11/28-School Language and Classroom Programs for Children with Language Impairments: Collaborating with Parents and School Personnel Flashcards
What are the rules in terms of students with disabilities according to FAPE? and what does this include?
- No matter what types of disabilities students have, they have the right to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) that will support their language skills
- it includes both general and special education
What has happened to special education services over the last decade? what is the key? and is was the philosophy?
- Special education services for students with disabilities changed over the past decade
- Key: access to general education via inclusion movement
- philosophy: students with disabilities included and supported in general education classroom
What is the least restrictive environment?
the classroom
What does inclusion decrease the use of?
separate curricula for students with speech language disorders and LD
Research
What does Nelson 2010 caution of classroom-based services?
- Classroom-based services require careful planning and coordination to support some students while not disrupting others
- services need to be specific enough to meet students’ needs
Research
What key principles does the No Child Left Behind Act specify and emphasize? (7 of them)
- Stronger accountability for students’ educational performance
- increase flexibility for states and school districts in use of federal funds
- Increased choices for parents of children from disadvantaged backgrounds
- scientifically-based, effective teaching methods
- SLPs collaborate and consult with classroom teachers
- emphasized reading, enhancing teacher quality, teaching English to English Language Learner students
- Increase school’s accountability requirements for academic and reading achievements of all students
What are the most common models for inclusion of speech, language and special education instruction for students?
- consultation
- collaboration
- co-teaching
What is Consultation?
sharing of expertise with others
What is Collaboration?
- a form of working together and co-teaching with other school professionals
- providing instructions in the classroom or inclusively
What is co-teaching?
sharing the responsibility for planning, teaching lessons, monitoring progress, & make decisions re:needed modifications
For some special education students what is the least restrictive environment?
Resource room
what is the itinerant model used for?
certain types of children who require less contact, less specific classroom instruction
Research
What does Nippold (2011) “language Intervention in the Classroom: what it looks like” say about advantages of SLPs working in classrooms?
-well informed about curriculum
-Familiar with classroom textbooks
-sharing language expertise with teachers
-Ensuring students’ learning needs are met
(on exam!!!**)
What is consultation? and what does this mean?
- Sharing of expertise with others
- indirect service delivery model; consultant (e.g., the SLP or special education teacher) does not work directly with students with special needs
What happens with co-teaching or classroom-based teaching?
classroom teacher and SLP or special educator share responsibility for planning and teaching lessons, monitoring progress, make decisions re:needed modifications
What do other models of collaboration include?
- classroom based complementary teaching
- supportive teaching
- pullout resource management
- self-contained programs (special day class)
What do SLPs who collaborate with other professionals need?
- need good communication skills:
- effective listening
- acceptance of and respect for others
- ability to maintain focus
Who is it especially crucial to have good communication with?
-good communication between parents, teachers, administrators, and special education personnel
Research
What does Kaderavek (2011) state about what classroom collaboration should focus on (3 areas)?
- increase student’s underlying skills
- Facilitating student’s meta-awareness of processes required for successful completion of academic tasks (ie: keeping your background organized, knowing you need to bring stuff back the next day)
- Modifying academic tasks and instructions to increase student’s academic success
What are some successful strategies that can be implemented in the general education classrooms to support ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER students?
- allowing longer wait response times
- pairing English Language Learner students with Bilingual peers who can assist
- contextualizing (connecting with learners previous knowledge)
What are successful strategies a team can implement for general education classrooms to support students with SPECIAL NEEDS?
- time for communication between team members to discuss students’ progress and needed modifications
- team decisions about hat training is needed for co-teachers to successfully implement instructional plans
- professionals’ designing of a co-teaching plan to address student’s needs
Why is it important for classroom teachers to work on listening skills with students? And how much of a students day is spent listening in the classroom?
- it improves specific instruction in listening and strategies for auditory comprehension
- students spend up to 90% of school day listening to teachers
If teachers use strategies to enhance students’ attention skills who will benefit?
ELL students, monolingual and bilingual students with language impairments, and others
When teachers and those who collaborate with them and “go the extra mile” what is the result?
- increase student’s self-esteem
- facilitates successful interactions with peers
