Prepare Folders and Write Summaries

To complete this assignment successfully, you should:

1. Study the assignment carefully
2. Read the corresponding material in the text or workbook.
3. Send notation for each file completed. Remember, if you do not have summary items completed in the one page overview, be sure you do include them in your files.
4. Click here to access response files to let the professor know you are reading the chapters.

Why are we doing this? So you will have these files for your future use in special education classes and in working with youth in the schools. Remember to make them useful for YOU!

Get ten folders and label each with one of the ten service categories from IDEA 1997. You may also wish to add a folder for gifted and another for providing services for students who are considered "at-risk." Develop and print out a description or vignette for each category to place in the front of each folder. Send the description summaries to the instructor via e-mail.

Tear out and complete helpful workbook pages, reflecting ideas from chapters 4 - 16 in the Smith workbook and fill them out. Place each summary in the appropriate folders. Make notes and place additional ideas in the appropriate folders you created as you go along. [If you do one that would be a gift to others in the class and want to share, feel free to access the secret file drawer in WebCT and deposit a copy there - that way Holmes will not tumble to our discrete interconnectedness, but we will gain from your insightfulness and make progress faster as a team.

CLUE: SECRET FILES: In addition to the chapters, there are very special secret files that will make your job easier and point to excellent sources of information on the web. You can access these files from the directory page: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jde7/ese504/class/advanced

Also, you may want to purchase the text to facilitate getting the workbook information. Feel free to talk with others, surf the web and share ideas to make the work more enjoyable.

Required Format for Summary

Definition

List and describe subgroups - i.e. ADD also ADHD

Describe characteristics

Identify causes - i.e. How does this happen?

Identity number of youngsters who need services

List assessments used to recognize the presence of the disability

Are these support groups available?

Provide a continuum of severity or extent possible in youngsters

What does this prevent a child from doing?

Might a child die from this?

Suggest typical age of onset

Impact: Is this a school issue or life issue - Why?

Impact: How does this affect home?

Name of someone who has achieved greatness

Name of a teacher who overcome this or is helping a child overcome it.

What can you do to make a difference for the child?

What can you do to support parents?

E-mail J'Anne Ellsworth at Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu

Course developed by J'Anne Ellsworth

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