Diagnosing and Teaching Students with Emotional Disorders

Training Provided by Lorman Education Services Get your ticket to a safe and successful learning environment. As an education professional, you want to know the best ways to work with students who have emotional challenges. With so many laws and regulations governing placement, education plans and discipline, it's easy for an educator to get bogged down, afraid to make one wrong move. Take the first step out of confusion and into confidence. At our seminar, you'll get best practices to help you master the balancing act of improving behavior and maintaining educational quality. If you wait to learn the essentials until a problem develops, you could end up in a mess of legal woes. Register for this seminar and learn successful and compliant techniques for teaching students who have emotional disorders. Benefits for You - Create successful learning environments using preventive programs and proactive classroom management - Don't be caught by surprise - learn the inner workings of IDEA and Section 504 - Demystify the intricate process of making - and following - an IEP and accommodation plan - Get expert advice on individualized teaching, including assessment and intervention - Tips for managing the most common hot spots in student discipline

Diagnosing and Teaching Students with Emotional Disorders Agenda

This seminar will be presented by Michael Friga and Ed J. Sarzynski.

8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration

8:30 am - 8:45 am Overview

8:45 am - 10:00 am Creating Successful Learning Environments

- Prevention-Based Programs: PBIS

- Proactive Classroom Management

- De-Escalation

- Assessment in PBIS Programs

10:00 am - 10:15 am Break

10:15 am - 10:45 am Creating Successful Learning Environments (Continued)

10:45 am - 12:00 pm Evaluations, Eligibility Determination, Placement - IDEA and Section 504

- Duty to Evaluate - Timelines

- Independent Educational Evaluation - Criteria - Board Policy

- Initial Evaluation: Functional Behavioral Assessment and Written Consent?

- Eligibility, Classification, Emotional Disturbance, ODD, ADD and ADHD

- Initial Placement - No Consent, No Hearing

- Least Restrictive Environment

Individualized Education Program and Section 504 Accommodation Plan

- Notice of Meeting - Required Components - Procedural Safeguard Rights

- Mandated Members vs. Required Members

- Attendance Not Necessary and Excusal

- Parent Participation and Nonattendance

- Making Recommendations - Voting, Consensus and School District Representative

- Parent and District Agreement Not to Have Meeting - Huge Pitfall

- Goals, Objectives and Benchmarks

- Physical Intervention and Physical Restraint

- Functional Behavioral Assessment - Behavioral Intervention Plan - Behavioral Management Plan

- Accessibility of IEP, Accommodation Plan to Teachers and Support Staff

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (On Your Own)

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Discipline

- Time-Out, Detention and Aversives

- 10-Day Rule - How to Compute - ISS - Transportation

- 45 School Days Special Circumstances Rule - Removal to IAES

- Manifestation Determination - Timing and Criteria

- Dangerous Student, Drugs, Weapons and Serious Bodily Injury

- Suspension, Removal and Services - Pitfalls

- Declassification

- IDEA and Section 504 - Comparison

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Individualized Teaching

- "Why Does He Do That?" - Functional Assessment

- "How Do We Get Him to Do Something Else?" - Intervention

- Crisis Response

- Common Behavioral Challenges - Case Examples

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Questions and Answers

About The Training Provider: Lorman Education Services

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