#there is no rule that states it must be a 5-7-5 syllable pattern

[vinbee631]

*not the haiku bot and not a traditional haiku but-

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[brightideaed]

IDEA’s 13 SPECIAL EDUCATION DISABILITY CATEGORIES

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The individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the federal law that supports special education and related services for children with special needs from the age of 3 to 21. This act is legislated to ensure that children with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE) that help them progress and learn in the least restrictive environment (LRE). However, for the children to receive an individualized education program (IEP), they must be evaluated. The student goes through a battery of assessments to ensure he or she needs special services. According to the IDEA, there are 13 special education disability categories. Any eligible child would likely benefit from a special education program. Parents must know that not every disability can receive IEP. Furthermore, IDEA has defined the 13 disability categories (34 CFR 300.8). They are as follows:

 1.    Autism (ASD):

Autism (or Autism Spectrum Disorder) refers to a group of complex neurodevelopment disorders characterized by repetitive thought and behavior patterns. Repetitive behavior might look like hand flapping, rocking, jumping, or twirling. It affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interactions. A child with ASD may be susceptible to environmental change or change in daily routines and rituals, even slightly. Moreover, the child can be sensitive to touch, light, and sound. He can demonstrate a constant and hyperactive movement. A child on the spectrum can be impulsive, aggressive with himself and others; his eating habits can be fussy. He may have a lack of coordination and a short attention span. These characteristics can affect a child’s educational performance and support the need for a special education program.

 2.    Deaf-Blindness (DB) :

Deaf-Blindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments. It is a disability in which an individual has both a hearing and visual impairment. Characteristics of this disability may differ from one person to another because the expression of the impairments will likely have varying degrees. A child with DB may need increased volume or ask you to speak louder or slower due to difficulty following a conversation. You may notice a child with DB holding books very close, sitting close to the television, or having difficultly moving around unfamiliar places. All these difficulties can also impact the child’s ability to communicate or make educational progress.

 3.    Deafness/Hard of Hearing (DHH):

Deafness is a type of hearing impairment, but it is believed to be genetic or congenital because of prenatal viral infections, birth trauma, or other reasons. This impairment prevents the child from processing verbal information through hearing, no matter how amplified the sound is. This negatively affects the child’s educational performance.

 4.    Emotional Disturbance (ED):

Emotional Disturbance is a condition in which the child demonstrates specific emotional or behavioral characteristics over a long period. An emotionally disturbed child’s learning and social skill development are impacted for reasons that may not be specific. She struggles to maintain good relationships with others. He may exhibit behaviors of immaturity, withdrawal, and aggression. The behavior can also look like inappropriate crying, severe temper tantrums, excessive acting out,  or fighting.

5.    Hearing Impairment (HI):

There are different degrees of hearing impairment. A child may have a mild, moderate, or severe impairment. Again, deafness is a form of hearing impairment; still, a hearing-impaired person does not meet the characteristics of a person who is deaf.

 6.    Intellectual Disability (ID) :

Intellectual Disability is a general impairment of cognitive or intellectual functioning, social skills, and adaptive behavior.  ID is usually apparent during the child’s developmental years and may look like a child having difficulty understanding social rules or solving fundamental problems. They have trouble remembering things and seeing the results of their actions. You might also see delays with talking or walking in comparison to other children.

 7.    Multiple Disabilities (MD):

The child with MD will have a couple or a few disabilities at once. For example, a child with MD might have an intellectual disability and blindness or intellectual disability and orthopedic impairment. Remember, Deaf-Blindness is its own category, so it is not included under MD.

8.    Orthopedic Impairment (OI):

Orthopedic Impairments may result from polio, bone tuberculosis, cerebral palsy, amputations, fractures, or burns that cause contractures. The condition varies from case to case, but Orthopedic Impairments involve physical disabilities, affecting the educational process. Examples include the student’s inability to access transportation, maneuver around the classroom, and difficulty navigating school hallways without additional services or supports.

9.    Other Health Impairment (OHI):

Other Health Impairment is having chronic or acute health problems, like, asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, etc. All these chronic health problems can adversely affect child performance in school. Each condition has its own traits and causes different limitations, so an IEP will address the student’s specific needs related to their situations.

