eSchool News

MAY 3, 2024

The first step in achieving this was continuing to leverage our on-campus experts.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

PresenceLearning, the leading provider of live online special education related services for K-12 schools, today announced a new partnership with the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE). We have long valued CASE’s dedication to educating and innovating with members of the special education community.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Special education was one of the areas hit hardest, with 45 percent of schools needing to fill positions. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 37,600 yearly openings for special education teachers over the next decade. Unfortunately, this trend is expected to continue, as the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

residents who speak a language other than English at home. I talk to a lot of parents, both as a parent myself and in my work advocating for language services. What I hear is that while public, magnet, and charter schools are legally required to offer language services, schools simply aren’t using interpreters as much as they should.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

The study’s positive, statistically significant findings support a relationship between SPIRE progress and improved literacy skills for special education students. The program incorporates evidence-based best practices for reading and language development.

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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

APRIL 25, 2025

Personalized learning and student resources are the focus in the Ottawa Catholic School Board , where teachers use Gemini to give students differentiated experiences for needs such as special education, English as a second language (ESL) and advanced learners.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2015

In rural southern Mississippi, finding enough qualified speech-language professionals to fully serve a growing population of students with speech and language delays can be problematic. News Online Learning Special Education Top News' Stone County School District in Wiggins, Miss.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

The program exposed her to strategies for working with children with special needs, which she is now applying both at home and in her new role as a certified teacher assistant at the Kennedy Children’s Center , a public special education preschool in New York City.

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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

JULY 27, 2022

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are greater than a million aides working in K-12 schools nationwide, with a meaningful subset focused on supporting special education delivery. Paraprofessionals are particularly essential in special education.

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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. From body systems and safety to self-awareness and relationships, PebbleGo Health helps students learn functional health information and develop foundational health skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Four years ago, my team and I designed, planned, and implemented a research-based, whole-child wraparound approach to special education. This whole-child wraparound model is even more critical now that students and educators are facing what may be the most difficult year yet.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Tobii Dynavox, the global leader in assistive technology for communication, today announced the new generation of its special education platform Boardmaker. Boardmaker provides a fully inclusive education environment for parents, special education teachers and schools to millions of students around the world.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

Persistent teacher shortages and the cost and time required to fill special education roles often exacerbate the strain. Adding to the complexity, Parts B and C of the IDEA mandate that all children with disabilities receive a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE).

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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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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2021

Hybrid education can help schools address the needs of vulnerable learners, including younger children who are difficult to engage online, as well as low-income and special education students, along with English-language learners.

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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. When it comes to the use of Generative AI tools, educators must be aware of the data privacy risks that their implementation entails.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Create community guidelines for discussions that include intention and impact/anti-bias language. Thank you for your work towards broadening access to higher education! Hamza is an associate professor in the Middle and Adolescence Education Department in the College of Education. Jennifer E. Garland, Ph.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

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. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains. 20k+ per year).

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

PresenceLearning, the leading provider of live online special education related services for K-12 schools, reached the milestone of delivering more than three million teletherapy sessions to students nationwide. This comes at the one-year mark of schools dealing with learning during a global health crisis. About PresenceLearning.

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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. Next page: How educators are using Bookshare to reach students with dyslexia. Making a difference.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Its 18,000 pre-K–12 students speak 100 different languages, and 10,000 of them have a first language other than English. Some 13,000 students qualify for free and reduced lunch, and the district serves 3,000 special education students. Lessons learned from family and student feedback. Highline is a truly diverse district.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology. She wasn't involved in the day-to-day educational interventions like we are.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2015

44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both. Hill was speaking at a June 17 briefing on Capitol Hill that focused on the intersection of technology and special education. Flipped learning and one-to-one are a powerful combo for some populations.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2015

Although districts are required to provide students in need with special education and related services such as speech therapy, many face obstacles in doing so.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2015

Online language and literacy intervention uses the principles of neuroplasticity to target the root causes of slow academic progress in struggling students. News Special Education Top News' The Fast ForWord program from Scientific Learning Corp. Next page: How Fast ForWord helps students with learning differences.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout. The resulting platform is a combination of their expertise and 13 years of our own data on how special education providers and students engage in therapy and evaluations.”.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2018

Many educators—general classroom teachers and special educators as well—also are looking for resources to help neuro-typical students better their peers with autism. Special educators and families are hungry for advice and encouragement. Providing services for children with autism is a growing challenge.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“When using Foundations in Learning’s reading program Access Code , my language arts resource students made remarkable growth in their ability to tackle longer, multi-syllabic words, and this translated to better fluency and greater confidence. Christina Sorenson, language arts resource teacher, Henry Middle School, Cedar Park, Texas.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Through this partnership, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and behavioral and mental health professionals will be able to use PresenceLearning’s exclusive digital adaptations of Potato Head, Candy Land, and Clue Jr. with students during online therapy sessions conducted on the company’s award-winning therapy platform.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2015

Featured on eSchool News IT Newsletter Special Education Top News accessibility cc closed captions deaf special needs special-ed sped students' Next page: Getting Onboard with Accessibility.

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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.,

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Office of Special Education Programs has awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant to researchers within KUs School of Education & Human Sciences to develop Increasing Knowledge and Natural Opportunities With Social Emotional Competence, or iKNOW.

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