Overrepresentation in Special Education: Slide 3 Review of the Literature: Slide 4 Review of the Literature: Slide 5 Review of the Literature: Slide 6 Statistics of Overrepresentation: Slide 7 Statistics of Overrepresentation: Slide 8 Statistics of Overrepresentation: Slide 9 Strategies for Improvement: Slide 10 References: Slide 11 Questions or Comments: Slide 12 Overrepresentation in special education is when more minority students eligible for receiving special education services than white students
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Proposition 27: Special prosecution units do not produce either higher conviction rates or lower crime rates According to the data that Walker has cited‚ special prosecution units have not produced different results from regular prosecution teams. The data that Walker cited came from a San Diego‚ CA prosecutorial office. However‚ in an article published by the National Institute of Justice in the Office of Justice Programs‚ the data leads to a different conclusion. In Cook County‚ Illinois
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Teaching Strategies for Special Populations Felicia Adams Santos HCA 331 Prof. Amy Daly June 20‚ 2011 The things we do as health professionals happens to be a never ending job. That’s because there will always be a patient to educate and help them become their own self care agent. One of the many things we teach is either how to maintain their health or restore it. We also have to reach out to the families of the patients because they have
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college more affordable for everyone.Hillary Clinton has been quoted saying.’’The most we’ve ever paid is like 17%...I think that’s one of the reasons why you don’t have the services and the support that your students need to be able to get the education they deserve...there are two big areas of federal funding that I feel strongly about.One‚is the special education funding‚and the other is Title 1 funding‚which is the equalization of funding for poor schools...American families are drowning in debt caused
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Computers and educational technology can be powerful tools for assisting children with special needs and disabilities. Computers can help children with attention deficit disorders focus more effectively on their learning tasks and can also assist autistic children by improving their communications and interactions with peers as they use computers together. This topic became very important to me when my cousin was born deaf. He is only three now but the assistive technology that awaits him during
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Dec 2008 How do I become a Special Needs Assistant? Special Needs Assistants. Job Description Special Needs Assistants are recruited specifically to assist schools in providing the necessary non–teaching services to pupils with assessed educational needs. Their duties are assigned by the Principal acting on behalf of the Board of Management. Their work is supervised either by the Principal or another teacher as determined by the Principal. Those duties involve tasks of a non-teaching nature
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Jeffery only reads on about a fourth-grade level. Jeffrey met the eligibility to receive special education services and was classified as having a learning disability. According an article Special Education 101‚ “Half of all special education students are learning disabled. An estimated 80-90 percent have reading problems” (Kafer 2002). The processes and procedures to be followed after the identification of Jeffrey’s disability include developing an Individualized Education Program (IEP)‚ placement
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Disproportionality in Special Education has been a longstanding and frustrating problem across the county since its creation in 1975 with the signing of Public Law 94-142 by President Gerald Ford. Of the groups and degree studied‚ the most attention has been given to the overrepresentation of African-Americans‚ particularly in the categories of Emotional Disturbance and Mental Retardation. However‚ a group and degree studied much less frequently is the underrepresentation of Asian-Americans in Special Education
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Special Issues Megan Huff COM/100 January 19‚ 2015 LaVette Burnette Special Issues “I ’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other‚ and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they ’re interested in. – Bill Gates” (Brainy Quote‚ 2015). Communication is more than just speaking with other individuals in order to get a point across. Nonverbal communication is also a big part of how individual’s points are taken
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State of Special Education in the Philippines With the “zero reject” policy‚ any parent can enroll their children in public schools – even SPED pupils. Unfortunately‚ not all public schools in the country has a SPED center‚ or at least a SPED program. “Every school should have a program for SPED‚ kasi lahat ng bata‚ makikita mo sa lahat ng eskwelahan ‚” Department of Education (DepEd) SPED division chief Mirla Olores. Citing an estimate from the World Health Organization‚ Olores said children with
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