Lesson plans guide instructional delivery of required curricular content. A good lesson plan is aligned to academic state or national standards a

Acronym/Identification

Details

Category

504 Plan

Plan for students with mental or physical impairments that presents limitations, including learning, but not significant enough to qualify for an IEP. Includes accommodations.

ADHD

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Difficulty with focus, attention to detail, task completion, restless, impulsive.

OHI, 504 Plan, or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

APD

Auditory processing disorder. Difficulty recognizing sounds.

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

ASD

Autism spectrum disorder. Developmental disorder often including difficulty with social interactions and communication and sometimes learning.

IEP

Deaf-Blindness

Hearing and visual impairments concurrently affecting communication and learning.

IEP

Deafness

Requires use of assistive technologies.

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

Depression

Can be considered emotional disturbance based on severity.

504 Plan

Dyscalculia

Difficulty understanding numbers and math facts.

LD, IEP

Dysgraphia

Difficulty with handwriting and fine motor skills.

LD, IEP

Dyslexia

Difficulty with reading and language. Affects fluency, comprehension, decoding, writing, and spelling.

LD, IEP

Dyspraxia

Difficulty with muscle control and coordination.

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

ED

Emotional disturbance. Includes anxiety, depression, ODD, bipolar, OCD, eating disorders, psychotic disorders.

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

Executive Functioning

Difficulty organizing and managing tasks, time management, and remembering details.

504 Plan

Hearing Impairment

May require use of assistive technology or hearing device. Difficulty with taking notes, following discussions, or following directions due to impaired hearing.

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

IEP

Individualized Education Program. Includes modifications. Legal document that provides support and services to students to make academic progress.

Intellectual Disability

Presents significant limitations on learning and adaptive behavior.

IEP

Language Processing Disorder

Difficulty associating a meaning with sounds.

LD, IEP

LD

Learning disorder

LD, IEP

Memory

Difficulty with storing and retrieving information.

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

Multiple Disabilities

Simultaneous disabilities that impair physical movement and/or learning. Such as having an intellectual disability and orthopedic impairment.

IEP

Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities

Often presents as high verbal skills and lower motor and visual/spatial and social skills (e.g., social cues).

LD, IEP

OCD

Obsessive compulsive disorder: Repetitive behaviors, over-thinking, anxiety.

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

ODD

Oppositional defiant disorder. Negative thinking, defiant of others’ requests, refuses to follow directions, aggressive.

504 Plan

OHI

Other health impairment. Chronic or acute health problems that do not fall under any IDEA category that impairs the physical and/or learning environment (e.g., asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, Tourette syndrome, lead poisoning, leukemia, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, ADHD, heart conditions).

IEP

Orthopedic Impairment

A physical impairment that affects the educational performance (e.g., birth defects, bone tuberculosis, cerebral palsy, amputations).

504 Plan or IEP based on severity of influence on academics.

Speech/Language

Difficulty with articulation possibly due to a skeletal, muscular, or neuro-muscular impairment. Difficulty with syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonics, morphemes.

OHI or LD based on severity of influence on academics.

Traumatic Brain Injury

Acquired injury to the brain that significantly affects functionality including memory, cognition, sensory processing, physical functions, speech, abstract thinking.

IEP

Visual Motor

Difficulty processing what is seen and the ability to copy such as taking notes.

LD, IEP (often seen with dysgraphia or non-verbal learning disabilities).