Special Air Service

formation Dr. Elizabeth Frank has been the head psychologist for nearly 7 years at Manhattan Charter School, which is located in the Lower East Side. Dr. Frank sums up her title as being a related service provider for mandated students and a psychologist for the other students. Students are from various backgrounds; majority of the students live in the neighborhood and qualify for free or reduced price lunch. The school is a general education setting, with a population of about 250 students. 1.…

First, the air track was adjusted until it was horizontal to the table surface. Then a pulley system was set up: a glider with a flag was placed on the air track; it was connected to a hanger with an inextensible string. The airflow was also adjusted such that the glider moves freely with no friction. A photo-gate was also placed onto the air track, and this was connected to the computer program, LoggerPro. When the experimental…

Shipley and another SLP colleague. We observed a Pre-K classroom that had 1 typically developing child and then 1 special needs child. Ms. Shipley, her colleague, the classroom teacher, and the special needs child’s PARA (Para Professional) all worked together with the day’s activity called, “Name that Tune”. They started the activity by introducing some of the different songs to the children. Ms. Shipley…

minutes for the translator. She was late due to another meeting, and the mother spoke no English, so we had to wait patiently. Once everyone was in attendance, we started with introductions. The people in attendance at the meeting were as follows: special education teacher, general education science teacher, mother, interpreter, school psychologist, assistant principle, and myself. We went around and introduced ourselves, and then the school psychologist offered to review her rights, or the…

the nature of the exceptionality prevents the student from receiving an appropriate education (Heward 2013). To be sure that the student with exceptionalities is being educated in the LRE appropriate, schools need to provide constant placements and services. A least restrictive environment will look like a classroom full with students that have a variety of needs. This will impact the classroom teacher because I need to know what is appropriate for the student and how long the student should be…

years. “Inclusion is defined as providing specially designed instruction and support for students with special needs in the context of regular education settings.” (Lindsay) This just means that all students have the same equal opportunity in the traditional educational setting. Children with disabilities have been placed in a separate setting than their peers for many years. It’s been said from special education teachers, parents and administrators that separating students with disabilities are…

Without it, some of these students may never reach their full potential, as they would fall even further behind in a mainstream classroom. I think it may be possible that if the student received special education services part-time throughout a regular school day that they would not be able to catch up as quickly as they would attending The College School. For my third school observation, I chose to review the Delaware School for the Deaf. The educational…

Numerous products were then reviewed and utilized in the science labs. Students with visual disabilities from Neely’s (2007) study found the most useful piece of equipment to be the magnification camera device known as Clarity (a camera mounted on a movable arm that captures the picture, magnifies the image, and is displayed on a computer monitor). Clarity was able to assist students with limited vision read small measurements or text on graduated cylinders or thermometers. However, it was found…

However, because of the progress Pete has shown the initial plan will be kept. For the scenario, Pete has done extraordinarily well regarding the use of Earobics, and while he has improved with journal keeping, still has off days. The special education teacher says this is natural, and that the idea is that Pete at least tries to remember and fill in the journal, rather than the journal a measure of assessment for him (though it does help). It is, however, felt by the parents that Pete…

started out subbing for a few years before beginning to teach gifted. The first topic I asked about in my interview was about the different services that the school provided for individuals with disabilities. The school offers the normal services, such as OT, PT, Speech Therapy,…