Specials

into a special education classroom, it is extremely rare to see only one adult. Traditionally, when individuals think about the classroom setting, they think of the desks, the books, the students, and the teacher. Not many picture a classroom as having multiple adults in the room. These individuals are coming in and out throughout the day each at a different pace and frequency. It is very hard to keep track of all of the professionals and the services that each student requires. In a special…

some kids or people with special needs look they way they do? “ You might be able to spot a few kids with special needs, but you probably don’t notice all of them”(kids). However they do not want to feel like out, they want to be accepted into society, like anyone else. Because they are people, having a disability , learning delay or a deformity does not mean they are not people. They are, however their disability, learning delay and or deformity makes them much more special. Of course taking a…

Swaab, 2012). In an attempt to meet the mandates of NCLB and IDEA, educators must address impediments to special education student’s academic achievement. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate how culture, specifically special education culture is keeping students with a disability from achieving academically. In the United States, there are many cultures and many…

The process of diagnosing a child with a disability, and obtaining special education services, can be complex and take significant time. Special education services do not just start when a child is old enough to attend school, services for a student with a disability can begin as early as birth, and go until that child graduates high school, and even beyond, until they are twenty-two. To start the process, there first has to be a diagnosis. Testing was not always a major factor for pre-school…

One of the most complex issues in special education today is disproportionality. Approximately 13.5 percent of all students in schools K-12 receive special education services, however, minority students are receiving special education services at rates that are significantly higher (Disproportionality, 2008). There are higher rates of minorities being placed in special education compared to their counterparts. When focusing on African Americans, they compose 17 percent of all students in the…

Currently, there are millions of children in the United States that are living with some type of disability. Many of these special needs children are growing up with one or more siblings in their home. Most research that has been done involving children with special needs focuses on the special needs child or the parents, but it usually does not reflect the siblings of special needs children or how they are impacted. When thinking about this particular topic there are a number of different…

To begin, “Special education’s purpose was to bring the performance of students with disabilities closer to that of their nondisabled peers in regular classrooms to move as many students as possible into the mainstream with appropriate support” (Kauffman, McGee and Brigham, 2004, p. 613). This theory had good intentions, yet like many other theories, it was taken to the extreme, leaving many special education students suffering in the general education classroom…

Special education works best with effective collaboration among members of the special education program (IEP) team. The collaboration must be more than the IEP meeting itself. It insures the team continues to communicate and work together to meet the student’s needs. The goal is for the team is for the student to be successful. When general education teachers and special education teachers work together along with the IEP team, the student becomes, our student, and the goals of the IEP drive…

Standards: Being a special education teacher, there are multiple roles to help students succeed in school. In diverse schools, special education teachers need to build a professional platform to help their students succeed. Special education teachers are held to ethical standards when it comes to the way they conduct themselves when working with students and their families. The Code of Ethics Principle (CEC) for Special Education Professionals has 12 principles that maintain special education…

Special education is in every school system to help students with disabilities have success in life. According to Artiles and colleagues research, children back in the 1800s were excluded from educational opportunities (Artiles, Harris-Murri, and Rostenberg, 2006, p. 260). Children with disabilities were often segregated into either a separate classroom or separate schools with curriculum that didn’t fit their needs (Artiles, 2006, p. 260). Children were held to low standards, but fortunately…