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Steps of the IEP process during a meeting are the following
Introductions with titles
Procedural safeguards
Review of Psych
Determine an eligibility
Sign a form for eligibilty/ineligibility
If eligible write an IEP
sign in/out sheet
Go through pages 1-5
Explain goals
Pgs. 6- 7
Review conference notes
Sign consent for placement
Make copies of IEP
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Who are the IEP members that mist be present during an IEP meeting?
- Parent Evaluation specialist
- Student
- General ed.
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Who else could be present during the meeting if needed?
Physical therapist
Occupational therapist
Speech langauge pathologist
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What are the levels of ESE services placement?
General ed with modifications
General ed with related services
General ed (inclusion)
General ed with resource center instruction
Self contained ESE class in school
Special ed class in special ed school
Residential facility
Home/Hospital program
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Eligibilities under IDEA include the following
Deaf, blind, other health impairment, developmental delay,Intellectual disability, emotional disturbance, hearing imparirment, orthopedic impairment, multiple disabilities, Traumatic brain injury, speech/language impairment, specific learning disability, visual impairment
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The difference between Sunshine state standards and Access points.
Sunshine standards are used for general education students on a regular diploma track. Access points are used for students with disabilities who need adjusted curriculum to meet their specific learning needs.
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Components of the IEP are the following
Special considerations before IEP
Present levels of academic performance
Transition services
Goals pages
Special education services
Participation in state assessments
Educational placement
Conference notes
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Standardized assessment
are formal assessments are published tests that are generally published by experts. They come with precise directions and scoring procedures.
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Non standard assessments
are informal assessments are usually teacher created tests that can be used to determine as student's particualar strengths or weaknesses. It does not come with precise directions or scoring procedures.
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Norm referenced tests
compare a student's performance with the performamce of a comparison group (same age and grade).
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Criterion referenced tests
describe a student's performance as an individual without the comparsion to other students.
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A variety of scores that represent performance by comparing the deviation of an individual score with the mean or an average score for students in a norm group.
A standardized score
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The score range shown on a bell curve of a low of one to a high of nine. Scores between four and six are average.
Stanine
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Most commonly used norm score and describes how a student compares with others from the same age and grade.
Percentile
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The standardized error of measurement
estimate of how often errors of a given size in a student's score are exprected.
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The number of items on a test that a student answers correctly.
Raw score
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Informal assessments
Prepared by classroom teachers for a particular subject and specific conditions that can be modified or adjusted to meet student's needs and teacher's purposes.
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Types of observation include
Student observations,systematic observations, group assessments, test settings.
Work samples Record review, student interview, parent interview, teacher interview
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Grading systems include
Task analysis, dynamic assessments, Curriculum based probes, Portfolio assessment, performance assessments, Informal inventorithink aloudes, functional/ adaptive assessments, response journals, think aloud techniques, checklists, questionaires, error analysis, self evaluations, peer evaluations
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Speech disorder
affects one's ability to speak words so they are understandable to others. may involve disorders of the voice, fluency, and articulation.
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Langauge disorder
is when a person struggles to understand spoken or written language. Langauge disorders can be caused due to many different reasons such as autism, hearing loss, Traumatic brain injury, and stroke.
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Pragmatics definition
Rules of social language
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A social story
describes a situation, skill, or concept in terms of social cues, perspectives and proper responses.
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Before kindergarten how do you prevent reading problems/difficulties?
Teaching skills in oral language, phonemic awareness, Print awareness, knowledge of the alphabet.
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Components of reading comprehension
memory, prior knowledge, interest in the topic being read
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The six writing traits are
Idea and content
Organization
Voice
Sentence fluency
Word choice
Conventions
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How to perform an error analysis?
The student writes a sample passage
the teacher analyzes and records the pattern of errors
The teacher should not count the same error more than once
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