Transcript SPECIAL EDUCATION Dawn Sessa-White HFU EDU 509 August 4, 2003

SPECIAL EDUCATION
Dawn Sessa-White
[email protected]
HFU EDU 509
August 4, 2003
What do you need to know about special
education in Hamilton Township?
Video Welcome to Hamilton Township
Federal and State Laws
How to refer a child
Classification Process and Terms
Specific Learning Disability
IEP
Strategies for the classroom
Resources
History of IDEA
The Individuals with Disabilities in
Education Act was originally enacted in
1975 as PL 94-142
 Established the right of all eligible
school aged children and youth with
disabilities to receive a free,
appropriate, public education
Purpose of IDEA
 To ensure that the rights of children and youth
with disabilities and their parents are protected
 To ensure that children with disabilities have a
free, appropriate, public education available to
them, one which emphasizes special education and
related services designed to meet their unique
needs and prepare them for employment and
independent living
Who is Eligible?
 Must be a “child with a disability”
 Evaluated according to IDEA requirements
 Determined to fall into a specific disability
category as defined by IDEA/State
 Requires special education and related
services
When to refer a child
 after pre-referral intervention has been unsuccessful
 difficulties must impact educational performance
 must not be result of lack of exposure or experience
 with primary school aged children must be certain not due
to developmental issues
 when a student does not speak English, must have been
exposed to English instruction for a reasonable amount of
time
Referral Process
 Child may be referred by parent,
counselor, teacher, principal
 An evaluation plan meeting is
scheduled to determine if evaluation
is warranted and scope of evaluation
Classification Process
 If the evaluation is warranted it must
include at least 2 of the first 4
assessments
 Psychological Assessment
 Educational Assessment
 Social History
 Speech and Language Assessment
 Psychiatric Evaluation
 Neurological Evaluation
 Medical Evaluation
 Audiological Evaluation
Classification
 Evaluations completed within 90
calendar days
 Eligibility meeting includes one
member of child study team, parent,
regular education teacher, special
education teacher and student
 Program and IEP developed at this
meeting
Classification Terms
Auditorily Impaired
Autistic
Cognitively Impaired
Emotionally Disturbed
Socially Maladjusted
Other Health
Impaired
 Specific Learning
Disability
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 Preschool Disabled
 Orthepedically
Impaired
 Traumatic Brain
Injury
 Visually Impaired
 Multiply Disabled
What is …
Meeting each child’s unique needs
 Giving each child access to the
general curriculum
 Using classroom modifications and/or
accomodations to reach the curricular goals
 Modifying the curriculum
What is a specific learning
disability?
o Testing reveals a severe discrepancy
between intelligence level and
performance level
o Discrepancy must be at least 2
standard deviations
o Learning Disability vs Slow Learner
Example of SLD in the
Classroom
 Visual Motor
Integration
 When the image you
see is transmitted
through your brain to
your hand for you to
reproduce the same
image
Visual Motor Integration
Introduction
Beginning of
Demonstration
Demonstration Part 2
Individualized Education
Plan (IEP)
• Includes measurable annual goals and
short term objectives
• Special education/related services
and supplementary aids the child will
receive
• Read the IEP’s and know what each
child needs
Multisensory Strategies
in the Classroom
 Use ACE (Action, Color,
Exaggeration) to enhance lessons
 Simulation and role play add a
kinesthetic dimension to learning
 Rhyme, Rhythm and Music add an
auditory dimension to learning
 BE OPEN TO ACCOMODATIONS AND
MODIFICATIONS TO HELP YOUR SPECIAL
EDUCATION STUDENTS REACH THEIR GOALS
Resouces within Hamilton
Student
Child Study
Principal
Team
Speech/
Language
Pathologist
Teacher
Nurse
Special Ed
Special Ed
Teaching
Teacher
Parents Consultant