Wednesday 15 April 2015

Suitable Individual Education Plans For Students With Disabilities

By Olivia Cross


Children with disabilities or delayed skills should be given specialized treatments. These treatments entail individual education plans for students with disabilities. It is essential to understand these services offered to children by parents with special need children. Through this, they will be able to provide a facilitating environment and advocates for their children. As stated in the 2014 act of the individuals with disability, parents with special need children must be part of the education team that evaluates and assess their children.

Through this they will be able to give useful information as they spent most other time with their children compared to other stakeholders. Such information is essential to educators in designing individual educational plan. The main aim of coming up with such plan is to assist in designing activities for the child in school to facilitates their growth and development.

It is important to note that, every child can be subjected to such programs; one should only consider subjecting students who have been identified with professional to be having difficulties in learning and functioning therefore, necessitating the design for IEP plans. Other kids can also benefits from these programs such as children with struggling from in class activities.

This is done through giving them an opportunity to be taught in a unique way. These service are effective to learners suffering from, autism, hearing impairment, learning disability, ADH, emotional disorders, developmental delay, language or speech disorders among others. Such disorders can negatively impair their learning process.

These services can be offered in a regular school environment. Where teachers give individualized attention to learners suffering from such challenges. For instance, in a regular classroom, a teacher can pay assist an individual or a small group of learners in reading while the regular teacher is assisting the rest of the learners in similar reading activities.

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.

This individual needs a specialized environment with unique facilities that match their needs. In such environment, classes have fewer students per a teacher making possible for individualized attention to such learners.

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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