Students individualized education program (IEP)
The term IEP is used to refer to the special program or plan that is created with a specific student in mind due to the disability that they have in class which prevents them to learn as fast or with ease as the others in the class. In this instance, the student has special learning disability and needs to be helped through the IEP in order to get an environment that is conducive for his learning and a team that is assistive as much as possible. The student has difficulty in reading skills and also has difficulty in decoding, comprehension and fluency. These predispose him to be socially removed from peers and there is need to have IEP that would help him in the subjects in class and the social life too.
The seven components of the IEP to be use for the student with special earning disability are; the present level of academic achievement, which will help guide the drafting of the IEP in line with the expected performance levels against the actual achievement. The second component is the annual goals which must be measurable plus the benchmarks or the short-term objectives to these annual goals. The third aspect is the extent to which...
The fourth is the services that are necessary to enable the student with the learning disability benefit from education experience. These services may involve speech pathology, counselling, physical and occupational therapy among other services. The fifth aspect is the expected date of commencement of the participation in the IEP. The sixth aspect is the program testing modification which will help the IEP team decide whether the student needs accommodation in the district testing or any other. The last component is the statement on the length of the duration and how the assessment of the student will be measured.
The planning team will be made up of the parents, the physical therapist, the assistant principal of the school, his class teacher, special education resource teacher and a counsellor. This team will work on an IEP that will be suitable for the students and offer least restrictive environment (LRE). LRE is one of the principles that guide the education of students with disabilities and requires that the students with learning disabilities…
