SPECIAL

EDUCATION
Mawi Mawi
Ivy Tech Community College

CONTENTS
What is Special Education?
Who are Exceptional Children?
Gifted and Talented Children
IDEA
IEP
The right and wrong routes of placement
Benefit of IEP
Identification
Closing remarks
Reflection
Additional resources
References

W H AT I S S P E C I A L E D U C AT I O N ?
Special Education Programs are designed for those
students who are mentally, physically, socially and/or
emotionally delayed.
Due to these special requirements, students needs cannot
be met within the traditional classroom environment.
These services are of no cost to
the family and are available to
children until they reach 21 years of age.

WHO ARE EXCEPTIONAL

CHILDREN?
High-incidence Disabilities

Learning disabilities
Communication disorder
(Speech and language)
Emotional disturbance

Low-incidence Disabilities
Blindness
Deafness
Hard-of-hearing
Deaf-blindness
Significant developmental delay

Cognitive disabilities

Complex health issues

Behavioral disabilities

Serious physical impairment

Mild intellectual disabilities

Multiple disability
Autism

G I F T E D A N D TA L E N T E D C H I L D R E N
Gifted and talented learners are children who are:
exhibits high performance capability in an
intellectual, creative or artistic area,
possesses an unusual capacity for leadership, and
excels in a specific academic field.
They are also included exceptional learners.

IDEA (THE INDIVIDUAL WITH DISABILITIES

E D U C AT I O N A C T )

IDEA defines Special Education as

specially designed instruction, and
no cost to the parents.
It designs to meet the unique needs
of a child with a disability.
It was originally enacted by Congress

Part C of IDEA:
Early Intervention for Babies
and Toddlers
Infants and toddlers with
disabilities (birth-3) and their
families receive early
intervention services.

in 1975.
The most recent amendments were
passed by Congress in December

2004

Part B of IDEA:
Service for School Age Children
Children and youth (ages 3-22)
receive special education and
related services

I E P ( I N D I V I D U A L I Z E D E D U C AT I O N
PROGRAM)
Its written for a child with a
disability.
The school must first
determine whether the child
qualifies for special education
services.
To qualify, the child's disability
must have an adverse effect on
the child's educational progress.

THE RIGHT AND WRONG ROUTES

TO PLACEMENT
Right way:
1.Evaluation/
3.Placement
Identification
Wrong way:
1. Evaluation/
Identification
3.IEP

2. IEP

2.Placement

BENEFITS OF IEP
The following are some benefits of IEP:
Understanding the childs present levels of academic achievement

and functional performance, and

Academic and functional goal will support teachers to focus the

childs level of area.

Since students information is in IEP, even changes of homeschool

teacher would not affect and hinder students learning process.

The IEP is essential requirement in related-to-transition for

students at age 16 to assist them in reaching their goal.

IDENTIFICATION
Tiered-Multiple Instruction

Response to Intervention (RIT)

Tier 1: Universal screening to

Refers to a students change or

identify students who may be at

lack of change in academic

risk of disabilities.

performance or behavior .

Tier 2: Students received small-

Teachers gather data to

group instruction three to four

determine whether the student is

time a week.
- Intervention takes 6-8 weeks.

benefiting from the instruction.

Tier 3: Its special education.

- It includes more intensive
intervention.

It is associated with learning

and academic disabilities.

CLOSING REMARKS
Special education is designed for children who is in special
needs, such as learning disabilities, various health issues etc.
To be able to eligible in special services, children need to
go through several steps of identification such as RIT, IEP,
and tiered-multiple instruction.
If students is eligible for special service through IEP, he/she
will receive services under IDEA which is designed to
protect students with disabilities.

REFLECTION
As a parent of exceptional learners, it is sure that they would like to receive any help they could get
from school or others. In order to do that, parent needs to know what kind of help they could get from
the government. They need to understand, how much help they could get and what kind of services
are under special education. Therefore, I would like to give some information about special education
and related law to protect children wit special needs through this power point presentation.
It is true that it will be hard to make a decision for children with disabilities as a parent. It will be
hard to choose the right things for their children. However, it will be so much easier if parent
understand services under special education, such as IEP, RIT and so on. and how they work.
I hope that my power point presentation will give parents valuable information about special
education and help them to make a good decision for their children.

ADDITIONAL
SOURCES
www.teach.com
www.2.ed.gov
www.understandingspe
cialeducation.com

REFERENCES
What is special education. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://teach.com/what-is-special-education
What are low-incidence disabilities. (2010). Retrieved from http
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Hallahan, P. D., Kauffman, M. J., and Pullen, C. P. (2014).
Exceptional Learners: An Introduction to Special Education. New
York. NY: Pearson.