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Supporting and Accommodating Students with Special Health Care Needs

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 2023

Summary

Schools are increasingly responding to the impact and prevalence of special health care needs among children and youth. COVID-19 brought the health needs of many students to the forefront. Now more than ever, it is crucial to for educators to plan for working with students with health needs. Many of these students with health needs are eligible for special education and related services and will need programming appropriate to address their unique needs. Further, school teams and special education personnel must continually ensure that goals and services within an IEP consider the student’s individual circumstances and impact on functioning. This book will provide strategies for supporting students with health care needs throughout their education, including referral, family engagement, report writing, IEP design, and implementation. Fortunately, school teams can apply many components of a health-care needs approach to developing IEPs, regardless of the concern or the existence of a medical history.

This book provides guidance to educators to assist in the development of legally defensible IEP’s for all students, particularly those with a known or suspected history of health care needs. Specifically, the book will help:

  • Provide a clear description of the impact of adversity and health-care needs on student functioning, particularly for students with disabilities.

  • Describe how symptoms of health-care needs map onto existing disability categories within IDEA.

  • Apply a supportive approach to family engagement, assessment, and report writing.

  • Take a different approach to PLAAFPs.

  • Establish goals that are legally defensible and are written in light of the child’s circumstances, viewing behavioral concerns as a skill deficit rather than purely a performance deficit.

Beyond the objectives described above, the information is particularly valuable given ongoing state and local legislation mandating schools become more aware of students with health-care needs and apply those approaches to all aspects of our work in schools (e.g., interactions, discipline, interventions). Despite the significant increase in recognizing the impact of students with health care needs, few books have operationalized that to the various components of service delivery. This book is the first of its kind in operationalizing a health care informed approach to IEP development.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-7005-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-7007-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
154
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Editors’ Note No access
  1. Chapter 1. Students with Medical Issues and Individualized Education Programs No access Pages 1 - 14
  2. Chapter 2. Utilization of Health Data as Part of a Multiple Tiered Systemic Approach: The Journey to Leverage ESSA and Data to Inform Early Intervention Decision Making No access Pages 15 - 26
  3. Chapter 3. A Schoolwide Approach to Health Care: An Urban School’s Journey No access Pages 27 - 38
  4. Chapter 4. The Role of Health in Schools: MTSS Approach and Machine Learning Risk Levels No access Pages 39 - 60
  5. Chapter 5. Lessons Learned by Leading during COVID No access Pages 61 - 86
  6. Chapter 6. The Educational Needs of Students with Chronic Illness No access Pages 87 - 108
  7. Chapter 7. School Nurses: Partners in Educating Students with Health Concerns and Special Needs No access Pages 109 - 128
  8. Chapter 8. Recovery High Schools: Working at the Intersection of Education, Mental Health, and Addiction Science No access Pages 129 - 146
  9. Index No access Pages 147 - 152
  10. About the Editors No access Pages 153 - 154

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