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Children with Special Needs
presented by Merri Parmley
June 9, 2005

Overview of exceptional youth

Sharing opinions and attitudes - Flip Chart Walk
- What disabilities make a child eligible for special education?
- What are your primary concerns and questions about special education?
- How will your class be different with special education needs children participating?
- How can you modify or accommodate for student in your class?
- What support systems do you have for special education students?
- What support systems do the special needs students have?
Eligibility criteria
- Everyone has a disability. What is yours? What is mine? What accommodations do you make for yourself?

List of helpful Acronyms

Role of teacher working with exceptional youth

Overview of enrolling student in special education (rule out disability due to language, sociological, or environmental barriers)
Overview in dismissing a child from services
Least Restricted Environment (ARD – IEP and modifications and accommodations before placement)
Special Education continuum of services
Accommodations vs. Modifications
Discipline – 10 day rule and Behavior Management Plans (BMP)

Helpful Resources

Who do you go to for help?
Book resources
Web sites???
Handouts vs. Computer Copy

Steven Covey – Everybody should strive to have a win-win situation. The child wins and gets what they need; you win and you get what you want. For example the child passes objectives/course test; you've succeeded in teaching a child.

Eligibility

(1) Autism (AU) - Students with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) are included under this category

(2) Deaf-blindness

(3) Auditory impairment (AI)

(4) Emotional disturbance (ED)

(5) Mental retardation (MR)

(6) Multiple disabilities – meets the following conditions:

The student's disability is expected to continue indefinitely; and the disabilities severely impair performance in two or more of the following areas:

• Psychomotor skills;

• Self-care skills;

• Communication;

• Social and emotional development; or

• Cognition.

(7) Orthopedic impairment

(8) Other health impairment (OHI) - Students with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are included under this category.

(9) Learning disability (LD) - A severe discrepancy exists when the student's assessed intellectual ability is above the mentally retarded range, but the student's assessed educational achievement in areas specified is more than one standard deviation below the student's intellectual ability.

(10) Speech impairment - A student with a speech and/or language impairment

(11) Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

(12) Visual impairment (VI)

(13) Noncategorical - A student between the ages of 3-5 who is evaluated as having mental retardation, emotional disturbance, a specific learning disability, or autism may be described as noncategorical early childhood (NCEC).

Acronyms

Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committee	Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Assistive technology device (ATD)	Least restrictive environment (LRE)
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI)	Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP)
English as a Second Language (ESL)	Limited English Proficient (LEP)
Extended school year (ESY)	Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Individual Transition Plan (ITP) - for a student who is at least 14 years Individualized Education Program (IEP)	Texas Youth Commission (TYC)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Enrolling Students into Special Education

Children with disabilities – 10% (1995)
Referral
Establish language proficiency
Comprehensive health screening
Parent permission obtained for testing
Evaluation – see below for Stanford-Binet interpretations of scores
- 132 and above – very superior
- 111-120 – high average
- 89-110 – average
- 79-88 – low average
- 68-78 – slow learner
- 67 and below – mentally retarded
Determination of needs (ARD) – Must be done within 90 calendar days of initial referral.
Student placement
Continuous assessment (at least every 3 years)

Continuum of Services

Mainstream – Peer Tutor - Support Facilitation – Co-Teaching – CMC – Therapy - Resource Room – Self-Contained – Homebound/Residential Care

Modifications and Accommodations

Accommodations are changing your teaching style; modifications are changing TEKs.

• Everyone needs praise and feedback
• Welcome students at the door
• Allow for a ‘check-in' or share time during every class
• Acknowledge effort
• Display work
• Use contracts for behavior - Avoid power struggles
• Use a token system or reward system – stay away from punishments
• CALL PARENTS – keep communication log for difficult students
• Have students call their parents
• Ask direct vs. open-ended questions depending on complexity
• Rephrase your lesson
• Have students rephrase concepts
• Limit steps in directions (2)
• Make sure you have the student's attention
• Do not tell people what to do - show them!
• Use demonstrations or examples
• Have fun!!!!!!!!!
• Nerf Basketball, Hangman Vocabulary, Points-points-points, Vocabulary Charades, Jeopardy, Around the World (ball), Dry Erase Boards
• Provide time-out areas within your room that students choose to take.
• Stress relief toys
• Escape pass
• Assign leadership roles
• Highlight key words
• Shorten tests by highlighting ‘extra credit'
• Preview the language of the test
• Make sure 70% of the test can be mastered by all students
• Shorten assignments by having students due the first section or odds/evens
• Read assignments and tests
• Provide study guides
• Allow students to make test corrections – take an average
• Peer tutoring
• Limit group size during cooperative tasks
• Allow students to work on the board for visual reinforcement
• Explain the purpose of the lesson
• Allow for student's to evaluate their work ethic
• Teach Character traits – extra points, free homework pass
• Allow student to keep notebook in class