 10. Specific Learning Disability (SLD):

Specific Learning Disability is various disorders that limit the child from learning. It is an umbrella term that can describe many different types of learning issues. The child can have difficulty concentrating, processing, listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, and performing math calculations. The learning disabilities include dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, minimal brain dysfunction, developmental aphasia, perceptual disabilities, etc.

 11. Speech or Language Impairment (S/LI):

We can find various kinds of speech and language disorders. Articulation is a Speech Impairment where the child produces sounds incorrectly. Fluency is where a child’s flow of speech is disrupted by sounds, syllables, and repeated words. Voice or inflection is where the child’s voice has an abnormal quality to its pitch, resonance, or loudness. Language Impairments where the child has problems expressing needs, ideas, information, and/or understanding what others say. More common speech and language disorders are stuttering, and language impairment can also impact children’s learning and communication abilities.

 12. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI):

A traumatic injury is a physical injury that occurs suddenly, with a certain degree of severity. A traumatic brain injury can affect problem-solving skills, sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech. Special Education services support the student’s altered learning capabilities.

  13. Visual Impairment (VI):

 Visual Impairment refers to any kind of vision loss, whether the child cannot see at all or has partial vision loss. Some people are completely blind, but many others have what is called legal blindness. Special Education services help students who are VI learn needed skills to access their curriculum and learning environment.

Before closing, please note IDEA also references Developmentally Delayed as a special education category. It is often counted as a minor category because it is a category that can only be assigned to students under the age of 9 (in most states). At a certain point, your child will need to be reevaluated for continued eligibility determined by your state. He/she must qualify under at least one of the 13 primary categories to continue receiving special education services and supports. According to the IDEA, only students who meet these specific categories’ criteria can benefit from an individualized education program.

[donghun-s]

the very large sp3arb tag

so @sp3arb has tagged me in a total four tags recently and i’m finally getting around to all of them!! tysm for all the tags, meri (btw i love your name?? i think its super cute!) and i hope you learn a bunch of unnecessary stuff abt me lmao (under the cut bc this is a long ass post)

i dont have a name for this tag

1ST RULE: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

im not tagging anyone bc im bad at things and most ppl i wanna know about, meri has already tagged so

2ND RULE: BOLD the statements that are true.

APPEARANCE: - I am 5'7 or taller - I wear glasses - I have at least one tattoo - I have at least one piercing - I have blonde hair - I have brown eyes - I have short hair - My abs are at least somewhat defined - I have or had braces

PERSONALITY: - I love meeting new people - People tell me I am funny - Helping others with their problems is a big priority of mine - I enjoy physical challenges - I enjoy mental challenges - I am playfully rude to people I know- I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it - There is something I would change about my personality

ABILITY: - I can sing well - I can play an instrument - I can do over 30 pushups without stopping - I am a fast runner - I can draw well - I have a good memory - I am good at doing maths in my head - I can hold my breath underwater for over a minute - I have beaten at least 2 people arm wrestling - I can make at least 3 recipes from scratch - I know how to throw a proper punch

HOBBIES: - I enjoy sports - I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else - I’m in a orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else - I have learned a new song in the past week - I exercise at least once a week - I have gone for runs at least once a week in warmer months - I have drawn something in the past month - I enjoy writing - Fandoms are my #1 priority  - I do some form of Martial arts

EXPERIENCES: - I have had my first kiss - I have had alcohol - I have scored a winning point in a sport - I have watched an entire TV series in one sitting - I have been at an overnight event - I have been in a taxi - I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year - I have beaten a video game in one day - I have visited another country - I have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts

MY LIFE: - I have one person that I consider to be my Best Friend - I live close to my school/work - My parents are still together - I have at least one sibling - I live in the United States - There is snow where I live right now - I have hung out with a friend in the past month - I have a smart phone - I own at least 15 CDs - I share my room with someone

RELATIONSHIPS: - I am in a Relationship - I have a crush on a celebrity - I have a crush on someone I know - I’ve been in at least 3 relationships - I have never been in a Relationship - I have admitted my feelings to a crush - I get crushes easily - I have had a crush for over a year - I have been in a relationship for over a year - I have had feelings for a friend

