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Edit question Psychology 251 ~. What are the advantages and disadvantages for children with visual and hearing impairments based on the age of initial occurrence? How does this affect your teaching strategy for the students? Briefly give examples. 2. Normally sighted children enter school with a great deal of knowledge about trees. How could a teacher help the young child who has been blind since birth (congenitally blind) develops the concept of trees? 3. How would you explain the sound of raindrops on a roof top to a child who is congenitally deaf? 4. Based on class discussions and notes, do you think it would be more difficult to teach a child with a visual impairment or an auditory impairment in the regular classroom? Give an example and explain your answer. 5. Define nearsightedness (myopia) and farsightedness (hyperopia). 6. Give a brief description of presbyopia, cataracts, macular degeneration and glaucoma. Next indicate which part of the eye each impairment affects. 7. Explain the hearing process in your own words. 8. Briefly define conductive, sensorineural, mixed hearing loss; noise induced hearing loss, and central hearing loss. 9. Give a brief description of otosclerosis. Which part of the ear anatomy does it affect? 10. Briefly explain the 7 step process of how our eyes bend light. 11. List two genetic and two environmental causal factors for mental retardation. 12. Explain and give examples of the two factors that must be assessed to determine if a person is mentally retarded? 13. List 3 teaching strategies that can be used to accommodate a child with an intellectual disability in the regular classroom. 14. What are 3-5 physical characteristics of children with mental retardation? 15. What is the difference between a speech impairment and language disorder? 16. List 3-5 characteristics of a child with a speech and language disorder. 17. List 3 teaching strategies that can be used to accommodate a child with a speech or language disorder in the regular classroom.

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