Early Intervention Services 0-4 yrs.

Pre School Readiness Skills 4-6 yrs.

School for Special Education 6-16 yrs.

Pre Voc & Vocational Centre 18+ yrs.

Recreational & Activity Club 5+ yrs.

Remedial Teaching Services Speech, OT,

Education

Planning for the Individual Child


Planning for the child with mentally challenged is very necessary. It is very important to plan for his /her educational needs and not ignore the special inputs required, at various levels of development.

Assessment Steps

Initial Identification.

Definition of evaluation of current performance level and educational needs.

Decision about classification and program placement.

Development of Individual Education/Training Program (IEP/ITP)

Definition and Selection of Teaching Procedure and strategies.

Approach to Assessment.

NPT Norm Performance Test is standardized measure that allows comparison of the subject performance to that of normal or average group.

CRT Criterion Reference Test is concerned with whether a child performs skills and as per the criteria set or not.

Observation.

Interview

Assessment Tools

Popularly used tools in India

Madras development programming system. MDPS

Behavioral assessment scale for Indian Children with MR (Basic MR)

Functional Assessment Check List for Programming (FACP)

The portage guide to early education.

Upanayan program for developmental training.

Grade level assessment device (GLAD)

Interdisciplinary Team : Effective Special Education Programming of Services

Clinical Psychologist

Educational Psychologist Audiologist

Speech Pathologist and Audiologist

Physiotherapist

Occupational Therapist

Special Educator

Social worker

Psychiatrist

Paediatrician

Vocational Consultants etc.

Teaching Principles

Simple to Complex

Known to Unknown

Concrete to Abstract

Whole to Part

States of Learning

Acquisition Maintenance

Over learning

Distributed practice

Generalization

Instructional consideration.

 

Alternate Activities

Nutrition

 

Changing Activities

Pantomised Instruction

 

Consistency

Past Experience

 

Developmental Behavior

Peer tutoring

 

Goal Planning

Promption (Assistance)

 

Imitiation

Practice

 

Individualized instruction

Reverse programming

 

Instructional grouping

Role play

 

Instructional Programming

Routine in learning

 

Life long skill sequence

Seasonal festivities

 

Model demonstration

Skill demonstration

 

Music

Teaching Environment

 

Theatre

Useful skills

 

Dance

Understanding Objectives

 

Sports

Visual self monitoring

Method

The Montessori Method or Auto Education/Self Education

Project Method

Playway Method

VAKT Visual, Auditory, Kinestatic and Tackle approach

Eclectic

Strategies of Teaching

Task Analysis

Shaping

Changing of sub task

Prompting assistance and Fading

Reinforcements

Modeling - Buddy systems

Errorless discrimination in learning

Principles of Curriculum Development

Goal oriented

Age appropriate

Need based

Level appropriator

Up to date

Creative

Integrated

Comprehension

Type of Curriculum

Developmental

Ecological

Functional

Eclectic

Approaches to Curriculum Development

CCC Child Centered Curriculum

ACC Activity Centered Curriculum

HC- Holistic Curriculum