
Inclusion involves carefully assessing a child's needs and then implementing a strategic plan to support that child within the general classroom setting.
Ensuring that a K-12 student (and beyond) with cerebral palsy accesses their educational environment successfully is a top priority for most families. Learning the ins and outs of IEP’s, 504’s and inclusion strategies involves carefully assessing a student’s needs, technology requirements, working with teachers and administrators and developing the most appropriate plan possible to help the student reach their highest potential in the least restrictive environment. A variety of accommodations addressing the classroom, testing, vision, communication, school activities and other considerations may be needed for the student to achieve their full potential.
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Advocating For Your Child At School A key phrase that I was taught was being positively persistent.
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Friendships in the Time of COVID-19 I don’t know if this is just me, but my time in quarantine has made me have weird flashbacks to my childhood. As a kid growing up with CP, especially with a speech impediment and mobility limitations,... -
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How I’ve Learned to Celebrate My Late Birth Mother Saturdays were special as a kid growing up in Port Washington, New York. Saturdays meant Burger King outings with my grandparents, a great big slice of trade-marked Hershey’s chocolate pie for me and...
Inclusion is best practice. It is also, quite simply, the right way to teach.