Special Schools

Simone Smith
EDU Intro to Elementary Education
March 22, 2017
 Public Law 94-142
Guaranteed a free appropriatepublic
education to each child with a disability.
Thislawhad a dramatic, positive impact
on millions of children with disabilities in
every state and each local community
across the country.
 Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act(IDEA)
Isis a four-part (A-D) piece of
Americanlegislationthat ensures
students with adisabilityare provided
with Free Appropriate
PublicEducation(FAPE) that is tailored
to theirindividualneeds.
 Individualized Education
Program (IEP)
If your child receives special education services, he must
have an Individualized Education Program (IEP). Thats
the law. An IEP is an important legal document. It spells
out your childs learning needs, the services the school
will provide and how progress will be measured.
IEP Team Members; Parent, at least one educational
teacher, special education teacher, school district
representative, an expert, a translator and your child.
 John F. Miller
Serves the most significantly disabled and medically fragile students in the Clark County School
District.
The school motto is: All Children Can Learn. Students range in age from 3-21 years.
Students who attend John F. Miller are students with multiple impairments; including
severe/profound mental challenges and at least one additional eligibility category, such as health
impairment, orthopedic impairment, visual impairment, and/or traumatic brain injury.
Students receive Speech/Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Health
Services, Additional related services may include: Orientation/Mobility, and Vision Services.
Students required to be assessed, are evaluated using the Nevada Alternate Assessment.
Students participate in Art, Music, and Adapted PE classes. Assistive technology and augmentative
communication are used extensively throughout the school.
A multi-disciplinary approach is used to determine student access to instruction.
Standards and is guided by each students IEP.
 Helen J. Stewart
Embraces the vision that all students can develop the skills necessary to become participating
members of their communities.
Provides students with learning activities to develop daily living, vocational, communication, social,
and functional academic skills.
Use of a comprehensive Community-Based-Instruction program is essential to the generalization of
these skills.
Students with significant intellectual disabilities and other secondary disabilities who range in age
from 6-22 years old.
Students from throughout Clark County attend Stewart for specialized instruction in daily living,
functional academics, vocational, communication, behavioral, and transitional needs.
Specialists for music, art, transition services, and adaptive physical education. Also has speech
therapists, a physical therapist, and an occupational therapist working with students.
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. These facilities are used to enhance
student learning and to develop life-long skills and interests that can be generalized to the community
in which they live.
Utilizes the latest technology to support the specialized curriculum needs of students in English
Language Arts, mathematics, science, communication, self-help, and life skills goals. Technology is
implemented with students on an individual basis.
 Miley Achievement Center
Students from 3-21 years of age.
The focus is on students who are affected by emotional and or behavioral disorders. The mission is to
ensure all students who have serious emotional disturbance will benefit from their education
academically, socially and vocationally; by receiving direct instruction and community experience.
The school believes in children and their ability to be successful in school, community and in life.
Miley focuses on ensuing that students have been assessed and are receiving the most appropriate
services to meet their individual needs.
The focus is to prepare students for lifes journey by providing them a sound academic program, social
skill instruction, self-management and responsibility training through the establishment of a strong
foundation from which they can build and establish their lives as contributing members of society.
Utilizing a counseling base for instruction, students are empowered to make better choices for
themselves and build self-esteem skills through encouragement and self-reflection.
The fundamental belief that all people have the basic right to be treated with dignity and respect.
They also have the right to benefit from an educational program that is most appropriate to meet their
individual needs.
Miley offers pre-school, elementary and secondary curriculum, following Clark County School District
standards and the State of Nevada guidelines for instruction. Standard curriculum encompasses the
arts, music, technology, counseling, foreign language, community service, vocational internships and
college prep classes.
 Variety
Provides a positive, individualized and multifaceted
program for students 6 through 21 years of age.
Students participate in a full academic and vocational
program which includes a motivational behavioral
management system.
We strive to prepare students to participate in a
democratic society; compete successfully in the job
market; be informed decision makers; and become life
learners.
 Homebound
Provides instruction to general and special education students who are ill or injured and
unable to attend school.
Services are provided for a minimum of 15 consecutive school days as determined by a
qualified physician.
Employs both full-time teachers and teachers who are under contract to teach at a CCSD
school during the day and provide services to Homebound students after duty hours.
Teachers travel to the students residence and provide direct, one-on-one instruction for
elementary students and those with specialized educational needs as determined
through an IEP.
General education students, grades 6 thru 12, receive direct instruction via Distance
Education utilizing Saba-Centra (interactive computer), independent study, and
Compass Learning.
 Least Restrictive Environment
(LRE)
LRE is part of theIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act(IDEA). IDEA says that children who
receivespecial educationshould learn in the least restrictive environment. This means they should
spend as much time as possible with peers who do not receive special education.
IDEA says two things about LRE that are important to understand when working with the IEP
team:
Your child should be with kids in general education to the maximum extent that is appropriate.
Special classes, separate schools or removal from the general education class should only happen
when your childs learning or attention issuehis disability under IDEAis so severe that
supplementary aids and services cant provide him with an appropriate education.
A key word here is appropriate. It refers to whats suitable or right for your child. Sometimes,
putting a child in a general education classroom isnt suitable because a specific service or
program cant be provided there.