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The Education of Students with Special Needs - Coggle Diagram
The Education of Students with
Special Needs
Strategies for Optimizing the Development
of Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs
Emotional and Social Development
Helping toddlers develop confidence in recognizing emotions in others.
Encouraging confidence and expand independence
Helping infants develop independence. Promote positive behavior, self-esteem and self-control
Physical Development
For toddlers, encouraging large and small muscle development
Encouraging good nutritional habits.
For infants, providing a safe environment to encourage crawling, walking and independence.
Cognitive Development
Encouraging vocabulary development
Helping toddlers to investigate cause and effect relationships
Helping infants develop the concept of object permanence
Strategies for Optimizing the Development
of Preschoolers with Special Needs
All states are required to report data to the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs on these child outcomes:
Acquisition and use of knowledge and skills (including early language/communication and early literacy)
Use of appropriate behaviors to meet their needs
Positive social-emotional skills (including social relationships)
Strategies for Optimizing the Development of Special Needs Children in the Early to Middle Childhood Stage
Response Accommodations
Allowing for verbal responses
Allowing for answers to be dictated to a scribe
Allowing the use of a tape recorder to capture responses
Setting Accommodations
Providing preferential seating
Providing special lighting or acoustics
Providing a space with minimal distractions
Presentations Accommodations
Providing in large print
Reducing the number of items per page or line
Providing an audio tape
Timing and Scheduling Accommodations
Increasing the allowable length of time to complete an assessment or assignment and perhaps change the way that time is organized.