April 22, 2012
Dr. Yvonne McCastle
IEP meeting for Isabella Hart
My name is Ms. Michelle Yearby and I am the paraprofessional in Mrs. McCastle’s third grade class. I will be presenting information today in this IEP meeting on Isabella Hart, who is a student in Mrs. McCastle’s class. I will give a detailed description of Isabella’s conduct at school and her parents have provided me with a statement o Isabella’s behavior at home. Isabella’s strengths, interests, and areas of improvement will be discussed. There will be a definition of Isabella’s exceptionality and its prevalence given in this report. I will give a reason why Isabella has been given the classification and last I will discuss what is the best educational practices, behavior management, assistive technology, and accommodations used in the classroom to address Isabella’s needs.
Isabella is a good student at school but she becomes very hyper sometimes. Once she completes her assignments she will get up and walk around the classroom. This behavior is very disturbing to some of the other students in the class and I or Mrs. McCastle has to constantly tell her to sit down in her seat. Isabella’s grades are average in all subjects except reading. Her reading level is that of a child in kindergarten. Isabella sometimes talks to herself but rarely does she interact with the other students in the class. Amy, another student in our class often tries to talk with Isabella, if she responds the tone is very low and very hard to hear and some days she does not respond at all. Isabella’s mother, Anna, wrote in her statement that at home Isabella is all over the place and constantly bothers things in the house. She has noticed that when Isabella is sitting on the computer or watching television she rocks back and forth in a repeated motion. When Isabella talks she does stutter and Anna believes this is the reason why she does not talk to other children because she is