Access to Educational Technology: Students With Special Needs Students with Special Needs: Access to Educational Technology Technology has literally changed the way we live our lives in the education sector, as well as in recreation and employment. Continue Reading...
Joe Accommodating students with disabilities means enabling the students to participate in normal classroom activities in the least restrictive environment possible: special provisions must be made for the student to compensate for his or her disabi Continue Reading...
Technology on 4th and 5th Grade Student's Academic Achievement Students today learn differently as a result of technology (Presnky, 2008). Schools differ in technology uptake and execution. Davis (2012), states that schools had to take this up beca Continue Reading...
Special Needs Assessment: A Review of Recent Literature on Testing Students with Special Needs One of the most difficult and controversial issues in education today is the question of identifying, testing and educating students with potential specia Continue Reading...
representation has become a very contentious issue of late. Typically, overrepresentation is characterized with race or socio-economic status. Society often wants to an equal distribution and equal opportunity for all. This concept on the surface sh Continue Reading...
School-Wide Assessment Plan Schoolwide Devlopment Plan Assessing the Context or Input As a certified teacher in Special Education and capable to teach English to English Language Learners, I plan to create an assessment plan to measure abilities Continue Reading...
Best practices that help students with learning disabilities consistently focus on early intervention not only for educational benefit, but also because early intervention promotes greater social skills ability and development among children (Wong Continue Reading...
Suter, J., & M. Giangreco. (2009). Numbers that count: Exploring special education and paraprofessional service delivery in inclusion-oriented schools. The Journal of Special Education, 43(2), 81-93. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from Research Continue Reading...
At-risk preschoolers and students with ADHD The growth and development of children under the school going age is often expected to be normal and almost similar among all children. However, this is often not the reality in the society as some children Continue Reading...
Characteristics of Successful Job Placement Programs for Special Needs Adults Introduction Involvement in employment activities is deemed across the globe as one of the significant transition results for young adults with disabilities. The capability Continue Reading...
Special Needs Education Briefly discuss trend education special children (learning disabled.) French Revolution. What philosophic principles period education reflects? Briefly discuss the trend in the education of special needs children (learning d Continue Reading...
Special Needs Children with Special Needs It is difficult to imagine a more vulnerable group than that comprised by children and adolescents with special needs. The vulnerability lies in the fact that though they have a voice it is often ignored. T Continue Reading...
Special Needs Intervention Client Profile Brenda is a seven-year-old second grader that has been identified as dyslexic. She has significant delays in pre-literacy and numeracy skills have been identified through both formal assessment and performa Continue Reading...
While some suggest that high-stakes testing is an inadequate way of measuring the academic achievement and learning of most students, many also agree that high-stakes testing has severe disadvantages for special education students. Kymes points out Continue Reading...
A group approach is considered beneficial as teachers "need to rethink their traditional teaching roles and expand their repertoire of teaching skills to include techniques that help students enhance their comprehension" and students who receive ind Continue Reading...
Special Education Since the introduction of PL-142 the Special education system has received both praise and criticism. Special Education Programs are an essential component to our educational system. The current special education system has aided Continue Reading...
" May (2003) emphasizes the need exists for greater technological sense and knowledge for all current and future students. Consequently, this need has led to incorporation of technology in classrooms settings, as technologies aim to increase students Continue Reading...
Functional Curriculum Goals Special needs children: Integration vs. self-contained classrooms Under the auspices of the 1975 federal law IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act), every child with a disability is entitled to receive a public educat Continue Reading...
Included in life skills are such as the ability to manage personal finances, the ability to manage a household, the ability to care for personal needs, and awareness of safety as well as many other life skills including citizenship and leisure activ Continue Reading...
Educators and school administrators have a legal and ethical obligation to create learning environments that serve all students, include those who have been labeled with emotional or developmental disabilities, or with behavioral disorders. I believe Continue Reading...
Then students use AlphaSmart software to paste the picture and explain in a paragraph why, how and where in the plot they feel that picture relates to the story. This tests three things: (a) student concentration; (b) student level of understanding Continue Reading...
In their study, "Thinking of Inclusion for All Special Needs Students: Better Think Again," Rasch and his colleagues (1994) report that, "The political argument in favor of inclusion is based on the assumption that the civil rights of students, as Continue Reading...
Doyle ( 2003) states that the educator has an obligation to identify and provide adequate attention to those with special needs and at the same time not deal with these children in a prejudicial way. Doyle uses the example of students who may have Continue Reading...
Just as physically impaired students receive the benefit of appropriate testing accommodations, so should all special needs students. Ultimately, imposing certain minimal standards of overall academic achievement in connection with graduation may, Continue Reading...
It is also worth noting that the evolving nature of special education can be attributed to the cultural changes, family values, and civilizations taking place. Research attitudes towards people with special educational needs exhibit considerable va Continue Reading...
Reading, writing and arithmetic skills can be expected to progress at a different rate, but these skills are essential to self0sufficicincy and are arguably more important in a special needs classroom for this reason. A departure form mainstream edu Continue Reading...
Special Ed Disproportionate Representation of Minorities in Special Education Special Education is intended to function as a powerful resource for giving extra attention, assistance and educational resource to those with severe and irreparable lear Continue Reading...
, 210-221). It would appear that the pre-training of parents in dealing with autism augments the hands-on training that the children receive. While there is need for more research, it appears that this relationship has been demonstrated to be signif Continue Reading...
The language employed did not obfuscate the points the authors were making and generally assisted in ensuring that their argument was lucid and efficient. This is an important feature because very often writers will produce work where the reader is Continue Reading...
In my view, it is clear that the parents' decision to include their son in mainstream high school classes was a wise one. Even with their reservations, it appears that educational professionals agreed with this view. The disagreements are evidentl Continue Reading...
Regular educators are also frustrated with the way NCLB penalizes schools that have high numbers of special education students. Even when those schools are serving special education students well enough to become local "magnets" because their good Continue Reading...
More importantly, our appreciative and participatory stance with our co-researchers has allowed us to witness and learn about the cutting edge of leadership work in such a way that is and feels qualitatively different from other research traditions Continue Reading...
There is little doubt that students with special needs require more support services, and the article referenced above adds clarity to that assertion. What also is true is that often students with disabilities are harassed, made fun of and even bul Continue Reading...
Student Philosophy of Behavior It is necessary for instructors to meet the individual needs of their students, particularly when these students have special needs such as learning differences or other potential disabilities. The pedagogue must discu Continue Reading...
Meanwhile, paraprofessionals and special education facilitators are available in greater supply and provide considerable relief to the burdens placed upon dedicated fulltime special education professionals (Suter & Giangreco, 2009). Whereas the Continue Reading...
It would not only be time consuming and expensive for each classroom teacher to develop an effective basic reading skills curriculum but such a curriculum is also fraught with a high degree of error. There is compelling evidence that supports the us Continue Reading...
Inclusion is thought to be a best practice. Under this philosophy most students with mild disabilities spend the greater part of their day in the general education setting with their peers. Students may be allocated an instructional assistant to he Continue Reading...
PARC won their case, with the court ruling that all children, including those with identified special needs, were entitled to a "free, appropriate public education" (Eric 1998). This case, and several others that challenged similar laws and/or de fa Continue Reading...
Instead of the special education teacher and the general education teacher duplicating efforts for many children it has been shown that their efforts are better put to use in collaborating in their teaching efforts. Individuals cannot be effective t Continue Reading...
The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). Wit Continue Reading...