RANDOM: - I have break-danced - I know a person named Jamie  - I have had a teacher that has a name that is hard to pronounce - I have dyed my hair - I’m listening to a song on repeat right now - I have punched someone in the past week - I know someone who has gone to jail - I have broken a bone - I have eaten a waffle today - I know what I want to do in life - I speak at least two languages [i don’t speak two, i speak one and sign in another] - I have made a new friend in the past year

alphabet tag

Rules: answer the questions in a new post and tag 10 blogs you would like to get to know better

I was tagged by Roxanne ( is it ok if I call you Roxy? I like Roxy) Actually @lxx-fxlix  And for some reason it did not give me the notification you did, I was casually stalking your blog when I saw:

A: age? 16 (01 liner)

B: birthplace? North Carolina

C: current time? 7:53 pm

D: drink you had last? Arnold Palmer (half sweet tea, half lemonade)

E: easiest person to talk to? for me, it’s my irl best friend gwen and my best friend on here, krys

F: favorite song? oof i’m super indecisive so i’m just gonna commit to mayday by got7 (it always changes but mayday has stayed on my constantly rotating playlist for nearly six months now; most are on for six weeks, max)

G: grossest memory? uh probably when one of my swim lesson kids tried to eat a bug (they were like four) and i had to make them spit it out into my hands 

H: hogwarts house? proud slytherin!!

I: in love? i love a lot of people, but i’m not IN love

J: jealous of people? not anymore, my self-esteem has gotten so much better in past years

K: killed someone? uhm a couple of times in fics (*cough* jinjin in not like this *cough*)

L: love at first sight or should i walk by again? not love but pls walk by again bc i’m probably enjoying your aesthetics

M: middle name? christine

N: number of siblings? one, an older sister

O: one wish? to adopt a kid with no family or an unhealthy one (obvs when  older and financially stable)

P: person you called last? my sister called me yesterday morning, and before that i had called my friend to tell him abt a near death experience when i was driving

R: reasons to smile? something good will happen to you, you’ll meet someone wonderful, and there’s always new experiences to happen

S: song you sang last? poet by bastille (an underrated fave)

T: time you woke up? about 8 am

U: underwear color? light heathered grey

V: vacation destination? i’d love to go to greece someday! santorini would be my first choice, and then my great-grandparents old village near thessaloniki

W: worst habit? probs my dermatillia (picking at acne on my face until it bleeds, then picking at the scabs, leaving a bunch of scars that will never go away)

X: x-rays? i got one on my tailbone one time, two years after i sprained it bc my mom didn’t believe me

Y: your favorite food? uhhh most anything tbh; i quite like the honey butter chicken sandwich from pdq

Z: zodiac sign? libra

✨ Fun Facts Tag ✨

Rules for this are:

Have fun with it!  

Tag some of your mutuals

1) Favourite colours:

orange!! and after that, any kinds of pastel or muted darks

2) Favourite song at the moment:

lotto by exo has been on replay in my head, my car, and my earbuds

3) Last book you read:

the sun and her flowers by rupi kaur

4) Last TV show you watched:

i tried to watch part-time idol bc hyunbin from jbj was in it, but within the first 15 minutes they set up an unnecessary relationship so i had to nope out of there real hard; i then reverted back to rewatching white collar for the fifth time

5) Last movie you watched:

does john mulaney’s nerflix comedy special comeback kid count?? if not, probably nightmare before christmas way back around christmastime

6) If you have a pet whats their name?:

four dogs: pheonix, kino, midge, and bess; three horses: little man, gem, and andy (ironically i’m allergic to dogs and horses, and my dad keeps buying more)

7) If you have siblings how many?:

one, my older sister

8) Favourite thing to do on a weekend:

i love doing my swim lessons and seeing all my kids!! i haven’t been able to lately bc of the weather, 

9) Best tumblr friends:

i only talk to @cheesyramynry on a daily basis, but i have a lot of blogs that i consider friendly acquaintances or casual friends as well!!

