Foundation for Educating Students with Special Needs
This assistance beyond academic instruction enables students to benefit from special education.
What are related services?
School psychologists, counselors, speech/language therapists, social workers, administrators, paraprofessionals, physical/occupational therapists, adaptive physical educator, nurse, bilingual special educator, mobility specialist, sign language interpreter, outside agency professional, and advocates.
What are Related Service Providers and Other Specialists?
In Chapter 1 of 'The Educators Handbook for Inclusive Education Practices' by Julie Causton and Chelsea Tracy-Bronson, these were implemented for Matthew focused on his sense of belonging, developed a strong relationship with him, and provided him with what he needed.
What are positive behavior supports?
Before this year, students with disabilities did not have the legal right to attend school.
What is 1975?
Individualized instruction designed to meet the needs of certain students.
What is special education?
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unlawful under the 14th Amendment to discriminate arbitrarily against any group of people in this court case.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education?
This document is used to decide the best placement for a student with an identified disability and serves as a blueprint for a students education. Components of this document include: present level of performance, annual sort/long-term objectives, extent of participation in general education, services and modifications, BIP, date when services began, strategies for evaluation, and a transition plan.
What is an Individualized Education Program?
This is a way to ensure that all students can be successful through universal design, differentiation and creating inclusive lessons.
What is designing purposeful academic learning experiences?
Students with disabilities, students with challenging behavior, race and ethnicity, english language learners, at risk learners, struggling readers, students with limited or no verbal communication, families with low socioeconomic status, lgbtq, harassed or bullied students.
Who are students that should feel a sense of belonging?
1. A student is suspected of having a disability and needing a service.
2. Eligibility is decided.
3. IEP meeting is scheduled.
4. IEP is written during the meeting.
5. Services are provided.
6. Progress is measured and reported to parents.
7. IEP is reviewed.
8. Student is reevaluated.
What is the referral process?
Learning disability, Speech or Language Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Emotional Disturbance, Autism, Hearing Impairment, Visual Impairment, Deaf-Blindness, Orthopedic Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Other Health Impairment, Multiple Disabilities and Developmental Delay.
What are the 13 disabilities that negatively affect a students educational performance making them eligible for special education services under IDEA?
The setting where students can succeed that is most like the setting for other students. This is most likely the general education classroom for more than 80% of the day. Other setting include resource programs, separate classes, separate classes or schools, residential facilities, and home/hospital settings.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
As we've read about in 'The Educators Handbook for Inclusive Education Practices' by Julie Causton and Chelsea Tracy-Bronson, the relationship between the General and Special Education Teacher is crucial for the success of a student with special needs. As a special education teacher, how can we start to forge a relationship and break barriers with a general education teacher that is "stuck in the ways", making it difficult to implement the necessary modifications and environment for our students?
Double Jeopardy "Open Ended Question #1"
A weekly time set aside for general and special education teachers to brainstorm, plan, and design upcoming units and lessons.
What is co-planning?
This can lead to stereotyping by causing a teacher to see certain students in one way.
What are Disability labels?
What are inclusive practices?
These professionals play an important role in special education. They may make an initial identification of a student who may need special services or that may have a disability. They also implement different modifications and plans from a students IEP into their classroom and lesson plans.
What is a General Education Teacher?
Seeing students as a learner with multiple strengths, intelligences and capabilities.
What is shifting your thinking about your students with disabilities to focus more on their strengths as a learner?
Students do not leave to learn, natural proportions, team teaching, community and culture, and differentiation.
What are indicators of Inclusive Classrooms?
As special educators and advocates for our students, how can we use our students labels to promote their strengths in the eyes of peers and other teachers instead of weaknesses?
Double Jeopardy "Open Ended Question #2"
Historical and political context, current civil rights legislation, civil rights movement, parent and professional advocacy, precedent-setting court cases, current general education legislation.
What are Influences on Current Special Education Practices?
This is a team of parents, educators and other professionals that assume responsibility for making educational decisions for a student that has been identified as having unmet needs and is not responding to interventions. This team follows steps, procedures and assessments before deciding if a student needs special education.
What is the multidisciplinary team (MDT)?
This model suggests that the classroom, others’ expectations, and available supports and resources actually construct or cause disability.
What is the Social Model of Disability?
This guides us in the creation of school environments where all students feel welcomed, socially fulfilled and academically challenged.
What is inclusive education?
This is used to classify and think about the problems that developing children may encounter.
What are disability categories?