Anaebela Case Study

A Special Education Plan for Anabela

In the case of Anabela Vicenti, supporting her may mean holding her back.
Anabela is a second grader at La Paz Elementary School, who a few months ago was placed into special services in the school and received an IEP (individualized education plan). Before La Paz, she attended Sandia Elementary School where she was classified as a non-reader at the end of kindergarten because she did not know all of her letters and sounds. She was recommended for educational testing and possibly retention but did not receive either. Her mother Magda, her father Gaspar and her grandfather Arturo, supports her at home and in school she mainly interacts with Connie York the teacher in the resource room. One of the biggest issues in this case study is the lack of communication and relationships between the parents, teachers and Anabela. Sandia Elementary School seems to have created a lack of trust among the family because it did not Anabela the attention that she was in desperate need
It is easy to understand why the teachers are so frustrated because the parents have not been making enough of an effort to attend all of the meetings, but they still need to find a way to communicate with them. If the teachers are more aware about the home life of their student, they may be more understanding as to why the parents are not always able to attend the meetings but surprising parents with the idea of retention if it has not been brought up in any meetings before is going to cause them a lot of stress. This lack of communication is kind of the fault of both the parents and the teachers. If neither party steps up and takes leadership in this situation by organizing other ways to communicate, the child is going to continue to