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M23U1A1:Activity 1: Related Services for Students with Special Needs, The…

- - - - Occupational therapy (OT) is a treatment for sports and coordination problems. It can help people improve their motor skills in daily work, like writing and dressing.
        Children can get OT for free at school.
        Insurance may or may not cover OT.
        For many reasons, OT may be needed at any age.
        Children can get the most from OT, and the sooner you start, the better.
        
        How does OT work?
        
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        Students will perform special rehabilitation activities to improve their academic performance, physical and social emotional health.
        
        EXAMPLE:
        
        Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
        
        Tier 1: Universal, whole school approaches focus on promotion
        
        Have a ‘theme-of-the-week’ in which all teachers, staff, and students learn about and practice a specific SEL skill, like ‘identifying emotions’.
        
        Evaluate lunch, recess, and hallway factors that promote or impede student participation
        
        Provide in-services to faculty and staff on specific SEL interventions.
        
        Communicate (via email, in person, letters home) to family members on S.EL strategies and interventions.
        
        Screen all children for behaviors that suggest risk for impaired social and emotional development.
        
        Work with educators to implement positive classroom management strategies.
        
        Tier 2: Targeted strategies focus on accommodations for students at-risk.
        • Develop groups that emphasize social and emotional skills.
        • Create a lunch-time group aimed at addressing the SEL framework.
        • Facilitate or co-facilitate a group targeted toward those who struggle with conflict resolution. Use strategies such as role-play, emotion identification, attribution, and other .cognitive-behavioral interventions.
        • Identify student strengths and promote development of positive roles to create opportunities to generalize SEL successfully.
        
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  - - - School counselors encourage and support the academic, career and social/emotional development of all students through school counseling programs. School counselors are committed to helping all students realize their potential and meet or exceed academic standards with consideration for both the strengths and challenges resulting from disabilities and other special needs.
        
        Examples
        
        The School Counselor works directly with students in individual and group counseling sessions as well as in classroom lessons so students may may adjust to new school settings, establish effective study skills, Develop skills in interacting and communicating with others, Identify and accept their own and others’ strengths and weaknesses, and Receive crisis intervention when necessary.
        
        Things Counselors can do to Promote Social-Emotional Learning for Students Diagnosed with Emotional Disturbance Disorder and other Students.
        
        Counselors can work with special education teachers to establish formalized identification methods for students
        
        Counselors can provide classroom guidance which can be used to teach essential skills such as problem solving, conflict resolution, and basic social skills.
        
        Activity Example
        
        Correcting negative thinking
        
        Tool: Plastic ants and a gelatin mold
        
        How to use: Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) happen to all of us and they never occur in isolation. For instance, “My mom wasn’t good at math, so I’m not good at math. I wasn’t good at math in elementary school, so I know I won’t get any better in high school. If I can’t understand math, I can’t go to college. And, if I can’t go to college, I can’t get a job!” That’s the snowball effect.
        
        The gelatin mold, in the shape of a brain, represents thinking. The plastic ants represent negative thoughts. Teach students to smash their ANTS with positive self-talk. When a negative thought comes up again, you and the student now have a common language to identify it as an “ANT.” Then the student just needs to figure out how to smash it! This activity is a great to connect with students and promote SEL (Social and Emotional Learning).
      - Student benefits from school counseling
        
        1.) Ensures every student receives the benefit of the School Counseling program by designing content curriculum for every student.
        
        2.) Monitors data to facilitate student improvement and provides strategies for closing the achievement gap because some students need more.
        
        3.) Ensures equitable access to educational opportunities and
        Fosters advocacy for students.
        
        4.) Supports development of skills to increase student success.
        
        Parent Benefits from school counseling
        
        1.) Provides support in advocating for their children’s academic career and personal-social development.
        
        2.) Supports partnerships with parents in their children’s learning and career planning.
        
        3.) Helps Connect parents to community and school based services for their child.
        
        4.) Helps parents understand their children’s progress in school.
        
        5.) Select strategies to motivate their children.
        
        6.) Help parent's develop realistic goals with their children
        
        Teacher benefits from school counseling
        
        1.) Promotes an interdisciplinary team approach to address student needs and educational goals.
        
        2.) Supports the learning environment.
        
        3.) Analyzes data to improve school climate and student achievement.
      - References
      - Counseling / The benefits of school counseling services. (2021). Retrieved from https://www.bcbe.org/Page/14433
      - The school counselor and students with disabilities. (2021). Retrieved from https://schoolcounselor.org/Standards-Positions/Position-Statements/ASCA-Position-Statements/The-School-Counselor-and-Students-with-Disabilitie
      - Useful counseling activities to promote social-emotional learning. (2019, June 3). Retrieved from https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/social-emotional-counseling-activities/
      - (2021). Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ894775.pdf
- - - - Therapy, P. (2020, July 8). Integrating occupational therapy in schools. ProCare Therapy. https://blog.procaretherapy.com/occupational-therapy/integrating-occupational-therapy-classrooms/