Merri's Library of Links

Modified May 2005

Special Education

Special Education – Life Skills - http://www.workshopsinc.com/manual/

Special education Resources for Teachers http://www.gigglepotz.com/speced.htm

Special Education Lesson Plans http://www.kodak.com/cluster/global/en/consumer/education/lessonPlans/indices/specialEducation.shtml

http://www.edbydesign.com

Teachers Helping Teachers - http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/SpecialEducation.html

Library for Special Education - http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/special-ed.html

Resources for teachers, librarians, parents, and students. http://www.bigchalk.com

Children and Adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity Disorder - www.chadd.org

Office of Special Education - http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/

Students and Parents

Discovery School for Students - http://school.discovery.com/students/

Great Sites: Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them (compiled by the American Library Association) - http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/

Resources for teachers, librarians, parents, and students. - http://www.bigchalk.com

Kids' Activities - http://www.edbydesign.com/kidsact.html , amandaquick@nisd.net

Phonics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/4678/frame1publish.html

http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-b/index/play.htm

Children's stories
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/

http://www.billybear4kids.com/story/books.htm

http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108b.html

http://pbskids.org/clifford/stories/index.html
http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html

a bit older

http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/

http://www.americanfolklore.net/

(Beatrix Potter's Classics)

http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm

Beginning readers:

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f

http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html

Interactive games to learn reading and math

http://www.mathgoodies.com/puzzles2004/

http://www.vocabulary.com/

http://www.kidsdomain.com/games/read2.html

http://directory.google.com/Top/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/English/

http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/sbeck/interactive_curriculum_sites.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/

http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/vocabulary/

http://www.syvum.com/online/games.html

http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/sbeck/interactive_curriculum_sites.htm

http://www.globalclassroom.org/ecell00/javamath.html

http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/English/

http://www.mathgoodies.com/puzzles2004/

http://www.mathgoodies.com/

http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/toc_vol8.html

http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html

Consumer Math

http://www.cdr.state.tx.us/RealityCheck/

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/select_occupation.asp?stfips=&next=occ_rep

TAKs and TEKs materials to down load for free!!

http://www.brainchild.com/gen/usmap.asp

http://www.tenet.edu/teks/math/clarifying/index.html

http://www.tenet.edu/teks/math/othertks/

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/release/taks/index.html

Graphic Organizers

http://www.graphic.org/

Bullying

http://www.bullying.co.uk/

History Time lines

http://americanhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Farcher2000.tripod.com%2F1900.html

http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinetexasind.htm

Jeopardy for all grade levels

http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm

Teachers

ESL Resources for Teaching English as a Second Language

http://www.gigglepotz.com/esl.htm

http://www.everythingesl.net/

Library for Teachers

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/teacher.html

Movies for Learning (You can only view 2 movies a day.)

http://www.brainpop.com/

Discovery School for Teachers (creates puzzles, lesson plans, etc. )

http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html

www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide

Blue Web'n is an online library of 1200+ internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Web Quest Page

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/

Lesson Plans

http://www.gigglepotz.com/curriculum.htm

http://teachers.net/library/

http://www.yk.psu.edu/~mer7/soslib.html#plans

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MRA.htm

http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html

http://lucas.tea.state.tx.us/PAI/TTB/TEKS/select_lesson_plan/1,3500,26,00.html (from TEA)

Math Lessons

http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/

Early Reading

http://www.tampareads.com/index.htm

Daily Quotes

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_back_to_school_quotes.shtml

Lesson plans, technology in the classroom (including virtual fieldtrips, web quests), curriculum, administrative issues, and school issues.

http://www.education-world.com

http://www.midgefrazel.net

http://www.edbydesign.com

Web Sites for teachers

http://sitesforteachers.com

http://lucas.tea.state.tx.us/PAI/TTB/1,3498,20,00.html (site from TEA)

Adventures of Cyberbee - Teaching Students about Technology

http://www.cyberbee.com

Teacher Technology Tools

http://4teachers.org

Great Sites: Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them (compiled by the American Library Association)

http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/

Teacher Certification

http://www.texes.nesinc.com

http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/

example lesson plans

http://www.vickiwright.com/wq/

http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/formats/webquests/summer99/northside/juvcrime/default.html