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A Parents’ Guide to Special Education in North Carolina

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A Parents’ Guide to Special Education in North Carolina

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This resource is useful for parent's with students with disabilities in North Carolina. This is a guide for parents with children with SPE needs. This guide is perfect for assisting with parent's in NC and covers special education laws, important terms, history, frequent questions, IDEA informations, IEP meetings, and 504 Eligibility resources. This is a wonderful guide to show parents. This resource is provided to guide parents easily through questions that they might have and having resources that they refer back to if they need it. Parents can download this Guide on their computer also if they need it handy.

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The Duke Children's Law Clinic has produced a comprehensive Guide for parents of children with special education needs. The Guide explains the special education law in clear terms so that parents can learn the vocabulary, navigate the special education system, and become an effective advocate for their children. The Guide is especially geared to assist North Carolina parents.

The Guide contains 11 chapters, beginning with the broad concepts of the special education law and the important terms, then moving to specific topics. Readers can access the Guide by clicking the desired chapter on the list below, or by downloading the entire Guide to their own computer. The Frequently Asked Questions are answered orally as well as in the text. See the videos below to hear answers to common questions.
Download the guide Descarga la Guía en Español
Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 9 of the Guide provides answers to frequently asked questions about special education in North Carolina. The questions, which are divided into six groups, are also answered in the videos below. Click the play buttons to watch each grouping in its entirety, or use the links to jump to individual answers.

Eligibility for Special Education

Special Education Services and IEPs

Least Restrictive Environment and Placement Issues

Accommodations, Modifications, Supplementary Aids and Services, and Related Services

IEP Meetings

School Discipline

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A Parents' Guide to Special Education in North Carolina | Duke University School of Law

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The Duke Children's Law Clinic has produced a comprehensive Guide for parents of children with special education needs. The Guide explains the special education law in clear terms so that parents can learn the vocabulary, navigate the special education system, and become an effective advocate for their children.

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EC forms for referral, eligibility,  IEP, other special ed related forms

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EC forms for referral, eligibility,  IEP, other special ed related forms

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This link is important because this will be important for a special educator when finding forms to fill out for their students.  These are forms for ONLY the public schools of North Carolina. These are the NEW statewide forms that are used for IEP's, transitional services for students, Special Education referrals, Consent for Evaluation/Reevaluation, Eligibility Worksheets for students, and Supplemental forms. This resource will be super important for me being a special education teacher.

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The state forms are used by exceptional children personnel within local education agencies and state operated programs to assist with the documentation of data collection and programming for children with disabilities.

The current state forms have been amended and will be used statewide with the implementation of Every Child Accountability Tracking System (ECATS). During the statewide transition to ECATS, the use of current state, new state or local forms is allowable until the full state-wide implementation of ECATS is completed. Full state-wide implementation of ECATS is expected on or before October 1, 2018.

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The state forms are used by exceptional children personnel within local education agencies and state operated programs to assist with the documentation of data collection and programming for children with disabilities. The current state forms have been amended and will be used statewide with the implementation of Every Child Accountability Tracking System (ECATS).

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Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities

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Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities

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This link will be crucial when finding specific answer and policies when working with children with disabilities. These policies have to deal with all of the public schools in North Carolina. These policies are specific to children with disabilities and deals with policies dealing with definitions, state eligibility, local educational agency eligibility, evaluations, eligibility determinations, IEP's, educational placements, procedural safeguards, program information, authorizations, preschool grants, and class sizes all dealing with children with disabilities. This is important when working with families, general education teachers, and school administration as well.

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Parent Rights & Responsibilities in Special Education: NC Notice of Procedural Safeguards

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Parent Rights & Responsibilities in Special Education: NC Notice of Procedural Safeguards

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This link is important when working with families with disabilities. This link should be given to students with disabilities guardians so they can know their rights and responsibilities in special education. This resource provides legal rights and Procedural Safeguards for children with disabilities and every parent should read through this. This resource provides a PDF of these rights and responsibilities in English & Spanish. This PDF summarizes acronyms and terms used in SPE and allows parents to have a resource where they can refer back to if they need it when dealing with educational policies with students with disabilities.

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It is important that you understand the Procedural Safeguards (legal rights) provided for you and your child with a disability. In this document, you will find a new section in more user-friendly language that summarizes the rights and responsibilities of parents in the special education process. Acronyms and terms often used in special education and resources for parents are found in the appendices.

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Parent Rights & Responsibilities in Special Education: NC Notice of Procedural Safeguards

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It is important that you understand the Procedural Safeguards (legal rights) provided for you and your child with a disability. In this document, you will find a new section in more user-friendly language that summarizes the rights and responsibilities of parents in the special education process.

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This resource provides parents to navigate through special education resources, supports, trainings, and resources. This is specific for families with children with disabilities from ages birth to age 26. This is an important resource also for young adults with disabilities who need references when they need assistance, advocacy resources, professionals to help them, or other important resources. This resource also has important news and blog posts that are specific to people with disabilities. This is a great resource to provide to SPE parents and young adults.

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Exceptional Children's Assistance Center (ECAC)

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We help parents navigate the special education system, know their rights, and use their voice. We provide information, support, training and resources to assist families caring for children with special needs from birth to age 26. We also support young adults with disabilities in becoming self-advocates and leaders and the educators and professionals who serve them.

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Council for Exceptional Children: Initial Special Education Preparation Standards

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Council for Exceptional Children: Initial Special Education Preparation Standards

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This is a great resource for Special Educators when first starting their special education classroom. This resource has preparation standards that are wonderful for special educators when starting their classroom. This has resources explaining responsibilities as a special educator, preparing for academic subject areas, opportunities for experiences and practices, and responsibilities by the state or school district. This will be very useful when starting my first job as a special educator.

