Serving Students with Special Needs A Practical Guide for Administrators [Hardcover]

Serving Students with Special Needsprovides administrators with essential knowledge about the requirements for special education services, as well as practical steps to ensure legal compliance and appropriate services for students with special needs. Each chapter includes basic information followed by specific suggestions or steps. This brief, easily applied, and highly practical guide covers:

• Instruction, including differentiated instruction and universal design for learning
• Assessment, including accommodations and modifications and response to intervention (RTI)
• Developing multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS)
• Student progress monitoring and using large data sets to inform decision making
• Mediation, due process hearings, and litigation
• Systems management and positive behavioral intervention supports (PBIS)

Scenarios are presented along with suggested responses and solutions.Serving Students with Special Needshas been specifically developed to provide administrators with practical suggestions to quickly and effectively implement appropriate special education practices.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Overview of History of Special Education

Chapter 2: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Chapter 3: Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Chapter 4: Conflicts Between School and Parents

Chapter 5: IEP Process for Students with Disabilities

Chapter 6: Placement Options and Instructional Models for Serving Students with Disabilities

Chapter 7: Intervention Techniques and Methods

Chapter 8: Discipline and Students with Disabilities

Chapter 9: PersonnelóW