NYSTCE Students with disabilities (Latest 2023, A+ Rated)
NYSTCE Students with disabilities
Principals
Primary responsibility is administrative.
... [Show More] Implement building policy procedures,
and control designation of facilities, equipment and resources. Main focus if
following protocol, watching for liability, and managing the school team.
General Education Teacher
Role is to observe the student's learning process and monitor the success of the
IEP. Give feedback to the student and the IEP team. Work with the students on a
regular basis and contribute information to referrals.
Occupational Therapist
For older students, this person will work with self care skills including vocational
skills. Also will focus on fine motor skills.
Paraprofessional
An assistant to the Special Educator and works in the classroom with the student
with disabilities. A tutor for individual students or with small groups. Creates the
material to be used in class with the student and also gives important feedback to
both the student and the members of the IEP team
Physical Therapist
Work with students who have issues with disorders of muscles, bones, joints, or
nerves after the student has received medical assessment. Usually relates to-
cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy. This person will also be familiar with assistive
technologies and or adaptive equipment
School Psychologist
Role is to administer and interpret results of the standardized test. Will also
contribute to the assessment of the student and help create the IEP. Observes the
student in the classroom, provide testing and evaluation and document a case
history of the student.
Social Worker
provide resources and materials to the parents or caregivers of the student.
Specializes in knowing community and school services available. Can do intake,
interview, and home visits as needed.
Speech Pathologist
Works with students with speech or language disorders on an ongoing basis. Offers
support and feedback to the student and his or her parents and or caregivers on an
ongoing basis.
School Nurse
Provides information to the families about health related issues. Responsible for
medications, therapeutic services, and care for specific medical conditions
Guidance Counselor
Responsible for counseling services for the family and student.
Autism
Developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal
communication and social interaction, generally evident before the age of three,
that adversely affects a child's educational performance. Engagement in repetitive
activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or
change in daily routine, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
Cognitive Disability
Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently
with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period,
that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Deaf-Blindness
Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes
severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they
cannot be accommodates in special education programs solely for children with
deafness or children with blindness
Deafness
A hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing
linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that
adversely affects a child's educational performance
Emotional Disability
Condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long
period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child's education
performance
- An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health
factors
- An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with
peers and teachers
- Inappropriate types of behavior or feeling under normal circumstances
- A general pervasive mood of anxiety or unhappiness or depression
- A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or
school problems
Hearing Impairment [Show Less]