Academic or Functional Life Skills? Using Behaviors Associated with Happiness to Guide Instruction for Students with Profound/Multiple Disabilities

Table 1

Characteristics of students.

Student	Age	Ethnicity	Disability label	Developmental level; Battelle Developmental Inventory [46]	Verbal	Medical diagnosis
1	16	Caucasian	Profound multiple disabilities	1 year, 8 months	No	Anoxic encephalopathy, visually impaired, spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, scoliosis, seizure disorder, and gastrostomy
2	13	African-American	Profound multiple disabilities	1 year, 1 month	No	Anoxic brain injury, visually impaired, cerebral palsy, scoliosis, seizure disorder, tracheal malacia, and gastrostomy
3	20	Caucasian	Profound multiple disabilities	1 year, 4 months	No	Cerebral palsy, visual impairment, hearing impairment, scoliosis, seizure disorder, and gastrostomy
4	20	African-American	Profound multiple disabilities	1 year, 6 months	No	Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, visually impaired, spastic cerebral palsy, scoliosis, seizure disorder, and gastrostomy