What is imaginal education?
Imaginal Education is a self-image based learning approach to create positive images resulting in positive actions.
What is profound learning?
Profound Learning is a system of education through which the vast majority of students achieve academic excellence. In a Profound Learning environment, students, teachers, and parents experience a joy not possible in the traditional command and control system of education.
What is the IQ for someone with a profound learning disability?
IQ measurement has traditionally been used to define severity: A person with an IQ of less than 20 would be described as having a profound learning disability. A person with an IQ of 20-34, a severe learning disability. A person with an IQ of 35-49, moderate learning disability.
What is a profound disability?
A profound and multiple learning disability (PMLD) is when a person has a severe learning disability and other disabilities that significantly affect their ability to communicate and be independent. Someone with PMLD may have severe difficulties seeing, hearing, speaking and moving.
Do learning disabilities get worse with age?
3) Can learning disabilities get worse as a person ages? Learning disabilities can present new challenges as your life changes, especially if you are adjusting to a new set of demands like a job change or parenthood. These transitions can cause stress and increase a sense of struggling.
Can learning disabilities go away?
Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but with proper intervention and support, those with learning disabilities can do well in school, at work, and in life. (Don’t confuse learning disabilities with ADHD.)
What is the difference between profound and severe?
As adjectives the difference between profound and severe is that profound is descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep while severe is severe, harsh.
Can a learning disability go away?
Can you be intelligent with a learning disability?
False! By definition, a learning disability can only be diagnosed in someone with average or above-average intelligence. Those with learning disabilities often have a high IQ — however, the LD is holding them back from demonstrating their true intelligence in daily achievements.
Is ADHD an intellectual or developmental disability?
Along with autism, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, vision impairment and others, ADHD is also considered a developmental disability.
Where is the Imagine Institute in Washington State?
The Imagine Institute is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Tukwila, WA, providing grassroots professional development opportunities to early care and education professionals throughout Washington State.
Who are the staff at the Imagine Institute?
The Imagine Institute staff speak Spanish, English and Somali and 50% of our employees have worked as licensed family child care providers or lead teachers in child care centers. Our goal is to elevate the conditions of this profession while maintaining its incredible diversity. We offer a range of courses tailored to family child care providers.
What are the stats for the Imagine Institute?
See Imagine’s stats below or visit OUR IMPACT PAGE HERE. The Imagine Institute helped open 230 child care facilities. We provided high quality instruction to 2,543 child care providers throughout Washington State. Imagine has provided training to 1,535 licensed family child care providers.
How many child care facilities has the Imagine Institute opened?
The Imagine Institute trains, educates, and is building a community of professionals and licensed providers to help with this child care crisis. See Imagine’s stats below or visit OUR IMPACT PAGE HERE. The Imagine Institute helped open 230 child care facilities.