Friday 20 February 2015

Suitable 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.

This makes it possible to identify and come up with appropriate and workable plan for their kid together with the educators that will effectively assist their kids to succeed in school activities. The aim of IEP plan is design activities for the kid during school year and supports that will assist them in achieving their maximum 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.

However, other children struggling in schools can also be helped through IEP. This is where they are given opportunity to be taught through individualized learning. These services effectively serves children suffering from conditions such as hearing impairment, ADH, learning disability, autism, development delays, emotional disorders, language and speech disorders among other similar disabilities which can negatively impair learning.

You might be wondering about how these services are offered in a regular school setting. When these services are offered in the regular school environment, the teachers are required to give individualized services to such learners. For example, one teacher can be tasked to assist a student or a group of students in reading during reading class activity as the rest of learners are assisted by a regular teacher.

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 onset of this process is facilitated by identification of deviation from normal behaviors of the child by a parent, doctor, teacher, psychologist or counselor, doctor among other professional individuals dealing with your child. The next step that follows is carrying out an assessment regarding their academic and behavioral problems. This is carried out through engaging the parents, observing the students and analysis of their performance in all aspects of development. Such assessment should be carried out in a more professional ways. If not effectively done, it can affect the placement of your child which might in turn worsen their condition.




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