ch. 10: Language, Reading, and Learning in School: What We Need to Know. Flashcards
What percent of children have disabilities in the schools?
80%
What percent of children have Learning Disability?
46%
What percent of children have Speech-Language Impairment?
20%
What percent of children have Intellectual Disability?
9%
What percent of children have Emotional Disturbances?
8%
Children with poor academic achievement are separated into what two categories?
Language Learning Disability
Learning Disability
LLD
refers to students who have difficulty with various aspects of communication that interfere with their ability.
Critical Roles of the SLP
- Working across all levels
- Serving a range of disorders
- ensuring educational relevance
- Providing unique contributions to curriculum
- Highlighting language/literacy
- Providing culturally come tent services
Critical Roles: Range of Responsibilities
- Prevention
- Assessment
- Intervention
- Program Design
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Compliance
Critical Roles: Collaboration
- With other school professionals
- With universities
- Within the community
- With families
- With students
Critical Role: Leadership
- Advocacy
- Supervision and Mentorship
- Professional development
- Parent Training
- Research
Individual with Disabilities Education Act of 1997
Reauthorized in 2004
- Increasing parental participation
- Identifying student strengths and parental concerns
- Raising expectations for children with disabilities by relating student progress to the general education curriculum
- Ensuring that all children have scientifically based instruction
- Including regular education teachers in the special educational team
- Including children with disabilities in district-wide assessments and reports
- Supporting high standards for professionals involved in service provision
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
- Focuses on increasing accountability.
- Requires schools show adequate yearly progress (AYP) on tests and graduation rates
- Allows schools to spend special education funds to support students in the general curriculum
- Provides standards for reading instruction
- Mandates consequences for schools that fail to demonstrate AYP
Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Guarantees equal protection for individuals with physical or mental disabilities
- Requires accommodations for students to participate in general education
- Used for students who do no qualify for the diagnostic categories by IDEA, 2004
Diagnostic Categories identified by IDEA, 2004
Autism Hearing Impairment Emotional Disturbances Orthopedic Impairment Speech/Langage Impairment Multiple Impairments Visual Impairments Deaf-Blindness Intellectual Disability Specific Learning Disability Traumatic Brain Injury Other Health Impaired
Achieving Classroom Excellence Act (ACE)
requires students to demonstrate mastery of the state content standards in order to receive a high school diploma.
Reading Sufficiency Act (RSA)
requires schools to provide individualized attention, intervention, and remediation for students in first through third grade who are struggling to read on grade level.
RTI
- Pre-referral model that attempts to resolve learning problems within the regular education setting, providing classroom modifications and accommodations that can prevent the need for special education.
- Aim: To prevent reading and learning disability
Tier 1
High quality, scientifically research based classroom instruction with ongoing curriculum based assessment and continuous progress monitoring.
Tier 2
Specialized instruction for students who lag behind peers.
Tier 3
For students who do not make progress with tier II instruction.
Eligibility for special education and related services are determined by multidisciplinary team.
Roles of SLP in RTI:
Participating Collaboration Assiting Helping Providing Conducting
Roles of SLP in RTI: Participating
Planning and conducting professional development on the language basis of literacy
Helping to select scientifically based literacy instruction programs
Choosing appropriate screening and progress-monitoring approaches
Roles of SLP in RTI: Collaboration
Collaborating with general education teachers in presenting Tier I instruction
Roles of SLP in RTI: Assisting
Assisting with ongoing progress monitoring
Roles of SLP in RTI: Helping
Helping teachers develop accommodations within Tier I for struggling students
Roles of SLP in RTI: Providing
Providing or planning small group and individual instruction at Tiers II and III
Roles of SLP in RTI: Conducting
Conducting assessments to identify struggling students and monitor progress
Other roles of the SLP
- Determining eligibility for students referred for speech-language services
- Documenting present level of performance for students with special educational needs
- Writing individualized educational plans, including
- Annual goals: attainable within a year, long-term
- Short-term benchmarks: steps toward the annual goal, might be for 9-weeks, a semester. Should be specific, measurable, relevant, and teachable and attainable.
- Specifying services, modifications, and accommodations
- Evaluating progress - Delivering services within the curriculum
- Developing a continuum of services to meet student needs and provide appropriate degree of inclusion