Practical Special Education for Parents
Hello, I'm David Poeschl, a retired school district special education director and Cal State University lecturer. For the past 10 years I have been providing individual advocacy services to parents of students with disabilities. Currently, I speak to 300-400 families per year and work closely with 40-50 of those. I see every day the difficulty parents have trying to access the system initially, and the struggles to get and maintain a good special education program for their children over time. I also know that knowledge is power, particularly when one is facing a complex and sometimes incredibly frustrating system. Studies consistently show that parents who are better informed are more satisfied with their children's IEP programs. The podcasts in this series are designed to provide you with both the facts and, more importantly, the context and meaning that my experiences bring to the facts. In my professional career, I chaired thousands of IEP meetings, set-up school and district programs, both special and general education, and provided training to hundreds of teachers and paraprofessional staff. At a Cal State campus, I taught the one special education course required for general education credential and masters candidates. I taught thousands of students about the field and how to work with students with disabilities. Although the program is geared towards California, there is universally applicable information in each episode.
Episodes
In some places and in some industries the days when dyslexia, learning diiferences and other school based disabilities are seen as debilitating and in need of only rememdiation are gone.
Today, particularly in tech and some governmental agencies, "dyslexic thinking" is seen as an asset and not as a disability or a liability.
Dyslexic thinking can be defined as (Dictionary.com) "an approach to problem-sol...
AI is revolutionizing the technology that allows students with disabilities to access the general education curriculum. Struggling to read no longer means missing out on academic and social information that is text based or text heavy.
Devices like reading pens, that allow a student to scan text and hear it simultaneously will help that student access to all of the information their typical peers enjoy.
It goes beyon...
I have seen a significant trend in my practice, teens with high functioning autism unable to attend school due to intense anxiety.
The problem of children with autism who are unable to cope with school and develop agoraphobic type symptoms has long been around, but the increased numbers of highly intelligent, often with a "superpower" talented young people who are unable to participate in their edu...
I've included a transcript of this episode. And here are a few helpful links to expand your knowledge of PBS.
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ80580
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_behavior_support
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5048254/
This will be the first of many podcast episodes featuring different aspects of PBS. I first started to write and record a training series f...
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a method of teaching that embeds accommodations for all students into general education settings. Students who are visual, or auditory, or tactile/sensory learners are taught, and the student can show mastery, in the way that uses their strengths.
UDL has been successfully implemented in thousands of classrooms around the country and its efficacy has been proven in th...
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