The Department of Education last week released a series of documents for states to help them teach students with disabilities, as well as to accommodate them on state tests.
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The 鈥淭ool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities鈥� was released April 26 at the annual legislative conference of the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington. The guide is meant to help school, district, and state education personnel.
One document is a 鈥渄ecision framework鈥� that educators drafting individualized education programs can use to determine how students should participate in state tests. Another paper gives a hypothetical example of how 鈥渞esponse to intervention,鈥� a method of diagnosing children with specific learning disabilities, might work in a school.
