Special Ed Procedures

General education teachers

Has most detailed knowledge of day to day strengths and weaknesses

Often is the first to bring to attention a student with special needs

Special Ed Teachers

Responsible for coordinating services children receives

Subtopic

School Psychologists

Determines a students intellectual, academic, social, emotional, and behavioral functioning

Design strategies to address the problem.

How do we decide if a need might be a disability?

Is there a chronic pattern?

Are the needs becoming more serious as time passes?

Is their behavior significantly different than that of other classmates?

What can you do?

Contact Parents

Contact colleagues

Document the need

evaluate your responses to the student

Response Intervention

Data is the basis for making decisions about students' functioning withing the curriculum.

Calls for the systematic use of intensive, research based interventions

Intervention Team

Consists of general education teacher, special services personnel, and an administrator.

Consider strategies for assisting the student

IEP

Includes detailed planning of the student's education and related services

Outlines all special education services the student is to receive

Present level of performance

Annual goals and short term objectives

Extent of participation

Modifications needed

Behavior intervention plan

Strategies for evaluation

Transition plan

Monitoring Special Education Services

Annual Reviews

Three Year Evaluations

Progress Reports

Due Process

Student placement and educational environment

Regular Classroom

Resource room

Separate Classes

Separate Schools

Residential facilities

Home and hospital settings

Types of Law that Impact Special Education

Statutory

Laws made by congress

Regulatory

Regulations added to statutory laws

Case

legal ruling the results of lawsuits

Important Acts and Court Cases

Education of all Handicapped Children Act

IDEA

PARC v Pennsylvania

Due Process

Mills V Board of Education

IDEA, FAPE

Rowley V BOE

FAPE

Daniel RR V Texas BOE

LRE