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ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS & EDUCATION ADVOCACY SKILLS accommodations advocacy child focused cross training documentation education advocacy evaluations functional outcomes iep development parent concerns parent participation in iep progress monitoring Dec 16, 2022

EDUCATION ADVOCACY SKILLS

"ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION IS OFTEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAVING AN ANSWER. A RIGHT QUESTION CAN LEAD TO THE RIGHT ANSWER."

Marie Lewis PhD, BCEA

The world of Special Education leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to transparency and direction.  Some of that...

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When Your Child Needs ABA aba therapy classroom tactics educational gaps lre least restrictive environment parent training progress monitoring research based instruction sas supplementary aids & services specially designed instruction sdi vb classroom writing goals Nov 05, 2022

 

 

The following are examples of what educational needs, SDIs, and Goals could look like for a child with autism who needs ABA.

This does not have to be an ABA or VB classroom!

The following is just so you can get a taste of what should be individualized in the IEP.

 

Let’s...

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SO HOW DO I WRITE A GOAL? iep development parent training progress monitoring Dec 14, 2020

DEFINING MEASURABLE GOAL COMPONENTS

If you have a student with an IEP you have read lots of goals, but do you have any idea about how appropriate a given goal is? Will this goal lead to any functional outcomes or is this just one more exercise in frustration? So how can I tell that the goal is a...

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SMARTER GOALS - MEASURABLE iep development iep goals present levels of performance progress monitoring Nov 23, 2020

SMARTER GOALS – M

 

MEASURABLE AND MEANINGFUL DATA COLLECTION MUST BE ESTABLISHED

Identification of needs requires defined meaningful data collection that determines next steps in evaluations, research based programing, & other areas of need. The IEP is designed in order to allow...

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PITFALLS TO AVOID WHEN HOMESCHOOLING compliance home school progress monitoring truancy Nov 14, 2020

 
 

PITFALLS TO AVOID

WHEN HOMESCHOOLING

Truancy, Compliance, and

Progress Monitoring

By: Jen Fauls-Leaver

 

New groups of homeschooling families are being welcomed each day. Many families are feeling they are not ready to have their children return to in-person schooling and...

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