Special Education Department
Educating Students Academically, Socially and Behaviorally
July 22, 2016 Volume 4 Issue 2
News
Congratulations!
Becky Rosen got engaged!
Sad News
Stephanie Wroniuk recently lost her mother.
Colleen Bretones recently lost her mother-in-law.
Our thoughts are with both of them as this most difficult time.
Educator's Night at the Philadelphia Zoo
Tuesday, August 23, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Substitutes:
We are always looking for teacher, nurse and paraprofessional substitutes. If you know anyone who is interested, please have that person call the personnel office at 476-6247.
New Names for IEPDirect, Aesop and AppliTrack
Frontline Technologies, the company that owns Aesop and AppliTrack has recently acquired IEPDirect. Frontline is renaming all of its products in an effort to have a unified set of integrated products. Only the names, logos, colors and login pages will change. The products will otherwise remain the same. Aesop will be Absence Management. AppliTrack will be Applicant Tracking. IEPDirect will be Frontline IEP.
SchoolDude
SchoolDude has changed the security for SchoolDude users. You will now need to put in your email address and password BEFORE you get the SchoolDude request screen. This is one extra step. If you have fogotten the your password, you will need to click on the link for "Forgot Password?" and SchoolDude will send you and email to reset your password.
Getting Started on the Right Foot
These resources are great for new teachers and veteran teachers!
Straight from the Code
In an effort to provide both general and special education teachers with more knowledge of special education, there will be an excerpt from the code each week to help clarify our processes. If you would like to access the entire code, go to http://www.state.nj.us/education/code/current/title6a/chap14.pdf
14 Disabilities defined in the code:
1. Auditorily Impaired
2. Autistic
3. Intellectually Disabled
4. Communication Impaired
5. Emotionally Disturbed
6. Multiply Disabled
7. Deaf/blindness
8. Orthopedically Disabled
9. Other Health Impaired
10. Preschool Child with a Disability
11. Social Maladjustment
12. Specific Learning Disability
6A:14-3.5(c)12 "Specific learning disability" corresponds to "perceptually impaired" and means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
i. A specific learning disability can be determined when a severe discrepancy is found between the student's current achievement and intellectual ability in one or more of the following areas:
(1) Basic reading skills;
(2) Reading comprehension;
(3) Oral expression;
(4) Listening comprehension;
(5) Mathematical calculation;
(6) Mathematical problem solving;
(7) Written expression; and
(8) Reading fluency.
ii. A specific learning disability may also be determined by utilizing a response to scientifically based interventions methodology as described in N.J.A.C. 6A:14-3.4(h)6.
iii. The term severe discrepancy does not apply to students who have learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, general cognitive deficits, emotional disturbance or environmental, cultural or economic disadvantage.
iv. The district shall, if it utilizes the severe discrepancy methodology, adopt procedures that utilize a statistical formula and criteria for determining severe discrepancy. Evaluation shall include assessment of current academic achievement and intellectual ability.
13. Traumatic Brain Injury
14. Visually Impaired
Contests and Free Stuff!
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FREE Summer Professional Development
PresenceLearning
10 "Best of" Webinars Available for free until August 10!
Topics include: autism, behavioral interventions, social emotional learning, and more!
Receive certificates for each webinar (Speech therapists can earn ASHA credits)
Free Webinars:
Understanding and Treating the Behavior of Students with Autism
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
How to Support Dyslexic Students in Your School
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Create an Amazing Classroom Environment that Connects to Your “New” Children
Thursday, July 28, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
K-5 Students’ Natural Curiosity: The Key to True STEM Learning
Thursday, July 28, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Using Neuroscience to Improve Learning Fractions
Thursday, July 28, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Step-by-Step: Lesson Planning Using Universal Design for Learning
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 @ 3:00 am - 4:00 pm
Assistive Technology for Struggling Readers
Thursday, August 18, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Engineering Classrooms with Visual Strategies for Autism Success
Thursday, September 22, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Free WebBriefs
Let Them Be Heard: Helping Students Present Knowledge and Ideas (Grades K-5)
Tuesday, Jul 26, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lively Letters & Sassy Sounds: Phonemic Awareness & Phonics (Grades PreK-K)
Tuesday, Aug 9, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Playing All the Way to Good Behavior & Self-Control (Grades PreK-1)
Tuesday, Aug 16, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
NJ Coalition for Inclusive Education (NJCIE) recorded webinars
From the Department of Education
Student Services Snippets
Critical Information for ALL staff is contained in these short screencasts. They run from 4.5 to 8 minutes. Please refer to them as needed.
Working with Paraprofessionals
Critical Information for Paraprofessionals
If there is other information you feel it would be helpful for us to share via screencast, please let us know.
Special Education Department
Email: stecherm@hamiltonschools.org
Website: http://www.hamiltonschools.org/cst.html
Phone: (609)476-6314
Facebook: facebook.com/HTSDspecialed
Twitter: @HTSDspecialed