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Developmental Disabilities

Referral Process

Screening:  Prior to referral for student evaluation, screening for vision, hearing, speech and language functioning are required for all students with referral for complete evaluations where the need is indicated.

Pre-referral:  Prior to referral of a student who has been enrolled in basic education programs for more than 6 weeks, the student's learning problems are addressed at the school level through the procedures included in the General Section, and:

  1. Review of social, psychological, medical, and achievement data in the student's educational records

  2. Review of attendance records, and where appropriate, investigation of reasons for excessive absenteeism

Eligibility

Definition:  A developmental disability is defined as significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. 

Support Services

Students receive instructional support through the special education and related services provided as determined through the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process.  Special education teachers provide:

  1. Instruction in special education including curriculum and learning strategies, independent functioning, social/emotional behavior, and communication.

Skill development through related services including orientation and mobility, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy.

Other instructional support services include:

  1. audiology

  2. counseling provided by qualified personnel

  3. early identification and assessment

  4. medical services to determine medically related disability resulting in the need for special education

  5. parent counseling and training

  6. psychological services

  7. recreation

  8. rehabilitation

  9. school health services

  10. social work

  11. transportation

  12. transition services 

Curriculum

The curriculum for each student with a disability will be determined by the individual education plan (IEP) team and will be initiated with the assumption of access to the general curriculum (Sunshine State Standards) with appropriate accommodations.  The Sunshine State Standards for Special Diploma provide curriculum direction for the modification of the Sunshine State Standards and provide the other educational needs that are unique skills needed by most students with disabilities.  Curriculum decisions reflect progress toward a standard high school diploma for most students with disabilities and progress toward a special diploma for those students with disabilities who need a functional curriculum to address appropriate outcomes.
Students will access the Sunshine State Standards through appropriate programming with support form the special education teacher.  Students will access Sunshine State Standards for Special Diploma as outlined in "Florida Course Description: Exceptional Student Education Education Grades 6-8 and Florida Course Descriptions: Exceptional Student Education Grades 9-12."

Training Opportunities

  • Functional Behavioral Assessment training

  • Reading Strategies

  • Social Skills Training - Project Adventure

  • Classroom Engineering & Programming for the Moderate to Severe Population

  • Wilson Reading System

  • Disability Awareness training

  • Asperger's Syndrome training

  • Peer Pals Training

  • More Alike than Different

  • Communication: A Keystone to Collaboration

  • Disability Awareness & Accommodations for Vocational Courses

  • Training for Parents of Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities

  • The Teacher/Paraprofessional Relationship

  • Procedural Safeguards - Understanding the Rules


            

 

 

 

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