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1 Jan 2017
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ESSA │Students with Disabilities

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How ESSA and IDEA Can Support College and Career Readiness for Students With Disabilities includes a brief and infographic that explore how states can leverage ESSA and the IDEA to promote college and career readiness for students with disabilities, and how participation and concentration in career and technical education programs can help.

Before 1975, only one in five children with disabilities attended public school The passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA]) changed that. With more than 6 million children receiving special education services, educators, families, policymakers, and providers face many challenges on the road to improving outcomes—and improving lives—for students with disabilities. ESSA takes this work one step further by, among other things, emphasizing the use of preventative frameworks such as multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) for English learners and culturally and linguistically diverse students. The law also sets new requirements for assessing the academic progress of students with disabilities including those with the most severe cognitive disabilities.

AIR conducts federal, state, and local projects designed to improve outcomes for students with disabilities and their families. Our areas of expertise include intensive intervention, tiered systems of support (e.g. response to intervention, PBIS, MTSS), resources and services to improve supports for English learners and culturally and linguistically diverse students with disabilities, instructional and assistive technology, teacher preparation, and fiscal reporting.

In alignment with ESSA, our special education professional development and technical assistance to states and districts across the nation focuses on building capacity for state and district leaders, educators and policy makers to effectively serve students with disabilities in various school settings and across all tiers of instruction and intervention.

We also develop projects that analyze and synthesize information related to policy initiatives in special education and early intervention and conduct cutting-edge research on emerging, high-priority topics related to special education.

Key Resources
  • High Leverage Practices for Special Education
  • Supporting Students through RTI [Video]    
  • Essential Components of RTI Integrity Rubric and Worksheet
  • What is Intensive Intervention?  Data-based Individualization (DBI) Webinar
  • Intervention Screening Tools Chart
  • Academic Progress Monitoring Tools Chart
  • Behavioral Progress Monitoring Tools Chart
AIR Centers with Related Content

AIR operates a number of national, regional, and state centers that produce publicly available resources. The centers that have a specific focus on students with disabilities are as follows:

  • CEEDAR: The Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform
  • National Center on Intensive Intervention
  • Center on Response to Intervention

 

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Harnessing the Potential of Multiple Languages and Family Partnerships in Early Childhood Intervention and Special Education (Webinar)

Do Teachers Teach Less in Classrooms with Students with Special Needs? Trends and Predictors from International Data (Webinar)

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Long Story Short: How Can We Alleviate the Shortage of Special Education Teachers?

Long Story Short: Why is Intensive Intervention Critical for Students with Disabilities?

Career and Technical Education, Inclusion, and Postsecondary Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

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