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Special Education Assessment/Therapy
What is Special Education?
Special education aims to support students with various disabilities like physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges. It’s all about support for all kinds of students with disabilities. The process help the children, achieve to their maximum potential by encouraging the strengths and working on the deficit skills through individually planned and systematically monitored teaching procedures, using specific teaching-learning material, accessible settings, adapted aids and modified educational plans.
Why Special Education?
Differentiated education is a modified form of the basic education program, meaning that the same material is covered yet in a different way. Through differentiation, material is broken down in line with the students’ needs depending on the difficulties the child needs to overcome in order to effectively learn.
Aims of Special Education
The purpose of this education is to empower every child. It provides help to children like a superpower. Following are some of these essential roles:
- Making Learning Accessible
- Tailoring Learning
- Growing Independence
- Making Friends And Feeling Great
Who requires Special Education?
Children facing:
- Learning problems, like specific learning disabilities
- Communication problems, like speech/language impairments
- Emotional and behavioral disorders, like ADHD
- Physical Disabilities like CP, Muscular dystrophy, Ataxia, etc
- Developmental Disabilities, like, Intellectual Disabilities, Autism, hearing impairment etc and many more benefits from specially designed and modified way of teaching procedures/ strategies in special education.
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How Special Education works
- The child is initially assessed for present level of functioning in the core areas of development like ADL’s, Speech & Language, Motor skills, Cognitive Development, Social-Emotional Development, etc, and Specific Individualized plan is devised to work on building the deficit skills through specialized strategies.
Assessment:
An assessment in special education is the process used to determine a child’s specific learning strengths and needs, and to determine whether or not a child is eligible for special education services. Special Education support goes beyond what is normally offered or received in the regular school/classroom setting. Thus, Special Education not only takes care of academic education but helps in different areas of cognitive development to improve quality of life of a child. The Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for the child takes care of the individual needs and education of the child in the following areas:
- Attention
- Imitation
- Communication
- Social Development
- Cognitive Development
- Challenging Behaviors
- Sensory And Motor Development
- Adaptive Behavior
- Recreation/Leisure/Physical Education
Children services:
Special education services are designed to address each student’s individual differences and needs to improve cognitive and academic skills.
We at Happy speaking, provide remedial services for children with academic issues. In one-to-one sessions, the special education teacher has the opportunity to provide more intense support to help develop the child’s personal-social, adaptive, and cognitive skills.
Educational plans are developed based on evaluation results and strategies and techniques are developed to meet the goals and objectives. Teachers also design and implement behavior modification programs.
Special education services can be given to children with:
- Cerebral Palsy
- Autism
- ADHD
- Down Syndrome
- Specific Learning Disabilities like Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia
- Learning Difficulties
- Hearing Impairments
- Intellectual Disability