Special Schools

Nadia Powell
EDU 201
March 15, 2018
 Public Law 94-142
This law is a United States federal law that is
responsible for governing how states and
various public agencies provide early
intervention, special education and other
related services to children with disabilities.
 I.D.E.A. Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act
• 4-part piece of legislation
• ensures students with a disability are provided
with Free Appropriate Public Education
• previously known as the Education for All
Handicapped Children Act from 1975 to 1990
 I.E.P
• A legal document
• spells out your child’s learning needs, the
services the school will provide and how
progress will be measured
• IEP team includes: parents, at least one of the
child’s general education teachers, at least
one special education teacher, school district
rep., your child, and a translator.
 John F. Miller
• Mission: provides special education
programming and services for students with
specialized needs, ages 3-22 years.
• Motto: All Children Can Learn
 Helen J. Stewart
• 18 classrooms plus building specialists for music,
art, transition services, adaptive physical
education, and swimming. We also have speech
therapists, a physical therapist, and an
occupational therapist working with students.
• large facility which has an indoor swimming
pool, cardio room, a barn, complete with farm
animals, sensory room, computer lab, daily living
skills room, and a greenhouse facility.
 Miley Achievement Center
• Mission: “We strive to provide our students
with behavioral, social, and emotional
supports necessary to promote positive,
meaningful relationships, character
development, responsible citizens, and
academic achievement.”
 Variety
• The school cost $18 million and features
vocational training centers for laundry, a kitchen
and restaurant, a recycling center, a graphics
center and a greenhouse.
• The school also partnered with the Cleveland
Clinic, a nonprofit academic medical center,
which will use three of the school’s classrooms to
train teachers at Variety and other schools about
best practices for special needs education.
 Homebound
• Provides instruction to CCSD students
medically unable to attend school.
• Conducts instructional sessions online or at
home depending upon need.
• Adapts instructional techniques to meet
students’ unique medical needs.
• Assists CCSD schools with individualized
programming in home settings.
 Least Restrictive Environment
a student who has a disability should have the
opportunity to be educated with non-disabled
peers, to the greatest extent appropriate.