10) Favourite thing about yourself:

i value my compassion and empathy above all else; i am very much the mom friend and love to be it

11) Favourite memory:

ah i have so many; i think rn i’m gonna go with this past christmas, bc it was my last one with my grandfather

12) 3 weird habits:

swallowing gum, taking all my pills in descending size order, i tend to mimic how a singer sounds when i sing along to the song (ex: if they have a british accent, i’ll subconsciously sing in a british accent; if they stress certain syllables in certain ways, i’ll do it too)

13) What would you call your style?:

comfortable (stretchy jeans, t-shirts, hoodies) and with a few signature Gay Things (jean jacket, flannels, oversized mens’ button ups, a couple gay/bi pride shirts)

14) Odd talent:

if i have lyrics in front of me to a song i’ve never heard before, i can predict the pattern of the tunes and rhythm and sing along the first time

15) Do you have a tumblr crush?:

literally all of aroha and all of the sk fandom (y’all are the loveliest fandoms i’ve ever been a part of)

the stray kids tag

Rules: answer the questions in a new post, and tag 10 blogs you would like to get to know better.

I’ve decided that in celebration of Stray Kids pre-debut album I needed to create a tag. The ultimate goal for The Stray Kids Tag is to learn about your Tumblr mutuals, and have fun answering the Stray Kids related questions!  Here we go:

1: When did you decide to join the Stray kids fandom?

i saw a thread of information abt the suspected nine members before they were officially announced and was like ‘yes i must stan them and love them with all of my heart.’ so uh,,,,, back in august or september??

2: What is your favorite episode of Stray Kids? uhm, i’m gonna expose myself rn and let y’all know that i’ve never actually seen a full episode of the show; as soon as i heard it was gonna be a survival show, i knew that i couldn’t watch it bc my heart was too weak and i was emotionally incapable of becoming too invested while watching it; but from clips, i quite like the episode with the 3:3:3 mission, and also the last episode when all nine were reunited and told they were going to debut together

3: Who would you say is your bias in Stray kids?

my initial one was chan, and they i got rlly confused, and then slowly came to realize that it was jeongin (anything else after that is a fucking mess)

4: Who would you say is your bias wrecker in Stray kids?

literally kill me all of them bias wreck me so hard bUT hyunjin, jisung, seungmin, and chan have been wrecking me so hard in particular lately

5: What line would you want to be apart of in Stray kids? uHHH not dance line bc swimmers have 0 coordination on land; i quite like singing even tho i’m not good at, so probably that, but i can also hit all of chan’s english rap parts in 3racha songs, and keep up with lafayette’s raps in hamilton, and a lot of the english rappers i like too so uh,,, sign me up for rap line too

6: What is the first song you heard of Stray kids? hellevator

7: What is the first song you heard of 3racha? i think it was either hoodie season or runner’s high

8: What is your favorite song on their pre-debut album?

young wings or school life or yayaya (or grr or 4419 or glow or hellevator)

9: What is a concept you’d like to see Stray Kids try in the future?

i love their current optimistic and slightly rebellious teenager concept rn bc its an Eternal Mood; but i always love myself a soft boyfriend concept 

10: if you could meet with the members of Stray kids for one day what would you say to them?

how proud of them i am, and how proud of themselves they should be; i would tell them about how they’re saying things that resonate deeply for their fans and i love that they’re talking abt real world problems; i would also make sure to tell them (chan and 3racha especially) to make sure to rest more, and eat well, and take care of themselves emotionally as well as physically; and finally i’d like to tell jeongin how wonderful he is and that he’s doing so much at such a young age (lmao he’s actually eight months older than me but that’s no the point) and to never lose his cute little smile

finally done!! meri, if you actually read all of this, uh thank you????? i hope you now know everything you wanted to know abt me, and probably more than you wanted to know

i’m bad at tagging people, so if you also made it this far and haven’t done some of these tags, choose one, or a couple, or all of them and do them yourself!! just say that i tagged you!!

