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Prepare Folders and Write Summaries

To complete this assignment successfully, you should:

  1. Study the readings and secret files carefully
  2. Respond with an appropriate summary
  3. Fill in your Name and Email address
  4. Send the Assignment
  5. arrowClick here to access response files.

 

Get ten folders and label each with one of the ten service categories [i.e. Hearing impaired, LD, EBD] from IDEA 1997. You may also wish to add a folder for gifted and another for providing services to students who are considered "at-risk" Develop and print out a one page description of each category to place in the front of individual folders. Send each description summary to the instructor when completed. The following is an example, but you may change it to meet your own requirements.

Suggested 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?



Read chapters 4 - 12 in the Smith text and certify completion of the readings. The following is a list of readings in that text: Chapters 4 - 12; Chapter 14 ; with special emphasis on Chapter sub-topics are found troughout the book.

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:

Make notes and place ideas in the appropriate folders you created. Now place notes and ideas from the readings in the appropriate folders as you begin to build a directory of ideas and materials for successfully teaching and caring for students by implementing IDEA 97 as a teacher. Send each description summary to the instructor. [If you do one that would be a gift to others in the class and want to share, feel free to let me know I can send it to your peers via email- that way Holmes will not tumble to our discrete interconnectedness, but we will gain from your insightfulness and make progress faster as a team.

Remember, you can print this form to keep a copy handy. Also, you can copy the table, put it in a program and then print it for future reference.


1. Description Summary for Each Folder


For grading purposes, please provide the following information:

Your Name:
Your Email address:

Once you have filled in the areas above, click the Send button below to send your response to the instructor.

  

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


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