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The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)'s performance-based Initial Preparation Standards define what a candidate must know and be able to do to begin teaching. A high-quality preparation program that prepares candidates to meet these standards must provide, at a minimum, the following:

Bachelor's degree

Sufficient opportunities to develop and demonstrate appropriate pedagogical skills including extensive field experiences and clinical practice

Preparation in core academic subject areas

In addition, CEC expects that professional special educators in new positions undergo a systematic and structured discipline-specific period of induction, which is often the responsibility of the state or school district.

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Initial Special Education Preparation Standards

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The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)'s performance-based Initial Preparation Standards define what a candidate must know and be able to do to begin teaching.

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This resource is important to keep when I am starting my special education classroom because this allows me to capture transition-related services and activities and find authentic assessments for my IEP decision-making. This allows me to find an assessments that searches the domain, grade level, and disability area for my specific student. This will be perfect for specific students with disabilities and finding assessments that will benefit their daily lives. This will help me make decisions for my student as an educator.

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Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center

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Transition Assessment Matrix: Transition Resources: Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center: Indiana University Bloomington

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Age Appropriate Transition Assessment Toolkit

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Age Appropriate Transition Assessment Toolkit

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This will be useful for me to have handy as a special educator when working with transition assessments. This will be useful to have when working on collecting data on the students individual needs, preferences, and interest when finding certain demands that they need for their future. This will help me ask questions to myself, the student, and the students family on what will better their lives in working, educational, living, personal, and social needs of the student. This provides information of sample instruments, survey of transitions assessments, and informational links pertaining to transition assessments.

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This is an important resource to have as a special educator because I will be constantly making IEP goals for my students. Creating MEASURABLE IEP goals are even more important. Having this tool will allow me to practice more on creating IEP Goals for students with disabilities and provides planning strategies and evaluation strategies. These slides are a great reference to have when creating goal's for students just to check back to see if they are measurable and have a all the four components: annual goal, criteria, method, and schedule.

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This is an IRIS Module for MTSS pertaining to Math. I think this is a great resource to keep because it gives an overview of RTI and the features of it. It also provides universal screening, instruction, progress monitoring, evaluating student performance, data-based decisions, and implementation pertaining to math. It also provides examples in elementary and high school settings. I think this is wonderful to have when dealing with students with disabilities and assessing them in mathematical areas and preparing them for future implications pertaining to that field.

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Perspectives & Resources

Objectives

By completing the entire Perspectives & Resources section and reviewing the accompanying activities, the learner will:

Have an understanding of the MTSS/RTI framework as it applies to mathematics

Be familiar with the main features or components of MTSS/RTI

Be able to identify the differences in instruction at each tier

Understand the importance of making data-based instructional decisions

Standards

This IRIS Module aligns with the following licensure and program standards and topic areas. Click the arrows below to learn more.

When you are ready, proceed to Page 1.

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By completing the entire Perspectives & Resources section and reviewing the accompanying activities, the learner will: Have an understanding of the MTSS/RTI framework as it applies to mathematics Be familiar with the main features or components of MTSS/RTI Be able to identify the differences in instruction at each tier Understand the importance of making data-based instructional decisions This IRIS Module aligns with the following licensure and program standards and topic areas.

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This is a great resource to have as a special educator because this is a checklist when giving an assessment to a student. This gives a checklist for setting accommodations during the assessments, assistance with test directions, assistance during the assessments, giving equipments, assistive technology, and test formats. This is a wonderful resource to have for administering assessments to treat it properly for the student and treating the student fairly during the assessment.

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This is a resource to have as a special educator because this is useful when identifying a learning disability. This Module addresses formative assessment, progress monitoring, selecting a measure, making data-based instructional decisions, creating graphs, and communicating progress. To have this handy as a special educator will be great to have when identifying when to adjust instruction for struggling students and determining whether students are making appropriate progress. This is also wonderful to have for additional resources and references for progress monitoring.

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This resource introduces users to progress monitoring in reading, a type of formative assessment in which student learning is evaluated to provide useful feedback about performance to both learners and teachers (est. completion time: 2 hours).

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This resource caught my eye because many students with disabilities have problems with social skills. This will be great to have handy as an educator because if gives you an overview of social situations and what these difficulties look like and how they affect the student. It also provides certain Case Studies to specific categories of social situations like social initiations, social cognition, performance deficits, skill acquisition deficits, and assessments of social skills. This gives definitions and examples of topics concerning social skills with students with disabilities.

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Wrightslaw is a great resource to have as a parent, educator, advocate, or attorney when dealing with information about special educator advocacy and law for children with disabilities. This allows educators to search about special education laws. It also provides legal, advocacy, topics, training, books, videos, stores, and blogs dealing with special education. It also allows you to sign up to a newsletter that provides news and resources to special education resources. This is great resource when you have special education questions about the law.

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Peter W.D. Wright, Esq. and Pamela Darr Wright, MA, MSW

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Wrightslaw provides free access to articles, cases, resources and training about special education law and advocacy.

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This is a brochure dealing with behavioral assessment systems for children. The BASC3 is a digital assessment and scoring when dealing with children's behavior. This is a great resource to have as a special educator because you will be dealing with a lot of children with behavioral problems. This resource gives multiple perspectives, digital resources, and assessments when dealing with children with disabilities behavior problems. This also provides guides and materials for evidence-based intervention to behaviors.