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• Special Instruction: Classroom Strategies for Teaching Physically Disabled Students
  Students with physical disabilities are now taught in inclusive classrooms with their peers. Educating them can require modifications and different methods of teaching. Read below to learn strategies for creating an effective learning environment to educate children with physical disabilities.
• Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy in Children: What Can We Do as Teachers and Parents?
  Duchennes Musculalar Dystrophy is one of the most common types of muscular dystrophy in children. What do you do when you have a child with this condition in your classroom? What would your approach be? Read further to find out.
• How to Teach Hand Skills in the Special Needs Classroom
  This article shows teachers how to build fine motor skills for young children in the special needs classroom. These fun hand skills activities can be done easily with low cost resources and little preparation time, and work well alongside formal, targeted tasks for specific hand skills.
• Swimming - Should It Be Part of the Special Education Program?
  Teaching kids with special needs in the classroom is the easy part, but if you confine yourself to the classroom setting you are missing out on the fun and skills that can be gained by everyone getting wet! Disabled swimming is a useful addition to the PE program for all students.
• Adaptive Art Tools for Students With Physical Disabilities
  Students with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy may have spasticity that interferes with manipulating art materials such as markers and paintbrushes. The following are examples of adaptive equipment that helps students with spasticity improve motor control to perform art activities.
• Using Adaptive Equipment to Improve Fine-motor Skills in Students With Spasticity
  Students with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy may have spasticity that interferes with manipulating and controlling school materials such as pencils or scissors. The following example of adaptive equipment may help these students perform fine-motor activities.
• The Profoundly Multiply Handicapped Student: How to Adapt Activities to Promote Fine-Motor Skills
  Educators and parents can help children with severe to profound multiple disabilities improve hand function with environmental and activity adaptations. Increased hand use promotes learning, independence and self-esteem for students with profound handicaps in classrooms.
• The Assistive Technology Glove: Types and Uses
  What is an assistive technology glove? Actually, this question has more than one answer as assistive technology gloves include different products that can help people with various disabilities. Continue reading to learn what products fall under this category and who they may help.
• Special Software: Assistive Technology and Cerebral Palsy
  Cerebral palsy often affects fine motor skills. Computers are useful tools in dealing with these limitations, but using them can present difficulties. Read this article about assistive technology and cerebral palsy and learn how computer software eases difficulties for people with this disability.