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What is Child Find

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A public outreach awareness system to locate and identify children thought to be eligible for special education

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Rehabilitation Act of 1973

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  • Civil rights legislation
  • Section 504
  • Major life activities
  • Reasonable accommodations
  • PA Regulations
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Cedar Rapids v. Garret F 1999

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Needed nursing assistance

Non physician health services need to be provided

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History of Special Education

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Standardized tests
New professional fields
Medical advances
Technological advances

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IDEA Principles

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Child find
IEP
Nondiscriminatory evaluation
Shared decision making 
LRE
FAPE
Related services 
Assistive technology 
Supplementary aids and services 
Confidentiality 
Procedural Safegaurds
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FERPA

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Family Education Rights & Privacy Act

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

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Originally ESEA
Accountability
Highly qualified teachers
Assessments 
AYP
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Framework for Teaching by Charlotte Danielson

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A comprehensive and coherent framework that identifies those aspects of a teacher’s responsibilities
“Validated”

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Multiple Measure of Teacher Effectiveness - observation and evidence

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Planning and preparation
Classroom environment
Instruction
Professional responsibilities

*4 domains

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Initial Level Knowledge and Skill Sets

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Individualized Common Core (ICC)
Individualized General Education Curricula (IGEC)
Learning Disabilities (LD)

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Initial Level Content Standards

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  1. Fountains
  2. Development and Characteristics of Learners
  3. Instructional Strategies
  4. Individual Learning Difference
  5. Learning Environments and Social Interactions
  6. Language
  7. Instructional Planning
  8. Assessment
  9. Professional and Ethnical Practice
  10. Collaboration
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Indicators suggesting the presence of a disability

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Rate of progress not what is expected
Level of performance discrepant from peers
Physical/health conditions affecting educational performance
Behavior adversely affects educational performance
Response to classroom accommodations not successful

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Homelessness

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McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
Continue in school in which last enrolled 
Enroll immediately 
Provide transportation
Provide educational services 
*involve community agency
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McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act

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Remove barriers and provide access

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Prerefferal Intervention Questions

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What are the needs?
Can the needs be helped?
Does the student need special education?

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Pre-referral Invention

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Avoid premature referral special education
Building-based teams
RTI

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Type of Teams

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Multidisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
Transdisciplinary
Collaborative - most interaction

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Protections in Evaluations

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No single procedure 
Variety of assessment tools
Test instruments 
Not racially/culturally diverse 
Students native language
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Oral vs Written Request - ERF/RRF

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Consent if they agree

Written if no

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Procedural safeguard notice not enclosed

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Revaluation consent form

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PTE Consent Form

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60 calendar days from when request to when parents receive form

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PTR Consent Form

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60 calendar days from when public agency receive the form from parent to when parents receive report

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PTE EPF

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10 calendar days from when parents mention evaluation to when the school district sends form CF follows ERF/RRF by how many days
*reasonable amount of time * a week

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Parent choices upon receipt of PTE CF

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Yes
No
Meeting

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Embedded procedural safeguard

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Member of team, 60 days

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Informed consent

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Notice of rights to parents

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Independent education evaluations

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Must be taken into consideration when planning educational programs
Parent or district expense
*District-provided criteria
Appropriateness of district evaluation

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Consent

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Written parental consent REQUIRED for initial evaluations

*go to hearing if parents refuse consent

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How many times can revaluations

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Not more than 1 per year
Every 3 years, ID every 2 years
*without consent

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Evaluation Bias

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Race
Poverty
Limited English Proficiency

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Key of IDEA

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IEP

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IEP Documents Contents

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Starting/Ending dates
Present levels 
Annual goals
SDI
SAS
Related services 
Supports
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IEP Meeting

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Within 30 days of parent receipt of evaluation report at least annually

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D.S. And A.S. v. Bayonne Board of Education

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Grades in regular education were not equilavant to grades in special education

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Florence County School District Four v. Carter 1993

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Parents of child with SLD. Objected to an IEP that established goals in reading and math for 4 months progress for the whole year

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Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA)

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Civil rights legislation 
Employment 
Transportation
Business 
Communication
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Section 504

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PA Regulations

Can’t discriminate against disability under federal financial assistance

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Advanced Content Standards

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  1. Leadership and Policy
  2. Program Development and Organization
  3. Research and Inquiry
  4. Individual and Program Evaluation
  5. Professional Development and Ethical Practice
  6. Collaboration
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PVAAS Growth

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3 to 8

Value added year to year

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Board of Education of the Hendricks Hudson Central School District v. Rowley 1982

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Personalizing instruction doesn’t have to the best instruction

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IEP Team memeber

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Parents 
Special educator 
General educator 
Rep of public agency 
Any other related services 
Child when of age
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Child can be on the IEP at what age according to PA Regulations

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Child can be on IEP Team at what age according to Federal Law

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Consent must be…

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Requested before beginning the reevaluation

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Schaefer v. Weast 2005

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If parent brings the charge, they speak first

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Armstrong v Kline 1979

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Extended school year programs begin

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FAPE

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Free Appropriate Public Education
-An educational right of children with disabilities I the United States that is guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and IDEA

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School psychologist is included in evaluation when the child with the disability has…

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Autism
EBD
ID
Multiple Disabilities 
OHI
SLD
TBI
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Order of how child is evaluated

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  1. Student difficulty achieving
  2. RTI
  3. Referral
  4. Determine multidisciplinary team make-up
  5. Consent
  6. Complete evaluations
  7. Protections in evaluations
  8. Disability is present
  9. Need for SDI established
  10. Identification of disability category
  11. Evaluation report completed
  12. Evaluation report to parents

5-12 within 60 calendar days*

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13 categories under IDEA

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Autism
Deaf-blindness
Deafness
Emotional Disturbance
Hearing Impairment 
Intellectual Disability 
Multiple Disabilities 
Orthopedic Impairment 
OHI
SLD
Speech & language impairment 
TBI
Visual Impairment/Blindness
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Timothy W. V. Rochester School District 1989

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The parent of a severely disabled child appealed court ruling that held the school was not obligated to provide special education to a child who was severely disabled that he was not capable of benefiting from special education

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Honig v. Doe 1988

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Supreme Court stated that when the actions of the student or hazardous to the student and to the others, could attempt to obtain court orders that would allow schools to remove students from education placement on a temporary basis.

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Screening

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To determine appropriate instructional strategies for curriculum implementation shall not be considered to be in an evaluation for eligibility for special education and related services.