Delays in Cognitive Development

Neurological deficits, deprivation, environmental factors,or a combination some kids don't develop cognitive skills typically.
These students may demonstrate differences in Quantity/Quality of their cognitive skills.
- Examples: Learning colors, shapes and similar basic concepts.
They may also have issues with more advanced concepts too
- Example: counting, numbers, reading printed or writing language.
Students often have trouble generalizing things to learn to other situations or concepts.

Atyipcal Social/emotional Development

If a student experiences developmental delays it manifests from social and emotional domains.
- Example: Being too trusting of others. This allows others to take advantage of them.
Students also struggle with reading and understanding social and nonverbal cues. These affect emotional states or social conventions, linguistic cues during interpersonal interactions.
- Example of this: Autism- individuals with this disability can show excellent verbal skills, but be unable to initiate or maintain conversations. or struggle with turn-taking.
- Example: Intellectual disability, Autism, or Behavior Disorders (ADHD)-example of this is students may have difficulties with impulse control, emotional self-regulation, sustaining attention, interfering with social interactions as much as academic performance.

Atypical Development of Gross Motor Skills:

Motor Development of a child,
- Examples: If an s/he cannot stand, walk or run.
Signs of Atypical gross motor skills-when a child is 3-12 months old, if a child DOES NOT open his/her hands, or if the child has difficulty sitting up on their own without support.
Signs of Atypical gross motor skills-when a child is 12-36 months old, If a child has trouble walking/running up and down stairs, rolling, catching or throwing a ball; or jumping or hopping. These children have higher or lower muscle tone than normal problems with motor planning, motor coordination, balance, proprioception.

	Created by Christa Black over 4 years ago

Missouri Educator Gateway Assessment Mild/Moderate Cross Categorical Special Education Test Code (050)