Individualized Special Education Services: Planning &
Delivering Services
Special Education is…..
A program of services not a PLACE!
Appropriate Evaluations – 3 Types
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Identification of students for special education (multidisciplinary
evaluation)
Inform instructional practices (assessment linked to instruction)
Determine short- and long-term gains (progress monitoring)
Evaluation Team Members
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General education teacher
Special education teacher
Parents
Specialists appropriate for referral concern: May include school psychologist,
audiologist, speech pathologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist,
school nurse, school social worker, physical education teacher, reading
specialist
What IDEA says about Procedural Safeguards……..
Parents have the right to…
-Be notified and invited to all meetings
- Give permission for evaluation and to obtain independent
evaluations
-Assess their children’s record
-Participate in all decisions about their child’s IEP—program,
placement, goals & objectives
-Mediation, due process, civil action
What Service Delivery Options Might I Have?
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Pull-in Programming (Full Inclusion)
Co-teaching
Consultation/Collaborative Teaching
Itinerant or Consultative Services
Resource Room (Pull-out Programming)
Special Education Class (Partially self-contained)
Special Education Class (Self-contained)
Center Schools
What does IDEA say about Access to the General
Education Curriculum?
IEP of each student must…
•indicate how the disability affects involvement and progress in gen ed curriculum
•include annual goals that reflect inclusion in gen ed
•describe how the educational program will be modified
•indicate how the student will participate in extracurricular and nonacademic
activities
•discuss plans for integrating the student with nondisabled peers
What is the IEP process?
1. Pre-referral or intervention assistance
2. Referral
3. Evaluation
4. Assessment of Eligibility for Special Education
5. Development of the IEP
6. Implementation of the IEP
7. Annual Review