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lundi 23 février 2015

Factors To Consider When Seeking Individual Education Plans For Students With Disabilities

By Olivia Cross


Children with delayed skills or other disabilities need to be given specialized treatments. Such treatments include individual education plans for students with disabilities. Understanding these services are essential to all parents to ensure that their children access appropriate and effective services as well as advocating for children with special needs. According to the individuals with disability act 2014 parent with special need children is part of the education team for their children.

Through this they are able to work effectively with the educators to come up with a plan that suits the needs of their kids to help them succeed in school. The designed IEP plan describes goal and aims of activities to be set for the child during the school year and special supports needed to achieve their potential.

Not every child should be placed in such programs, only children who have been identified to be suffering from disability or delayed skills by trained professional should be placed in such programs.

This is done through giving them an opportunity to be taught in a unique way. These service are effective to learners suffering from, autism, hearing impairment, learning disability, ADH, emotional disorders, developmental delay, language or speech disorders among others. Such disorders can negatively impair their learning process.

These services can be offered in a regular school environment. Where teachers give individualized attention to learners suffering from such challenges. For instance, in a regular classroom, a teacher can pay assist an individual or a small group of learners in reading while the regular teacher is assisting the rest of the learners in similar reading activities.

In most cases teachers usually have specific training to assist children with special educational needs. In integrated schools, such children spend most of their day in a special classroom and latter join the regular classes for nonacademic activities such as gym and music or in academic activities that necessitates little assistance or where they do not require extra help.

Efforts are geared towards ensuring that children are helped to stay in a regular classroom. However, where it is only possible to meet their unique needs in specialized classroom, they are better placed in one.

The process of seeking these services often begins where a parent, teacher, doctor, counselor or psychologist dealing with the child notifies deviations on their behavior from other children. The first step to be undertaken is to gather specific information regarding to the progress or academic problems. This can be done through a conference with the student, parent, and observation of the student as well as analysis of their performance.




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