District 75: High SchoolSpecial Needs Students

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District 75 High School-Special Needs Students
Dorota Koczewska Ursula Endara
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Students with disabilities educated in NYC public
schools

• 140,649 students
• Elementary level 79,334
• Middle school 27,754
• High school 33,561
• Data collected from Hehir, T., Figueroa, R.,
  Gamm. S., Katzman, L.I., Gruner, A., Karger, J.,
  Hernandez, J. Comprehensive Management Review
  and Evaluation of Special Education Submitted to
  the NYCDOE September 20, 2005.

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Students with autism educated in NYC public
schools

• 3628140,689 (2½ ) students are classified as
  having autism
• About 64 of students (2323) with autism are in
  general education classes for some part of the
  day
• 394 students spend 80 of the day in general
  education classes
• 7 students spend 40-80 of the day in general
  education classes
• 1922 students spend less than 20 of the day in
  general education classes
• 1305 students in self contained classes

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An overview of District 75

• Serves approximately 23,000 students
• Students exhibit moderate to severe disabilities

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More than 350 District 75 organizations

• Bronx
• Brooklyn
• Manhattan
• Queens
• Staten Island
• Syosset

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Classifications of disabilities within District 75

• Autism
• Blindness visual impairment
• Deafness hearing impairment
• Emotional disturbance
• Mental retardation
• Multiple disabilities
• Orthopedic impairments
• Other health impairments
• Speech language impairment
• Traumatic Brain Injury

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Emotional Disturbance

• Emotional disturbance ... is defined by the
  Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
  (IDEA) as "a condition exhibiting one or more of
  the following characteristics over a long period
  of time and to a marked degree that adversely
  affects a child's educational performance
• An inability to learn that cannot be explained by
  intellectual, sensory, or health factors
• An inability to build or maintain satisfactory
  interpersonal relationships with peers and
  teachers
• Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under
  normal circumstances
• A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or
  depression and
• A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears
  associated with personal or school problems."
• Students with emotional and/or behavioral
  disabilities may exhibit
• Hyperactivity (short attention span,
  impulsiveness)
• Aggression/self-injurious behavior (acting out,
  fighting)
• Withdrawal (failure to initiate interaction with
  others retreat from exchanges of social
  interaction, excessive fear or anxiety)
• Immaturity (inappropriate crying, temper
  tantrums, poor coping skills) and
• Learning difficulties (academically performing
  below grade level).
• grade level).

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District 75 inclusive sites

• Approximately 155 inclusion sites in
• Elementary schools
• Middle schools
• High Schools

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Enrollment of District 75 students in inclusive
sites

• 1646 students included in regional
  schools/colleges
• 29.6 (488) students have autism
• Statistics provided by D75 Office of Data
  Management June, 2006

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Student staff ratios

• 1211
• 811
• 611
• 1214

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Types of Related Services

• Counseling
• Hearing Educational Services
• Occupational therapy (OT)
• Orientation and Mobility Instruction
• Physical Therapy
• School Health Services
• Speech and Language Services
• Vision Education Services
• Paraprofessional

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Practices and Systems for School-wide Positive
Behavior Support

• Practices (What)
• Select Define expectations
• Teach expectations
• Monitor expected behavior
• Acknowledge expected behavior
• Correct behavioral errors (continuum of
  consequences)
• Use information for decision-making

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IEPs

• Continue to provide the student with access to
  the general education curriculum
• Meet the students other educational needs that
  result from the students disability
• Incorporate ongoing and regular assessment and
  review of service effectiveness

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High School Diplomas

• Regents Diploma (44 credits a score of 65 or
  higher)
• Local Diploma
• Regents Competency Test (RCT)
• Safety Net for students with disabilities
  entering 9th grade by 2010 RCT can be
  administered before or after the Regents
  examination, but students must take the required
  Regents examination in order to earn the local
  diploma
• Low-pass at least 55 on the five required
  Regents exams
• High School Individualized Education Program
  Diploma (IEP) students attains age of 21 and
  has achieved the educational goals based on the
  appropriate level of learning standards on
  his/hers IEP

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Testing Modifications

• Flexibility in Setting
• Flexibility in Scheduling/Timing
• Calculator usage
• Regence Competency Test in Mathematics
• Students with disabilities may use calculators
  when taking this test only if the use of theses
  devices is included as a testing accommodation in
  the students IEP or 504 Plan.
• Method of Presentation
• Method of Response

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Sold Out
Alicia Keys new album As I Am is moving up the
charts to the top 20. The manager of FYE expects
to sell a lot of copies. The store has limited
space so not all of the copies can be put on the
display. On Monday morning the manager of FYE
store stocked a display with 40 copies of the As
I Am CD. A number of copies were sold by the end
of the day. On Tuesday morning the manager
re-stocked the shelf from the copies in the back
of the store. She doubled the amount that was
left in the display. At the end of the day she
sold the exact same number of copies as on
Monday. On Wednesday morning the manager decided
to triple the number of copies that were left on
Tuesday night. She sold the same amount of copies
on Wednesday as she had on each of the previous
days. At the end of the day the display case was
empty. How many CDs of As I Am did FYE sell each
day?
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How could we solve this?
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Reference

• Robert E. March, Ph.D. Kimberli Breen, MS, CAS
• www.successfulschools.org
• http//www.vesid.nysed.gov/specialed/publications/
  policy/testacce.txt
• Special Education Services - Board of Education
  of the City of New York
• Power Point. Presented by Cathy Rikhey