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Special Education Legal Alert

By Perry A. Zirkel

© May 2021

This month’s update identifies recent court decisions respectively illustrating (a) the statute of limitations and substantive FAPE standard under the IDEA, and (b) the alternative of Fourteenth Amendment and Section 504/ADA claims for students with disabilities.  For related information about these various issues, see perryzirkel.com

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    • A Family Guide to Participating in the Child Outcomes Measurement Process
    • Comic Books Series Turned into Videos for Children
    • How to Spot Depression in Young Children
    • Why Inclusion? Video Series
    • CDC Updates and Adds to Child Care Provider Guidance on COVID-19
    • ED Covid-19 Handbook: Roadmap to Reopening Safely and Meeting All Students’ Needs
    • Relationship Building: A Strategy Guide for Educators
    • Webinar and Podcast | Developing Data-Driven Equity Practices and Partnerships
    • Webinar | Guidance for State and Local Leaders on Flexible Options to Increase and Support the Special Education Pipeline

     

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    Why the Need for Technology Supported Education for Students with ASD

    By Nicole Broderick

     

    Abstract

    There are many areas in which people on the autism spectrum struggle with that affect daily living, such as communication skills, fine motor skills, and executive functioning skills. While therapy and educational interventions definitely have a helping hand in the development of these skills, studies have shown the impact technology has on these children that surpass those caused by other people due to their natural inclination to it (Porayska-Pomsta et al 2011).  Additionally, the changes that may occur in these students during in person interventions, such as the appearance of appropriate behavior and disappearance of inappropriate behavior, is usually based on prompts and reinforces, diminishing the independence of these students. (Corina Jimenez-Gomez et al.)

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    Purposeful Preparation of Preservice Special Education Teachers for Connecting and Working with Families: A Review of Literature

    By Reilly Hinds

     

    Abstract

    The goal of educating future educators is to instruct the student and help them learn to the best of their abilities. However, communication is needed with the family to help the student learn and interact with academic and social content. Providing preservice special education teachers with the tools and opportunities needed to navigate communication and collaboration with families is often limited. Before entering a full-time position, these educators need to know how to respect a family’s culture, have effective communication habits, and be able to provide meaningful connections to the broader community that surrounds the school and its students. This provides a solid foundation to base the rest of student educator curriculum on and gives ample opportunity to interact with one’s own views before delving deeper into another’s.

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    Using Visual Supports and Schedules to Ease Transitions and Create Independence

    By Austyn Johnson

    Abstract

    Visual supports and schedules provide a way for communication and aids students with information that works to allow them to process an expectation, message or task to be completed. Visual supports and schedules also aim to provide and encourage students to complete task with limited assistance from others. The idea that Visual supports and schedules can work to prepare students to be able to be independent and work to complete task that they may come across in daily life. However, the use of these visual supports and schedules has been shown to greatly improve the independence with students with disabilities. These visual supports can also work to reduce anxiety and improve communication and participation in tasks. It is key to be able identify that as educators’ ways that we can support our students with Autism as they transition through their daily life or through their learning growth.

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    Family Interventions for Aggressive Behaviors in Children with Disabilities

    Introduction

    Some individuals with disabilities, more commonly those that are moderate to severe in nature, engage in behaviors that are so challenging that they carry the potential to cause significant harm to themselves or to others. These behaviors include self-injury, aggression, property destruction, pica, etc. In fact, up to 14% of preschoolers engage in moderate to severe problem behaviors and more than half of those children continue to have significant problem behaviors five years later. This is especially the case for children with autism who have impaired social and communication skills, which put them at a greater risk for developing problem behaviors that lead to even greater familial stress. In addition, the incidence of severe self-injury among children with a severe intellectual disability is at 5% with persistence at 60% (Singh et al., 2006). A very common risk factor for self-injurious behaviors includes medical problems such as unidentified pain. Impulsivity, stereotyped behavior, sleep disorders, and anxiety are also leading causes of why children with disabilities may engage in severe self-injury (Oliver et al., 2017).

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      Book Review: Hacking Leadership: 10 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Learning That Teachers, Students, and Parents Love

      By Yariana Bushman

      The key to being a successful leader is to "be like water," so say school district superintendent Joe Sanfelippo and school principal Tony Sinasis in their book Hacking Leadership: 10 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Learning That Teachers, Students, and Parents Love. Sanfelippo & Sinasis are self-proclaimed education hackers that strive to solve problems with right-now solutions. Their message is simple, a school leader's objective must be to remove barriers and transform perceived problems into opportunities and possibilities for all stakeholders (Sanfelippo & Sinasis, 2016, p.13).

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        Book Review: Lead Like A Pirate

        Roxana Fleneury

         

         “And now you can create a culture where the best parts of education are the norm for your entire crew and the students you serve.” (xii) The book’s design is presented in an incredibly motivating and inspirational manner of improving schools. Instead of using the typical monotone found in self-help books, Lead Like a Pirate, has enthusiasm that can be experienced with its writing and illustrations. The purpose of this book is to improve school culture through an administrator’ leadership. For administrators to create a positive school culture, Burgess and Houf set a group of expectations as a framework for administrators to follow. Improving school culture compliments other leadership books such as Fullan’s (2020) Leading in a Culture of Change because both believe that changing the school culture can lead to student and staff success. The thesis of this book focuses on motivational leadership to achieve a dynamically positive school culture for both staff and students.

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          Book Review: Leadership

          By Altrese T. Mays

           

          Tracy, Brian. Leadership. New York: AMACOM, 2014. 106 pp. $9.95.

          “One of the major reasons people go to work for any organization is because of the leadership” (p. 2). In Brian Tracy’s selected book from his “Brian Tracy Success Library”, he uses this piece to further help leaders take the lead within their working environment. The purpose of this book “is to enable you to become a leader-and if you already are the leader, enable you to become a more effective leader” (p. 8). Brian expands this notion by focusing his thesis on expressing ways to be a leader within their field and believes “If you practice the ideas and techniques that this book has talked about and you repeat theme over and over again, then you will create a clear mental picture of yourself as a leader and you will inevitably become the leader that you dream of being” (p. 100). Simply put, Brian states different ways, ideas, and avenues to become and maintain the leadership role through characteristics such as courage and loyalty, abilities, principles, planning, laws such as the Law of Cause and Effect, and setting a clear mission to thrive to encourage others.

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            Acknowledgements

            Portions of this or previous month’s NASET’s Special Educator e-Journal were excerpted from:

            • Center for Parent Information and Resources
            • Committee on Education and the Workforce
            • FirstGov.gov-The Official U.S. Government Web Portal
            • Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals (JAASEP)
            • National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
            • National Institute of Health
            • National Organization on Disability
            • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
            • U.S. Department of Education
            • U.S. Department of Education-The Achiever
            • U.S. Department of Education-The Education Innovator
            • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
            • U.S. Department of Labor
            • U.S. Food and Drug Administration
            • U.S. Office of Special Education

              The National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) thanks all of the above for the information provided for this or prior editions of the Special Educator e-Journal


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