Roles And Responsibilities: The Bilingual Special Educator

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Roles and Responsibilities
Children with disabilities have different learning needs that require special education services. Many professionals are part of the child’s learning journey. Each professional plays an important role. These professionals share goals and decisions. All professionals bring training and experiences into the process. Their collaborative goal is for all children to be provided with the resources needed.
According to (Friend, 2014, p. 38), special education teachers manage students overall performance. Special educators teachers work directly with children, who have a variety of disabilities. Each disability requires of different support so special education teachers roles and responsibilities variety. Their first main responsibility is the curriculum of the classroom. One of their responsibilities
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According to (Friend, 2014), the Bilingual Special Educator posses unique skills and training: “knowledge of langue proficiency, appropriate assessment tools and techniques, cultural and linguistic diversity, effective delivery of instruction, and professionalism for working with colleagues families, and community services.” Early interventionists are Early Childhood Educators that provide services with developmental delays. These professionals work with children from birth to five years old. Their main role is to provide individual services to children within their homes. Early Childhood Educators provide children services at a center based or they conduct home visits where the children are provided with services. There are some children that require further services such as physical therapy. Adapted physical educators engage with children in physical activities. They provide physical therapies during a child’s general physical education class or in a private class (Friend, 2014, p.

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