Launching Special Education2015-2016

What’s new?

1.Teachers

2.Programs and Positions

3.Special Education Elementary Instructional

Support Teacher

4.Dyslexia Law

5.Updates to Restraint and Seclusion Law

6.45 day timeline

Programs and Positions

OASIS has the support of Effective School Solutions (ESS) at WWMS

MHS has a model of tiered behavior supports, one of them being a program with Effective School Solutions as a collaborative Partner

Special Education Elementary Support Instruction Teacher (SPEIST)- Katie Seifert will be providing PD and coaching in assessment, IEPs, programming and instructional coaching, analyzing SRBI data as well as facilitating monthly collaboration meetings (voluntary).

Dyslexia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafiGBrFkRM

WHAT IT ISN’T DYSLEXIA IS …

NOT A VISUAL PROBLEM

NOT A LACK OF INTELLIGENCE

NOT DUE TO LACK OF EFFORT

NOT RESPONSIVE TO STANDARD READING

INSTRUCTION

NOT UNCOMMON – 5 – 17.5 %

OF POPULATION

NOT A DEVELOPMENTAL LAG.

Public Act14-39 An Act Establishing the Office of Early childhood, Expanding Opportunities

for Early Childhood Education and Concerning Dyslexia and Special Education

• Is a Specific Learning Disability/ Neurobiological in Origin

Impacts Reading• Decoding• Accurate Word Recognition• Fluent Word Recognition• Spelling• Is Unexpected and/or Inconsistent with Student’s Other Abilities

• Persists Despite the Provision of Appropriate Instruction

• Results from Significant Deficits in Phonological Processing (dyslexia-phonemic awareness, phonics and processing)

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These children we have referred to as “reading disabled” or “dyslexic”

A new science based definition --

“Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction.”

(Lyon & Shaywitz, 2003)

Dyslexia, and Other Things that Make it Difficult to Learn to Read Proficiently by Dr. Joseph K. Torgesen Florida State University and Florida Center for Reading Research

TYPICAL LANGUAGE ACTIVATION AREAS

SPEECHPRODUCTIONAREA

AUDITORYPROCESSINGAREA

VISUAL-LANGUAGEASSOCIATION AREA

VISUAL /VERBALAREA

LEFT HEMISPHERE

TYPICAL READING ACTIVATION AREAS

LEFT HEMISPHERE

WORD ANALYSISWORD ANALYSIS

AUTOMATIC(SIGHT WORD)

Strong activation pattern

Weak activation pattern

BRAIN ACTIVATION WITH READING

“SIGNATURE” BRAIN, Shaywitz, 2005

Simos, Fletcher, Bergman, et al 2002

BACKOF LEFTBRAIN

BACK

OF

RIGHT

BRAIN

Possible Developmental Manifestation of Dyslexia

• Language development not to be confusedwith Speech/Language disability in phonological processing• Comprehension• Written Language• Fluency• Encoding

So, what are some red flags we should be aware

of?

Red Flags Pre-k May talk later than most children May have difficulty with rhyming May have difficulty pronouncing words (i.e.,

busgetti for spaghetti, mawn lower for lawn mower)

May have poor auditory memory for nursery rhymes and chants

May be slow to add new vocabulary words May be unable to recall the right wordMay have trouble learning numbers, days of the

week, colors, shapes, and how to spell and write his or her name

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Red Flags K-3Fails to understand that words come apart; for

example, that snowman can be pulled apart into snow and man and, later on, that the word man can be broken down still further and sounded out as /m/ /ă/ /n/

Has difficulty learning the letter names and their corresponding sounds

Has difficulty decoding single words (reading single

words in isolation)Has difficulty spelling phoneticallyReads dysfluently (choppy and labored)Relies on context to recognize a word

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Red Flags 4-12Has a history of reading and spelling difficultiesAvoids reading aloud Reads most materials slowly; oral reading is

labored, not fluent Avoids reading for pleasureMay have an inadequate vocabulary Has difficulty spelling; may resort to using less

complicated words in writing that are easier to spell

Sources for Common Evidence of Dyslexia:Common Signs, (n.d.). Retrieved July 10, 2006, from The International Dyslexia Association Web site.Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science‐Based Program (Shaywitz, 2003)

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Screening and Assessment

Screening for Dyslexia

• Brief

• Assess Specific Skills Highly correlated with a broader indicator of Reading Achievement

• Purpose is to identify students likely to be in need of interventionSERC ‐ 3/12/2015 serc.info/sldwebinar2015

Screening for Dyslexia

Letter Naming Fluency Phonological Awareness Skills Letter Sound Identification Single Word Decoding Rapid Naming Oral Reading Fluency Encoding Reading Comprehension Handwriting*

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What screening tools do we have within Middletown?

