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Early Childhood
As Service Coordinator, my role is to explain the IFSP and the IEP and serve as liaison with other people and agencies who are part of the child's plan. The screening process looks at cognitive, physical, emotional, social, and communication development to identify strengths and weaknesses upon which the plans can be put together. Parents' questions could include time frame for the program, expected results, prognosis for success in school, and alternatives if the program does not seem to be producing desired results.
In Massachusetts, two agencies that assist children with developmental delays and their families are the Department of Education and the Head Start Program. The Head Start Program assists with early detection and diagnosis; the Department of Education has a tiered support system once children reach school age. Diagnostic testing includes observation, interviewing, and drawn responses. In speaking with parents, it is wise to show results...
Observation, for example, could be conducted by the Service Coordinator, a social worker, and a child psychologist, all of whom have training in the detection of developmental delays.
Diagnostic testing helps in the planning of education programs because it looks at what the child can already do, and what gaps remain. The goals for the education plans must be realistic in terms of time frame and achievability by the student.
CE 320 Unit 8
By understanding working memory, the teacher can address a child's strengths. If a child has poor auditory skills, for example, visual cues would be helpful. This same child would benefit from getting just small chunks of information at a time, rather than a string of instructions, to allow time for processing.
Students with autism spectrum disorders have difficulty with abstract concepts. They…
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 1990, this act was updated and reformed as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which itself was reformed in 1997. At each step, the goal was to make education more equitable and more accessible to
In their study, "Thinking of Inclusion for All Special Needs Students: Better Think Again," Rasch and his colleagues (1994) report that, "The political argument in favor of inclusion is based on the assumption that the civil rights of students, as outlined in the 1954 decision handed down in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down the concept of 'separate but equal,' can also be construed as applying to special
More importantly, our appreciative and participatory stance with our co-researchers has allowed us to witness and learn about the cutting edge of leadership work in such a way that is and feels qualitatively different from other research traditions we have used in the past, because it is built on valuing. Even though it is challenging at times (Ospina et al. 2002), our inquiry space is enhanced by our collaboration
special education from the standpoint of the students' parents. The writer explores the opinions on the accessibility and quality of special education afforded their children in Massachusetts. The writer examines the opinions through the use of research project that is proposed here. There were eight sources used to complete this paper. For the last four decades the nation has been steadily working to improve the special education system within its
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