1. Society, inclusion, outcomes
INTRODUCTION TO EXCEPTIONALITIES
SPED 23000
INSTRUCTOR: BRIAN FRIEDT

2. This week
 Supplemental reading
 Read this at some point.
 If you are writing a reflection this week, read what you need to.
 Volunteer experience project
 Start thinking.

3. An acknowledgement
 There is a ton of material in chapter two
 We will examine it some of it closely.
 We will gloss over some of it.
 Some of the material in chapter two overlaps with stuff we
discussed last week. (This is good.)
 There will be things that we look at briefly this week and
discuss at much greater length later.
 Much of this material lays the foundation for the course.

4. Normalization and institutionalization
 Social validity
 Significance of goals
 Social appropriateness of procedures
 Importance of effects (Wolf, 1978)
 Unintended consequences
 Rational examination of educationally relevant
variables.
 Continuum of services/placements

5. Labels
 Labels drive service provision.
 Labels can be misused.
 Labels are (probably) unavoidable.

6. Universal design for learning
 Representation
 Expression
 Engagement
 We will talk about this all semester.

7. Differentiated instruction
 Kids are different, right?
 Practical?
 Effective?
 Standards?

8. Technology
 Cochlear implants
 Dynavox
 Kurzweil
 Dragonspeak
 And so on…
 We will talk about this all semester.

9. Inclusion
 Full inclusion
 Full anything?
 Evidence
 Ethics
 Educationally relevant variable
 Race (not relevant)
 Disability (situationally relevant)

10. Inclusion
 Continuum of placement
 Appropriateness
 Variety
 Collaboration
 Co-teaching
 Consulting
 Teams
 We will talk about this all semester.

11. Accommodation and modification
 Accommodation
 Changes that don’t affect content or instructional goals
 Assessments read aloud, scribe, Braille, large text, reduced
assignments (maybe)…
 Modification
 Changes that do affect content or instructional goals
 Alternate materials, variable difficulty, reduced assignments
(maybe), modified assessments
 We will talk about this all semester.

12. Identification
 Pre-referral teams (child study teams, evaluation
teams…)
 RTI
 MFE
 We will talk about this all semester.

13. Assessment
 Progress monitoring!
 Data!
 We will talk about this all semester.

14. Early intervention
 It works (see the article this week).
 It can take a bunch of forms.
 It looks different from school age special education.
 Developmental delay/IFSP
 We will talk about this all semester.

15. Transition
 Huge focus on post-secondary world.
 In general, students with disabilities do worse in the
post-secondary world than their typically developing
peers.
 Graduation rates (for some disability categories)
 Standardized test scores
 Employment rates
 We will talk about this all semester.

16. Transition
 Education
 Independent living
 Employment
 Community involvement

17. Discipline
 Manifestation determination
 A word.
 Behavior modification
 We will talk about this all semester.