ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety, The focus of our course is on the label-free approach. According to our authors, "research and best practice in special education is moving toward a focus on disability domains, rather than specific disabilities as listed in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), in exploring the teaching and learning relationship in the classroom" (pp. 40-41). The six disability domains are cognition, communication challenges, behavioral, emotional, sensory and physical, and medical challenges. The authors are not suggesting that teachers negate looking further into specific labeled disabilities such as Autism, ADHD, etc. Still, the focus is on these six domains and their characteristics that are featured in many disabilities. This really makes a lot of sense to me because the label tends to put the student in a box and that box of course has a lot of barriers that may not meet the individual student's needs. We really have to know our stude...