INTRODUCTION TO EXCEPTIONALITIESSPED 23000

INSTRUCTOR: BRIAN FRIEDT

Society, inclusion, outcomes

This week

Supplemental reading Read this at some point. If you are writing a reflection this week, read what

you need to.

Volunteer experience project Start thinking.

An acknowledgement

There is a ton of material in chapter two We will examine it some of it closely. We will gloss over some of it. Some of the material in chapter two overlaps with

stuff we discussed last week. (This is good.) There will be things that we look at briefly this week

and discuss at much greater length later. Much of this material lays the foundation for the

course.

Normalization and institutionalization

Social validity Significance of goals Social appropriateness of procedures Importance of effects (Wolf, 1978)

Unintended consequencesRational examination of educationally

relevant variables.Continuum of services/placements

Labels

Labels drive service provision.

Labels can be misused.

Labels are (probably) unavoidable.

Universal design for learning

RepresentationExpressionEngagement

We will talk about this all semester.

Differentiated instruction

Kids are different, right?

Practical?

Effective?

Standards?

Technology

Cochlear implantsDynavoxKurzweilDragonspeakAnd so on…

We will talk about this all semester.

Inclusion

Full inclusion Full anything?

Evidence

Ethics

Educationally relevant variable Race (not relevant) Disability (situationally relevant)

Inclusion

Continuum of placement Appropriateness Variety

Collaboration Co-teaching Consulting Teams

We will talk about this all semester.

Accommodation and modification

Accommodation Changes that don’t affect content or instructional

goals Assessments read aloud, scribe, Braille, large text,

reduced assignments (maybe)… Modification

Changes that do affect content or instructional goals Alternate materials, variable difficulty, reduced

assignments (maybe), modified assessments

We will talk about this all semester.

Identification

Pre-referral teams (child study teams, evaluation teams…)

RTIMFE

We will talk about this all semester.

Assessment

Progress monitoring!

Data!

We will talk about this all semester.

Early intervention

It works (see the article this week).

It can take a bunch of forms.

It looks different from school age special education.

Developmental delay/IFSP

We will talk about this all semester.

Transition

Huge focus on post-secondary world.

In general, students with disabilities do worse in the post-secondary world than their typically developing peers. Graduation rates (for some disability categories) Standardized test scores Employment rates

We will talk about this all semester.

Transition

Education

Independent living

Employment

Community involvement

Discipline

Manifestation determination A word.

Behavior modification

We will talk about this all semester.