Suitable Individual Education Plans For Students With Disabilities

By Olivia Cross


Children with delayed skills or other disabilities need to be given specialized treatments. Such treatments include individual education plans for students with disabilities. Understanding these services are essential to all parents to ensure that their children access appropriate and effective services as well as advocating for children with special needs. According to the individuals with disability act 2014 parent with special need children is part of the education team for their children.

Through this they will be able to give useful information as they spent most other time with their children compared to other stakeholders. Such information is essential to educators in designing individual educational plan. The main aim of coming up with such plan is to assist in designing activities for the child in school to facilitates their growth and development.

Not every child need IEP, only those children with difficulty in functioning and learning that have been identified by professionals as special need students are required to be designed for the IEP. However, kids struggling in schools can also benefits from such supports. That is, giving them an opportunity to be taught in a special way. These services are offered to individuals suffering from learning disability, emotional disorders, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, cognitive challenges, hearing impairment, autism, speech or language impairment, visual impairment and development delay among others.

This is done through giving them an opportunity to be taught in a unique way. These service are effective to learners suffering from, autism, hearing impairment, learning disability, ADH, emotional disorders, developmental delay, language or speech disorders among others. Such disorders can negatively impair their learning process.

This specialized room can be put in place to serve a group of kid suffering from similar condition or similar needs and are brought together for help. However, children with intense needs might not benefit from such intervention; they need a specialized school environment. In which the classes have fewer students per teachers making more necessary for individualized attention.

Similarly, there are specialized reading rooms where such services can be rendered. In these rooms there are unique facilities that suit the demands and needs of learners. However, those with intense needs may not benefit from such intercessions necessitating other placements or referral. In such environments, there are specialized facilities that match their disability and the student teacher ratio is standardized to give opportunity for individualized attention to learners.

Efforts are geared towards ensuring that children are helped to stay in a regular classroom. However, where it is only possible to meet their unique needs in specialized classroom, they are better placed in one.

The onset of this process is facilitated by identification of deviation from normal behaviors of the child by a parent, doctor, teacher, psychologist or counselor, doctor among other professional individuals dealing with your child. The next step that follows is carrying out an assessment regarding their academic and behavioral problems. This is carried out through engaging the parents, observing the students and analysis of their performance in all aspects of development. Such assessment should be carried out in a more professional ways. If not effectively done, it can affect the placement of your child which might in turn worsen their condition.




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