Developmental Milestones

Create a 15 slide minimum professional development digital presentation for staff members which outlines developmental milestones. Within your presentation, include how these milestones may be different for students with the following types of disabilities:

Intellectual disabilities
Learning disabilities
Emotional or behavioral disorders
Physical disabilities
Other health impairments
Autism spectrum disorders
Be sure to include a title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.

In addition, create a brochure for staff to be distributed as a take-away. Include developmental milestones as they vary for each type of disability with 1-3 suggested specific instructional strategies (some strategies may be repeated if applicable).

Developmental Milestones Rubric:

· 50.0 %Developmental Milestones Content: Comprehensive presentation of all 13 categories of disabilities under IDEA. Presentation thoroughly details how milestones may be different for: intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional or behavioral disabilities, physical disabilities, and other health impairments.

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· 35.0 %Brochure Take-Away: Comprehensive brochure provided, thoroughly detailing developmental milestones as they vary for each type of disability and three teaching strategies.

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· 5.0% Layout: The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text.

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· 5.0% Language Use and Audiences Awareness (includes sentence construction, word, choice, etc.): The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope.

· 5.0 %Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use): Writer is clearly in control of standard, written academic English.