eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. schoolchildren commonly receive special education services.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

This increase–driven by improved identification and diagnosis, heightened awareness, advocacy, and broader definitions of disabilities–presents substantial challenges for school districts. Persistent teacher shortages and the cost and time required to fill special education roles often exacerbate the strain.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. 20k+ per year).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This story on data privacy in special education originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Protecting the data of students with disabilities is crucial for several reasons. Small Language Models Educators could utilize technology from Microsoft or Google to build a Small Language Model.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2015

44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both. If schools are to meet the learning needs of every student, including those with disabilities, then “we have to think differently about how we provide instruction,” Hill said. Haynes High School in Washington, D.C., million children in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

A third challenge resulting from the pandemic has been how teachers should address the rapidly evolving requirements for remote learning—from what goals to teach to, to logging instructional hours, addressing absenteeism and cataloging evidence of learning—for their students with special education needs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2015

This new case highlights a particularly controversial subject in an era where more colleges and K-12 schools are making lectures available online and developing related content that may not always be accessible to students with disabilities. Next page: Getting Onboard with Accessibility.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Now, the certified academic language therapist and licensed dyslexia teacher at Griffis Elementary School in Caddo Mills (Texas) is leading the way in using technology to help some of her dyslexic students develop a love for reading. Leslie Patterson said she knew nothing about dyslexia when she first became an elementary school teacher.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. Serving as the cornerstone of special education ( Yell et al., under review ).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Office of Special Education Programs has awarded a five-year, $2.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

Originally students were provided special education services based on the discrepancy model. A significant discrepancy between expected and actual achievement resulted in placement in special education services. Special education services often included classes separate from the regular classroom.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. How did we get here?

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2020

During this launch month, Capstone is offering a special Educator Preview to all educators who want to explore the new resource for free. AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), ensuring it’s accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. There are different types of learning environments that serve students with special needs.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

HearBuilder is used in Preschool and Elementary School, Response to Intervention (RTI), Title 1, English language learner, Head Start, and Homeschool settings. Not only can you monitor progress, it lets you increase and decrease difficulties of the activities within the program. About Super Duper Publications.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Accessibility is a “critical key” when it comes to leveraging technology for all students — including those with disabilities, according to a new toolkit offering accessibility resources and tips for state and district education leaders.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Texthelp , a global leader in literacy and accessibility technology, today announced that they will acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc., a leading assistive technology and special education curriculum company based outside of Chicago, IL. WOBURN, Mass.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2015

No longer a new concept, early flipped learning adoptees are now starting to transform the model to suit their needs and into something that can be useful for instructing a variety of student populations, including those students with special needs. 44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. How did we get here?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

By taking a data-driven approach to individual IEP development and review, leaders can, with suitable systems, aggregate IEP data to look at ways they can better serve students with disabilities as a whole. Educators can then shift their focus from compliance and record keeping to improving student outcomes.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2016

The now-closed website APPitic.com, which curated apps from Apple Distinguished Educators, suggested a number of apps pertaining to special education, communication, and helping students with autism. Here are 5 apps to help children and adults with autism develop skills, learn, and interact better with others.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

.” A nationwide survey of schools reported special education teacher vacancies were nearly twice that of other subject areas, with 65% of public schools in the US reporting being understaffed in special education. More than 78% reported difficulty in hiring special education staff. Yet more than 7.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. We asked the same questions to more than 1,000 special educators and they added feeling exhausted, frustrated and confused. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 80 percent of students with learning disabilities have dyslexia. She is currently pursuing certification as an academic language therapist. Terrie has trained groups numbering in the thousands helping to build better understanding of working with struggling readers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

With Black students not even scoring half of the overall percentage, we’ve just gotten a sign to ring the alarm on equity in science education. This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist. Hearing and understanding what is being said in the classroom play a crucial role in a student’s speech and language development, reading and spelling ability, attention and concentration, and overall academic achievement. Listen and Learn. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. 20k+ per year).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs. D, SVP, Special Education – Behavior, Specialized Education Services, Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. I was ecstatic.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

In today’s educational landscape, the emphasis on inclusion and creating the least restrictive environments for students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) has significantly reshaped classroom dynamics.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

students enrolled in special education programs rose 30 percent. In fact, the National Education Association found nearly every general classroom across the country includes at least one student with a disability. Thu, 09/05/2019 - 10:38. Over the past 10 years, the number of U.S. FM Systems Help Students Stay Engaged.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In other words: no world language program = no diploma. World Languages Maine is a large—and largely rural—state, with a dwindling student population. World languages have been some of the most difficult positions to fill, yet they are a requirement for earning a proficiency-based diploma. Special Education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. 2022 will be the year of decision making for K-12 educators. Literacy and Curriculum, Certified Academic Language Therapist C.A.L.T

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

Engagement Video brings together two things that the written word can’t: body language and tone of voice. Video For All Traditional teaching methods—such as standing in front of the classroom— often ignore students with special needs. Here are five ways video can have a powerful impact on teaching and learning: 1.

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