Special Education and the IEP

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Special Education and the IEP

• Yvette Perez
• Nov. 27, 2006

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Special Educationeese

• SPED Special Education
• LRE Least Restrictive Environment
• SWD Students with Disabilities
• IEP Individualized Education Plan
• ESE Exceptional Student Education
• EP Education Plan (Gifted)
• LEA Local Education Agency
• FAB/BIP Functional Assessment Behavior and
  Behavior Intervention Plan
• OT/PT/SLP Occupational Therapist / Physical
  Therapist / Speech Language Pathologist

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Essential Question

• What is an IEP and Why do I have to know about it?

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Students With Disabilities Need to be Educated in
the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

• This basically means that - to the greatest
  extent possible, SWD need to be educated with
  their non-disabled, general education peers at
  their home school.
• SWD usually access SPED programs on a full time
  basis when
• their cognitive ability is such that they need an
  alternative curriculum or
• their behavior is so severe that they are a
  danger to themselves or others.

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What the IEP Looks Like..

• Part I of the IEP is basic information about the
  student
• Home School vs. Assigned School
• Conference Types

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Never sign an IEP unless you were an active
participant in the meeting!
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Exceptionalities Served in MDCPS K-12

• Autistic
• Deaf/Hard of Hearing
• Traumatic Brain Injured
• Dual-Sensory Impaired
• Speech Impaired
• Visually Impaired
• Language Impaired
• Orthopedically Impaired

• Other Health Impaired (OHI)
• Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH)
• Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED)
• Specific Learning Disabilities (LD)
• Educable Mentally Handicapped (EMH)
• Trainable Mentally Handicapped (TMH)
• Emotionally Handicapped (EH)
• Developmentally Delayed (0-5)

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ESOL Information

• If a student is SPED and ESOL
• the ESOL information is kept on the IEP, not the
  ESOL folder

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Present Levels of Performance

• The Gen. Ed teachers has the most information
  here.
• A student can ALWAYS do something (it doesnt
  HAVE to be on grade level). Think of strengths
  as a starting point for instruction.

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Consultation vs. Collaboration

• Collaboration a teaching strategy in which a
  General Ed. teacher and a SPED teacher work
  together to provide instruction.
• Consultation a monitoring strategy used to
  support SPED students in the general education
  setting (the SPED teacher is available for
  support)

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How Will This Student Access Instruction?

• General Education Receives most of their
  instruction from the General Ed. Teacher or
  Inclusion/Co-teaching class
• Approximately 25 - 32.5 hours a week (in gen.
  ed)
• Resource Room Time spent in gen. ed. classroom
  and time spent in SPED classroom
• Approximately 15 - 25 hours a week (in gen. ed)
• Separate Class Most of the time spent in SPED

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Educational Services

• ? Tells you which setting instruction takes
  place (either General Ed. Classroom or SPED
  Classroom and/or Therapy
• ?? Instruction delivered by both the general and
  special education teachers

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Accommodations

• Accommodations are changes to HOW students are
  instructed and assessed

• Accommodations may be made to
• Instructional methods materials
• Scheduling and time demands
• Special communication systems

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Accommodations - continued

• Students with disabilities in Florida have the
  RIGHT to accommodations
• When deciding on which accommodations to use
  always ask yourself
• What is essential for all students to know or be
  able to do after this class, unit or lesson is
  over?
• Providing accommodations allows you to change
  the
• INPUT how a student receives information
• OUTPUT how a student demonstrates mastery of a
  concept
• RATE how fast/slow a student does their work
• SUPPORT how independent a student is asked to
  be

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What Can You Do? Some Examples

• Take exams or do work independently
• Allow students to write on material
• Have test/assignments read aloud
• Allow student to answer orally
• Visual schedules
• Have students paraphrase to check for
  understanding
• Preferential seating
• Use of calculator for routine computation tasks
  (not instead of learning a skill)
• Shortened assignments
• Extended time to complete assignments
• Redirection
• Raised lined paper

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Your Students Your Classroom

• Take the time to learn about your students
  unique needs and accommodations you can provide.
• Accommodations. Assisting Students with
  Disabilities. A Guide for Educators. Publication
  available through the Bureau of Instructional
  Support and Community Services
• http//www.firn.edu/doe/commhome/
• Information on Learning Disabilities and ADHD/ADD
• http//www.ldonline.com
• Get a glimpse of what it is like to have a
  disability http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodm
  inds