[britneyshakespeare]

there’s something to me very offputting about alexandrines. iambic hexameter. maybe it’s just my english-speaking brain because they’re so typical in french, but not in english. but i think it’s not just alexandrines, even; it’s any hexameter. i NEVER write in it; not a lot of english poets do. it had its hey-day as a manner of closing tercets in pentameter for poets like pope. it’s mostly a sixteenth-seventeenth century thing in our language, when english poetry was still in a kind of anguished state because no one knew what would be the longevity and spread of the language. i mean, if beowulf, the first english poem, is old english, and no one knows who wrote it, and chaucer was the first english poet, then that period was kind of a middle school phase for english poetry (at least, in comparison to all the progress and different movements since; i think that makes the most sense chronologically). iambic pentameter was still the standard as set by chaucer. but learned poets still would borrow from other languages like french and italian and greek and latin. and it’s french whence we get the alexandrine.

sometimes i think i might just not be used to alexandrines because they’re so infrequent in my native tongue. actually, when i was quite new to poetry, i had trouble getting the hand of iambic pentameter. when i first read shakespeare i had no sense of the rhythm, like a lot of other high school freshman made to go over romeo and juliet. but now, of course i’m comfortable with iambic pentameter! it’s like a second heartbeat. it flows quite naturally. i think some of my initial unease was from the fact that i hadn’t read that much poetry for myself at that point; i was much more comfortable with song lyrics. and a lot of song lyrics in english don’t use pentameter; they use some form of (often imperfect and perhaps unintentional) iambic (or trochaic) heptameter (14 syllables, or 7 feet), at least in pop songs, broken up into two separate lines like the ballad of reading goal by oscar wilde, or most emily dickinson poems. 8 syllables in one line, 6 syllables in the next, another 8-syllable line which may or may not rhyme with the first, and another 6-syllable line that does rhyme (or nearly rhyme) with the second line. an interwoven quatrain. and that works out especially well, and is so common, because a lot of songs use a standard 4/4 beat. 8-syllable lines fill up one measure, and the 6-syllable lines fill up most of a measure, and there’s room for a held-out note or some kind of instrumental riff to fill up the end of the measure. an especially fast-paced pop song may just use iambic tetrameter the whole time and have no pause between lines or held notes (which means, each measure is 8/8/8/8 syllables). or there can be a bunch of different ways to alter it with this meter with alternative lengths of notes, but the general gist is, if you’re filling up a song and each measure is 4 beats, a system of meter where there’s 4 stressed syllables is ideal. four stresses in the lyrics, to match four beats in the music, and unstressed syllables to take up the eighth-notes. and in the matching line of six syllables, one beat, usually at the end, gets to be emphasized by a pause of the vocal to allow the singer to take a breath.

but i’m not giving a long music lesson for nothing. pentameter is very unpopular in music because it exceeds a 4/4 beat measure (unless you get into sixteenth notes or something, or have unusually long pauses for a pop song, or an unusual number of held notes, or an unusually-long held note) (again, a lot of reasons not to use pentameter in your pop song, and why it’s usually used most often in choruses, which tend to be the most unique part of a song so an unusual lyrical meter is less jarring). but i still am now very used to pentameter! some part of me thinks it’s just repetition and practice, and seeing it everywhere since getting into poetry. but i’d also propose that there’s just something pleasing about certain numbers, to the ear. and i don’t know if that has to do with the way we all grow up listening to 4/4 beats in music, or if 4/4 beats in music are particularly common because 4 is just one of those inherently pleasing numbers.

and this is where it matters more how many stresses are in a line, than how many syllables. because my observation applies to any kind of meters, whether they’re iambic (unstressed syllable followed by a stress), trochaic (stressed followed by an unstressed), anapestic (two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed), amphibrachic (three syllables, the one in the middle is stressed and the two around it are unstressed), or dactylic feet (a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed). i think 4 is the most pleasing number, thus, tetrameter (4 stresses per measure, regardless of what kind of foot you use) is so common. and this also explains the commonality of iambs and trochees, as disyllabic feet. two disyllabic feet make four overall syllables, and twice as many make four stressed syllables and four feet. 

but wait, what about the trisyllabic feet: the anapests, the amphibrachs, the dactyls? well, yes: trisyllabic feet are still not inherently jarring, even if they’re less common in english than the iamb. they’re usually the lyrical meter for waltzes, and that makes sense, what with a 3/4 timestamp. that’s one syllable per beat, and one stressed syllable per measure. but waltzes still often have a pattern that occurs every 4 or 8 measures (or even 2), to make the song sound more rounded and pleasing to the ear.

