Special Education Process
Understanding Strengths and Challenges of Students
Effects of Children In Poverty/Immigrants
Creating Collaborative Relationships
Fostering Transitions, Self-Determination, Acceptance, and Friendships
100
Gather information Identify goals Select and Implement Interventions Collect evidence to assess the effectiveness of the interventions
What is the four steps to the referral process?
100
Learning disabilities Mild emotional/behavioral disorders Attention deficit disorders Speech and language disorders
What are students with high incidence disabilities?
100
Federal law guaranteeing homeless children the right to a free, appropriate public education in a mainstream school environment and seeks to eliminate barriers to their school attendance.
What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
100
This teaching strategy incourages teachers to share responsibility and accountability for planning, differentiating, and delivering instruction, evaluating, grading, and disciplining students
What is coteaching?
100
1. Ecological assessment 2. Intervention and Preparation 3. Generalization to the new setting 4. Evaluation in the new environment
What are Transenvironmental Programming?
200
Universal screening Evidence-based curricula and interventions Progress monitoring to assess students’ response to interventions Student identification Tiered instruction
What are Response to Intervention components?
200
Make up about 5% of total school population Slightly more than 50% of students in special ed have LD Can have average or above average intelligence
What are students with Learning Disabilities?
200
Avoid activities that require students to pay and raise monies to participate or provide no-cost options Consider using school resources to address students’ economic needs Make curriculum relevant to students by teaching about issues of class, poverty, antipoverty work, etc. Collaborate and communicate with others to offer a range of integrated, comprehension services Understand students may have limited support for homework assignments that require money; offer help & alternatives.
What are strategies to address economic differences?
200
Working together to problem solve and implement mutually agreed-on solutions to prevent and address learning and behavioral difficulties and to coordinate instructional programs for all students.
What is collaborative consultation?
200
Involves analyzing critical features of the learning environment and the key skills that affect student academic, behavioral and social performance
What is Ecological Assessment?
300
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a person with a disability
What are assistive technology device considerations?
300
Experience difficulties understanding & remembering info that is presented visually, completing novel and complex tasks, establishing priorities, identifying main ideas, taking notes, & organizing and connecting their written products.
What are nonverbal learning disabilities?
300
Racial tension & rejection from peers Fear from authority figures Reluctant to make friends with others, to seek help, and to gain recognition in programs
What are students who are immigrant?
300
Tends to focus more on helping educators learn about and implement instructional practices effectively, fostering student learning
What is coaching?
300
Transfer of training so students use the skills you have taught them independently in their inclusive classrooms Transfer of skills does not happen spontaneously; must have a systematic plan to promote it. Use adult and peer models to demonstrate it being used in different settings/conditions
What is generalization?
400
Designed to improve the students’ academic and functional achievement and to address postsecondary goals in training, education, employment, community participation, and independent living skills
What are transition services?
400
Inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors Inability to build or maintain good relationships with peers & teachers Inappropriate behaviors or feelings under normal circumstances A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression Tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems
What are students with emotional and behavioral disorders?
400
Have encountered circumstances which caused them to have limited, erratic, or nonexistent access to schooling
What are Students With Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE)
400
Is guaranteed under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and IDEA
What is confidentiality?
400
Goals and methods tailored to individual students prepare them for a successful transition to adult living, including living, working and socializing in their communities.
What is functional curriculum?
500
Family members of the child General ed teacher Special ed teacher School district representative Individual who can interpret the implications of assessment results Other individuals selected by family or school because of special expertise The student, when appropriate
What are members of the Multidisciplinary Team?
500
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment that adversely affects educational performance.
What are students with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)?
500
All undocumented students have the same right as U.S. citizens to attend public schools Cannot be prevented from attending school based on their undocumented status, nor can they treat these students in a different way when identifying their residency. School personnel cannot intimidate or threaten students and their families based on their immigration status Schools may not inquire about immigration status, ask for Social Security numbers, or share information about their status with outside agencies without the family's permission
What are Educational Rights of Students Who Are Immigrants
500
Some may view teachers so highly that they will not disagree with you, interfere in their child’s education, or ask questions Examine your own viewpoints about cultural backgrounds & diversity
What are cultural factors?
500
Students placed in community settings that offer them opportunities to learn a range of functional skills, including community-related skills, vocational skills, domestic skills, & functional academic skills.
What is community based learning?
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