Letter Naming Fluency = AimsWeb (LNF)

Phonological Awareness Skills = Phonological Awareness Skills Test

Letter Sound Identification = Quick Phonics Screener, WADE, Gallistel-Ellis Test of Coding Skills, AimsWeb (LSF)

Single Word Decoding = Quick Phonics Screener, WADE, CORE, Gallistel-Ellis Test of Coding Skills , AimsWeb (NWF)

Rapid Naming = We are currently looking into this

Oral Reading Fluency = AimsWeb (ORF)

Encoding = WADE, Gallistel-Ellis Test of Coding Skills

Reading Comprehension = NWEA, F & P

Menu of Research-based Grade K-3 Universal Screening Reading Assessments

July 2014

http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/curriculum/cali/elementary_assessments_4-9-12.pdf

Augmenting Existing Frameworks

Targeting very specific areas-screening protocols to consider:

Red Flag Checklist

CORE Phonological Segmentation Test (K‐1)

CORE Phoneme Deletion Test (K‐3)

CORE Phonics Survey (K‐8)

Words Their Way Spelling Inventory: Elementary (1‐3)

• Phonological Awareness Skills Test (PAST)*

• Quick Phonics Screener*

• Gallistel-Ellis Test of Coding Skills*

Dyslexia: A Formal EvaluationShould Include …

Assessment of “red flag” areas (i.e., address specific referral questions)

Focused assessments of component language and reading abilities

Input from an interdisciplinary team (e.g., speech and language; special education; reading; assistive technology, school psychology)

OSEP has taken the position that a district cannot go back and conduct evaluations that it did not do because a parent requests an IEE.

Dyslexia: Formal Evaluation

• Developmental History Review of Educational Records to include medical/family history

• Classroom Observations• Review of Formal and Informal

Assessment Results• LD Multidisciplinary Composite

form

The Difference Between a Reading Disability & Dyslexia

Dyslexia

specialized term for a specific set of traits in the reading process that falls under the general category of specific learning disability in reading

Reading Disability

generic term for a specific learning disability in areas of basic reading skills, reading comprehension and reading fluency

SLI & Dyslexia

Dyslexia & SLI are distinct conditions but can co-occur

Early signs of dyslexia and SLI may be similar in some young children

Possible delays in speakingArticulation errors may be presentDifficulty with rhyming and

phonological/phonemic awarenessDifficulty with word retrieval; imprecise

language Development of Language and Literacy: Typical Milestones and Childhood Language Disorders by: Krista Stangel Graduate Student Clinician - MS SLP and Lucas Steuber MA Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Clinician - MS SLP

Reading is individually tailored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkiAFRQ-mKc

Updates to the Restraint/Seclusion Law

Important Changes:

Thus, even if seclusion is currently included in a student’s IEP, effective July 1, 2015

that aspect of the IEP may not be implemented.  Although we urge school districts to

amend IEPs and behavior plans as soon as possible to remove seclusion references, it is important that staff is informed that the state law will preempt the IEP and behavior plan.

Therefore, this is an exception to the general rule that an IEP must be followed until it is amended.

This legislation is applicable to public school students in grades K-12; students receiving special education in a facility by way of a contract with a board of education; students receiving special education from a regional education service center; and students receiving special education from an approved private special education school.  

Schools retain the right to use both physical restraint and seclusion as emergency interventions to prevent immediate or imminent injury to the student or others, but seclusion may not be part of a student’s special education program.

References UNLOCKING DYSLEXIA IDA 2007 www.TheMorrisCenter.com

Dyslexia, and Other Things that Make it Difficult to Learn to Read Proficiently by Dr. Joseph K. Torgesen Florida State University and Florida Center for Reading Research

Catts, H. W., Adlof, S. M., Hogan, T. P., & Weismer, S. E. (2005). Are specific language impairment and dyslexia distinct disorders? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 1378-1396.

Bartlett, Christopher W., Brzustowicz, Linda M., Flax, Judy F., Hirsch, Linda S., Realpe-Bonilla, Teresa, & Tallal, Paula (June 2003). Specific Language Impairment in Families: Evidence for Co-Occurrence With Reading Impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 530-540.

Development of Language and Literacy: Typical Milestones and Childhood Language Disorders by: Krista Stangel Graduate Student Clinician - MS SLP and Lucas Steuber MA Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Clinician - MS SLP