The provider can't attend the meeting, what is the form the parents should sign prior to the meeting?
Notice of team member excusal
How often should service logs be updated?
Service logs should be updated regularly to prevent long hours of catching up!
What legal document should be acknowledged as received by the parent at the beginning of the meeting?
What is Notice of Procedural Safeguards
Name the schedule of reinforcement that gives the student praise every time they are complying with a request
What is Frequent
What does BER stand for?
Behavior Emergency Report
Name two areas where parent concerns are documented.
eligibility page and the notes page
Can I add SAI minutes for the entire week into 1 entry?
NO............there must be an entry for each day that you worked with the student.
My parent speaks Mixteco, what should I do?
Refer to the SPED Newsletter for the link to request a Mixteco interpreter.
In most cases, when you approach or need to make contact, how do you protect your thumbs?
By using a closed hand, aka, barbie hands or queens wave.
Where do I look to make sure that all members of the team are invited to the IEP?
Under Providers in the Student Profile or referring to the previous IEP.
Which service should be at the top of 7A - special education and related services?
The service that is addressing the disability.
The student has a 1:1, who is responsible for entering the service logs?
The Case Manager!
The parent was a no-show at the IEP meeting, but the rest of the team is present, can we hold the meeting without the parent?
No, we never want to hold a meeting without a parent.
Name 2 characteristics of effective reinforcement.
Immediate, distinct, descriptive, preferred, varied.
My student has MCBH services, do they need to attend the IEP?
Yes, anyone who provides a service must attend the IEP.
A student has 4 areas of need checked on their eligibility page, how many goals should be developed?
At least 1 goal for each area of need
How often do we send home an IEP progress report to the parent?
At the end of each grading period.
Trimesterly for K-5 and quarterly 6-8.
When is it appropriate to use the IEP 6B Notice of Meeting continued form?
When the present meeting isn't finished and you need to hold a part 2.
Give an example of a situation that would require an emergency medical release from a hold.
The person has difficulty breathing, nausea, and vomiting. The person is unresponsive or unconscious.
Where can I find information on my student's most recent ELPAC scores
ELPAC scores a listed under Reports as State Test Scores.
Annual IEP: Student meets a goal in reading, do I still need to write a goal?
YES! You will continue to write goals until that area is no longer a need (based on the assessment presented at the triannual)
On the Statewide Assessments form, is read aloud and text to speech basically the same thing?
Nope. If you select read-aloud you are saying that the student cannot access the test through the use of headphones and you will need to read the entire test to them
The parent signed the Notice of Meeting by hand but all other signatures were electronic. What should I do?
Upload the Notice of meeting to SIRAS. Print out the entire IEP, single sided, paperclipped, and send everything to Claudia.
Name the three criteria for use of physical management
There must be imminent risk of serious harm to the agitated person or someone else.
There must be no other way to prevent harm without intervening.
The risk of not intervening is greater than the risk of intervening.
The annual IEP is due on 1/4/2024. Is there an extension (pause in timeline) because we are on winter break?
NO! The timeline does not pause, we still need to adhere to the due date.
The timeline will only pause for an initial evaluation because there is no annual/reevaluation due date and ONLY if the break was in excess of 5 days.