so 4 is a pleasing number, because it’s twice as many as 2, and half as many as 8; by extension, 2 and 8 are pleasing, because of their relation to 4. i should also say, 1 is a pleasing number, not only because it’s the first whole number that stands alone, but it is half of 2, and one-fourth of four. then why is heptameter (7 feet) so common? how can seven be a pleasing number? it’s prime, for fuck’s sake! you can’t divide it by 2, you can’t divide it by 4. i think that would be because of the pause at the end of a 4/4 measure i mentioned up above. when you read a line (or a 4-foot/3-foot couplet) of heptameter, your brain reads a longer pause at the end, before beginning the next line, than the pause between multiple consecutive lines of tetrameter. when you read lines like “he did not wear his scarlet coat,/for blood and wine are red,/and blood and wine were on his hands/when they found him with the dead” there’s a longer natural pause between the words “red,/and” than “hands/when” because the tetrameter completed by “hands” is heard as a whole mental 4/4 measure, and the longer pause between “red,/and” is your brain finishing the beat before going onto the next line. therefore, 3 counts as a pleasing number because of its allowance of a pause of one beat before getting to a fourth, and 7 is a pleasing number because it is the sum of 4 and 3, two pleasing numbers.

pentameter is still somewhat problematic by this line of thinking because by having 5 stresses it violates the rule of a 4/4 mental measure, and that’s probably why pentameter is so rarely accompanied by other meters. it doesn’t mix well like dimeter/trimeter/tetrameter/heptameter where the amount of pauses and line-breaks played around with during a stanza. but there is often, within a line of pentameter, what is referred to as a “turn”: this was something i learned from geoffrey tillotson while reading his book on alexander pope, in the section about correct versification. around the fourth, fifth, or sixth syllable of a ten-syllable line. so, by the time of the second or third stress, and 2 and 3 are, of course, pleasing numbers. in the turn of pentameter, there is a felt change within the phrase. just in “shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?” the turn would be between the words thee and to. “shall i compare thee...” is an independent clause and “...to a summer’s day?” is a dependent. turns aren’t always so logical and definite as to have to be made up of an independent and dependent clauses; they can be made up of a change in tone, a change of subject, or any number of parts that break up a sentence or phrase. but, traditionally, there is a turn in pentameter (at least by the theory of correctness which poets like pope would follow, and enforce when looking at the works of shakespeare). and the turn happens around stresses 2/3 in most instances. and even if it didn’t happen there, it would happen around stresses 1/4 or 4/1. 2 and 3 are pleasing numbers; 1 and 4 are pleasing numbers. as a consequence, this turn, which joins two micrometers of 2 and 3 feet (or 1 and 4 feet) is pleasing. 5 is the sum of only pleasing numbers, in any instance.

this is why hexameter is so sucky. 6 is not a pleasing number. it should be, seeing as it’s twice 3, but remember, 3 is only pleasing because of the mental pause which completes 4. two 3s making 6 is still two less than a pleasing 8, and two more than a pleasing 4. therefore a mental pause must be twice as long as it is in trimeter, which feels unnatural. it’s an unpleasant pause between lines. it sounds in the brain as if it’s too long to be correctly in any correct relation to 4 or 5, and still short of an expected and acceptable 7 or 8. can you believe it?! 6 is a less pleasing number than 3, 5, or 7: all of them odd numbers, all of them prime numbers. it just sounds ridiculous! and oh, it is. it is.

so that’s why i don’t like alexandrines. they are unnatural, and displeasing, from what i have made out in my own head to be the ultimate mathematical guide for writing pleasant-sounding poetry, at least in english, in a culture of people accustomed to hearing 4/4 music from birth. syllables all mean something different in different languages, and hold different types of weights and tones. i’m sure to the french who innovated it, and the later early-modern english poets who imitated it, that it made sense by the kinds of music they were positioned to compare all metrical poetry to. but alas, in my modern english brain, i cannot make sense of the alexandrine.