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Education > K-12
Transition Planning Through K-12: Preparing Your Child for School Changes
Your child's IEP follows them from...school to school. That's the law. The new school...implement it. But here's what also happens:...here." A one-on-one aide becomes a shared para....become "as needed, at teacher discretion." Extended...building, multiple teachers instead of one homeroom...instead of one homeroom teacher, a bell schedule, lockers,...
Global Insights > Education
What U.S. Parents Can Learn from How Other Countries Educate Students with Disabilities
...needs a full-time aide or just "check-ins,"...just "check-ins," it's easy to assume this...negotiates their child's education this way....which partS of the U.S. system are policy...equivalentS in the way U.S. parents recognize...different. Every teacher completes disability...Schools employ resource teachers who float between...real-time Support. What U.S. parents fight for...
Global Insights > Advocacy
Teaching Your Child to Self-Advocate: Age-by-Age Strategies from Elementary Through High School
...IEP meeting, but they can tell their teacher they need a sensory break. A ten-year-old...accommodations, but they can explain to a lunch aide why they sit at the end of the table....self-advocacy isn't a single handoff. It's a gradual transfer of skills that happens...back as your child steps forward. Here's what that progression looks like at...
Legal > Advocacy
Why I Filed a Child Abuse Report
...Report Against a Special Ed Aide By Dorie Johnson, as...stacie Chan (Editor's Note: Dorie Johnson was...from a special education teacher's aide. She filed an abuse...special education teacher's aide. She filed an abuse...special education teacher's aide. She filed an abuse report...the special education teachers were mean. I knew they...
Education > Other
Inclusive Education for Students with Special Needs
...Special education teachers work together...general education teachers Why is Inclusive...education also teaches students without...students and teachers. Some important...Training for teachers on inclusive...education More teachers and aides to...teachers and aides to help in the...They can help teachers understand a...understand a student's...
Education > Special Education
Empowering Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Classrooms
...In an inclusive classroom, teachers adapt lessons to meet the...learn acceptance and kindness Teachers can meet the needs of all...This includes: Training for teachers on how to teach students with...diverse needs Special education teachers and aides to provide extra...Special education teachers and aides to provide extra support...
Education > K-12
The Special Education Evaluation Process: What Parents Need to Know
...education evaluation isn't one test. It's a collection of assessments designed...school psychologist, special education teacher, and sometimes a speech therapist, occupational...chooses assessments based on your child's suspected needs. A child referred for...concerns. The team is trying to map what's happening, not just confirm what you...
Education > Early Intervention
Parent Coaching in Early Intervention: How You Become Your Child's Best Teacher
...with your child. Instead, she's asking you to play with him while...to what happens at a doctor's appointment: the professional...model in which the therapist teaches you how to support your child's...you how to support your child's development during everyday routines....the therapist doing less. It's the therapist multiplying her...
Education > Accommodations
Sensory Accommodations Checklist: What to Request for Autism, ADHD, and SPD
...processing challenges." The teacher's noticed they struggle...challenges." The teacher's noticed they struggle with...interpreted differently by every teacher and often forgotten by...compression, documented in teacher notes" is clear, actionable,...can adapt to your child's profile. Use it to build...be kept at the student's desk for immediate use...
Education > Accommodations
What to Do When Your Child's Teacher Isn't Implementing IEP Accommodations
...daily in the classroom. Teachers sometimes don't receive...document, misunderstand what's required, or lack the...for Civil Rights. Here's how to move through...escalating, confirm what's happening. Your child's...happening. Your child's report may be accurate,...be accurate, but it's also possible they didn't...questions. Not "Is your teacher giving you extra time?"...
Special Needs > Multiple Sclerosis
School Accommodations for Children with Multiple Sclerosis
Your child's MS symptoms don't...crawl while the teacher moves on. These...documented in your child's medical records....records. But to a teacher who has never worked...When your child's symptoms are invisible,...invisible, the school's default assumption...the condition. It's not tiredness that...with a good night's sleep. It's a neurological...night's sleep. It's a neurological symptom...
Global Insights > Education
Inside Inclusive Classrooms: What Co-Teaching Models Actually Look Like
Your child's IEP says...thing. It's six distinct...whether it's being used...your child's placement...practices train teachers in all six,...space, and teacher rapport....Assist. One teacher leads instruction....works: Both teachers planned the...assisting teacher knows which...view one teacher as "the helper."...education teacher sits in the...co-teaching; it's an adult...education teacher intervenes...