Processing Social Information
Anyone know why a person with a PhD is working at a fast-food place? If you think it is because they may not have very good social skills, you have maybe 20% of the answer. Actually, they may have some very reasonable social skills; however, like most topics connected to learning, the concept of social skills is just the tip of the iceberg. It is only in addressing the entire topic of social competence that we can save our children from the social isolation that so many experience...
Predict & Prevent to Extinguish Negative Behavior
POSITIVE TACTICS FOR NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR
When I was teaching life skills in a high school, I had a non-verbal student whose reaction to a perceived challenge of almost any kind was to rock violently at his desk, scream at the top of his lungs, and bite his finger down to the bone. It did not take long to realize that changes from the expected schedule, and any circumstance that induced confusion or frustration was worthy of an outburst. He also had lots of tells. You know all those subtle...
Fundamentals of Instructional Approach to Behavior
MAINTAINING SANITY IN THE MIDST OF NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR
If it is well established that all behavior is a form of communication that does not always translate easily and can be quite obscure. Why is it then that behavior frequently can send otherwise rational adults to the brink of mental and/or emotional breakdown with irrational behaviors of their own? Do you really think that child is deliberately trying to make you crazy?
Our job as adults is to understand what the child is trying to...
EDUCATIONAL REGRESSION
IS YOUR CHILD
LOSING OUT ON SERVICES ?
14% -19% OF CHILDREN
ARE DUE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION SERVICES
DUE TO STAGNATION OR REGRESSION!
BUT WILL THEY GET IT ???????
The COVID-19 pandemic created very unique challenges for schools, students, and parents but, School Districts had continued obligations to students with disabilities during COVID-19 school closures for students receiving IEPs and 504 plans.
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15 Principles of Restraint & Seclusion
When I read that a six-year-old has been taken from a school in handcuffs by police, as a former special ed teacher, I want to take every administrator in the building from the school in handcuffs by police and let them stay in jail for a couple of days not knowing what is going to happen just to give them a taste of the trauma imposed on that child.
COMFORT not CONTROL
CONNECTION not CONSEQUENCES
I realize that behavior can be exceedingly disruptive and that is why it is so important...
Comp Ed Agreements: More of What You Need to Know
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROPOSALS
Determinations Must be Individualized.
Think about when will compensatory education be provided? • It should not be delivered when the child is involved in other learning opportunities.
• It should not feel like a punishment.
- When will it be convenient for the child and family?
- When will it be convenient for the school and providers?
- Will it impact the child’s need for...
Understanding Compensatory Education!!
UNDERSTANDING
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION
What is it for?
Who is entitled to Comp. Ed.?
Why is it awarded?
Things that can go wrong!
Compensatory education is for a student deprived of reaching their special education and related services goals in their IEP. Compensatory education is an educational fund or services put in place to help a child to get caught up where deficiencies have been found in meeting IEP goals, when the school district is out of compliance in providing FAPE, a Free...
Your Evaluation Sucks! Now What?
YOUR EVALUATION "SUCKS"
YOU WANT TO DISAGREE
SO WHAT DO YOU DO ?!?
ONLY 4 REASONS
TO DISAGREE WITH
AN EVALUATION UNDER I.D.E.A.
There are times when you are quite sure the child they are discussing is not even related to the child the meeting is for.
Did you know that there are only four standards that can be considered that will allow you to disagree with an evaluation?
A recent national survey of highly qualified education advocates found that...
LRE = Gateway to Inclusion
Equality, Equity and LRE
When the federal government finally said that the school district could not simply declare that a child "could not be educated" and send them home in 1975 with the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA ),it was the beginning of many new policies in education. One of those new policies was eventually understood as Least Restrictive Environment. Looking at the concept of Least Restrictive Environment, it becomes clear that policy certainly...
A Goal without a Plan is a WISH!!
GET YOUR GOALS RIGHT!
The concept of Inference is one of those things that we rarely think about because so much of it is automatic and unconscious. That is also why it is so important to be sure that our students are given the opportunity to actually learn and use inference in the right way. It often does not come naturally to them and it is our job to address the how through their IEP goals.
If your inference goals read like this:
John will increase his ability to make inferences and draw...
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