TERMINOLOGY

It is educating students in a way that uses specific practices to suit their personal needs, and abilities.

Accommodations are alterations in the way tasks are presented that allow children with a disability to complete the same assignments as other children. Accommodations do not alter the content of assignments, or give students an unfair advantage or in the case of assessments. Accommodations are meant to create an equitable learning environment rather than an equal one. (It is changing HOW the children learn).

Modifications are changes made and added to the curriculum or program provided to special education students, it is simplifying content, and eliminating some parts if needed in a way that suits their abilities (It is changing WHAT the children learn).

An IEP is a tailored plan that describes your child’s present levels of academic achievement and functional skills. These skills include communication, social skills, self-care skills, motor development, language development, and vocational skills.an IEP clearly state annual goals and short term goals, including accommodations and modifications required for each student.

Differentiation involves making changes to instruction to address individual students’ needs and learning styles. Teachers are supposed to differentiate process (The way the curriculum and program are presented, it involves strategies and techniques), content (the curriculum and program) and product (the results of students` achievement, the multiple assessments provided to students). It is using tailored approaches to make sure no students are left behind, and that everyone is served to their maximum potentials and capacity.

Educational interventions are a set of. practices to provide special education students with different types of support they may need on their way to achieve required skills These interventions enhance, academic, cognitive, behavioral,  social , and functional skills, students may need to learn, growth and succeed, and be independent individuals.

Types of Interventions may include:

• Educational Intervention
• Psychological Intervention
• Behavioral Intervention
• Occupational Therapy Intervention
• Cognitive Intervention
• Speech and Language Intervention

Cognitive Therapy is based on the premise that what we think affects our emotions, what we choose to do or avoid, and our physiological reactions. In fact, most situations remain neutral until we assign meaning based on how we interpret the situation. Disabilities affect the way we perceive what happens around us, and accordingly our responses may seem strange, or not understood to people around us.

Occupational therapy is a health care profession aimed at enabling people to live life to its fullest. To occupational therapists, a “full” life means that people become able to engage in the everyday life activities, no matter what the challenges, or the disabilities are. These everyday human activities are what we call “occupations,” and they are the building blocks of our physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual health. Occupational therapists help people to perform, modify, or adapt their skills and activities in order to live healthier, happier, and more productive lives.

Speech and language therapy provides treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing.

Speech and language therapists (SLTs) work with parents, careers and other professionals, such as teachers, nurses, occupational therapists and doctors.

It can be highly beneficial for Special Ed. students. This course contains 10 skills that are seen extremely essential for students with special needs.

1. Self-care: Create rehearse daily routines such as: personal daily hygiene, proper nutrition, exercise, getting dressed, and table manners.
2. Daily Living Skills: Develop practical living skills such as “safety, finding information (reading a map), home care (housecleaning, money skills shopping, etc).
3. Community- Based Instruction: Focus on social skills and safety as students gain experience in different community environments
4. Leisure and Recreational Skills: Encourage and guide students to use their talents as they establish important life skills.
5. Functional Reading: Apply visual communication methods such as recognizing symbols, reading maps and signs, navigating the internet, etc. To help students make important day-to-day choices.
6. Functional Math: Teach students to count money, tell time, manage personal budgets, measure and understand volume, etc.  the target is to improve real-life decision-making skills.
7. Cooking and Laundry skills: Learn and apply more in – depth daily living skills and chores such as cooking and laundry skills.it sets a foundation for self-sufficiency.

Remedial education (also known as developmental education, basic skills education, and academic upgrading) is designed to assist students in order to achieve expected competencies in core academic skills, and subjects such as literacy and numeracy, and other core subjects.

Whereas special education is designed specifically for students with special needs, remedial education can be designed for any students, with or without special needs; the defining trait is simply that they have reached a point of under preparedness, regardless of why. This course is the perfect solutions for any students who feel like being left behind in the classrooms. It is meant to close the gap between the current performance and the desired one.