Translator's Preface
Author's Preface

Part 1: Foundations of Developing Meaningful IEPs

Chapter 1: Overview of the History and Legal Perspectives of Special Education
1.
The law that shaped special education
2. IEP Rubric
3.
summation
4.
activity

Chapter 2: IEP Considerations for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
1.
Demographic trends of culturally and linguistically diverse students
2.
historical discrimination
3.
summation
4.
activity

Chapter 3: Building a Collaborative Team for Better IEPs
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2. Review IEP meeting participants
3.
Student-Led IEP Meetings
4.
Developing a Team
5.
summation
6. IEP Checklist: Special Factors
7.
activity

Part 2: Key Areas of IEP Development

Chapter 4 Current Academic Achievement and Functional Performance Level
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
Academic achievement and functional performance
3.
Improvement Target Areas
4.
summation
5. IEP Checklist: Current Academic Achievement and Functional Performance Level
6.
activity

Chapter 5 Objectives
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
Are general education teachers responsible for implementing IEP goals?
3.
Write measurable, observable, and meaningful goals
4.
Goals that reflect culture
5.
summation
6. IEP Checklist: Goals
7.
activity

Chapter 6 Short-Term Goals
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
short-term goals
3.
summation
4. IEP Checklist: Short-Term Goals
5.
activity

Chapter 7 Measuring and Reporting Progress
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
Progress Check Evaluation
3.
Data collection
4.
Progress report
5.
summation
6. IEP Checklist: Measuring and Reporting Progress
7.
activity

Part 3: Concepts Supporting IEP Development

Chapter 8 Minimum Restrictive Environment
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
The 2004 Act on the Improvement of Education for Individuals with Disabilities and the Least Restrictive Environment
3.
Implications for Instructional Decisions
4.
Least Restrictive Environment Continuum
5.
Support for minimally restrictive environment technologies
6. Include a Least Restrictive Environment Statement in the IEP
7.
Full integration and mainstreaming
8.
summation
9. IEP Checklist: Least Restrictive Environment
10.
activity

Chapter 9 Adjustments and Modifications
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
adjustment
3.
correction
4.
Effective Integration in Practice
5.
summation
6. IEP Checklist: Adjustments and Modifications
7.
activity

Chapter 10: Building a Transition Team - Meeting Postsecondary Needs
1.
Conversion according to the Disabled Persons Education Act
2.
Understanding the legal perspective
3. IEP transition-related factors
4.
Using the Transition Planning Framework
5.
summation
6. IEP Checklist: Transition
7.
activity

Chapter 11: Designing a Behavior Intervention Plan
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
The need for fair practice
3.
Culturally Reflective Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
4.
Functional Behavioral Assessment
5.
Writing Quality Behavioral IEP Goals
6.
Check your progress
7.
summation
8. IEP Checklist: Behavioral Goals
9.
activity

Chapter 12: Support for Students with Disabilities in Private and Religious Schools
1.
Understanding the legal perspective
2.
Private school placement
3. ISP and IEP
4.
summation
5. IEP Checklist: Private and Religious Schools
6.
activity

References
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Appendix: IEP Checklist
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