu/understandingandsupportinglearnerswithdisabilities/chapter/orthopedic-impairments/