Do You Speak the Special Education Language
Special Education Acronyms and Terms As a parent have you ever wondered why the educators and others on the team speak using so many...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Feb 28
- 5 min
Tuesday’s Tip: No Water Walking but I Do Work to Move Mountains
Today's tip focuses on the roles of the advocate. This could be the honest request of those parents who have the distinct feeling that,...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Feb 14
- 4 min
Advocates are there to help you Say What You Want!
Why are advocates there? How should you respond to the statement, we only have 45 minutes. As an advocate, no, covering a 43-page IEP in...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Tuesday's Tip: Advocate or Lawyer? How To Decide
Getting Lost in LD As a parent you make the call, but you are not sure whether you want to hire an advocate or a lawyer. All you know is...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Jan 17
- 2 min
Executive Functioning
When does Executive Function Develop? Executive function emerges during preschool and develops in correlation with frontal lobe...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Sep 27, 2022
- 2 min
Tuesday's Tip: Questions You Should Ask AT Your Scholar's IEP Meeting
If I hear just one more time how cute or how polite my son is I may never recover from the screaming meemies that will immediately...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Sep 13, 2022
- 4 min
Tuesday's Tip: How To Right An IEP Goal
DEFINING MEASURABLE GOAL COMPONENTS If you have a student with an IEP you have read lots of goals, but do you have any idea about how...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Aug 30, 2022
- 2 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goal - Research-Based Programming
So why the emphasis on research/evidence based methods or programs? If you google something like "teach phonics step by step" you will...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Aug 16, 2022
- 2 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goals -Evaluation
Evaluation of the data must be defined and reviewed by the team with readjustments to the IEP based on that data. If the data is not...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Aug 2, 2022
- 3 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goals- Teachable
Special Education is specially designed instruction (SDI's) and the related services needed by the child to benefit from that instruction...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goal R- Relevant
GOALS MUST BE RELEVANT TO CURRICULUMS: General/Core, Modified, Expanded, & Functional Goals must be relevant to Curriculms General...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Jul 5, 2022
- 1 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goals Attainable
Define attainable advancement that is time bound. So many times goals are about balance in addition to all of the other issues that need...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Jun 21, 2022
- 3 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goals -Measurable
Measurable and meaningful data collection must be established Identification of needs requires defined meaningful data collection that...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Jun 7, 2022
- 3 min
Tuesday's Tip: SMARTER Goal: Specific
Specific areas of need must be identified in academic, developmental and functional It is difficult to underestimate the importance of...
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Dashonera Crawley
- May 24, 2022
- 3 min
Tuesday's Tip: SMART vs. SMARTER Goals
SMARTER GOALS CREATE IMPROVED IEP OUTCOMES YOU NEED TO KNOW ENOUGH - TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS - TO GET THE RIGHT ANSWERS What you don’t...
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Dashonera Crawley
- May 10, 2022
- 4 min
Tuesday's Tip: 18 Essential Parts of An Individualized Education Program - Part 2
This blog addresses the last 9 parts of the IEP and their functions. As a parent you must understand the function of each part of the IEP...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
Tuesday's Tip: Essential Parts of An Individualized Education Program-(IEP) Part 1
There are 18 essential parts of the IEP and today we will focus on the first 9. Sometimes an annotated IEP document can reach 40 pages...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Apr 12, 2022
- 2 min
Tuesday's Tip: 5 IEP Curriculums - #5 Behavior
BEHAVIORAL CURRICULUM The last of the five curriculums you will find in an IEP is that for behavior. The behavior curriculum is...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Mar 29, 2022
- 3 min
Tuesday's Tip: 5 IEP Curriculums - #4 Assistive Technology
Today we are focusing on assistive technology and its importance in assisting the scholar in accessing their education. We frequently do...
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Dashonera Crawley
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
Tuesday's Tip: 5 IEP Curriculums #3 Expanded/Functional
Most parents do not think of accommodations or modifications as part of an actual curriculum. However, it does help to look at it from a...
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