Medically fragile classroom

Emma Haring shares years of experience creating schedules and lessons that work in her medically fragile moderate/severe special ed class. Learn how to help students with multiple disabilities be prepared for emergencies. Get Lesson ideas and tips, and a freebie to help you create your lesson plans. #helpforspecialeducatorspodcast

How are you using task systems in your multiple disability classroom? In this blog post I go over activity rotations that you can incorporate to find independent work that fits for all of your multiple disability students. I include a list of all my special education activities such as bead bars, sensory boards, and swinging bear that are all great ways to involve sound, texture and color. Read through all of my special education ideas on implementing a structured activity rotation here.

All long time ago and very, very far away from my current location, I got my first job as an SLP. In addition to many students in the general education setting, I served two severely impaired classrooms. In one class, the students spent much of the day on side liers being tube fed and given

Implementation Active Learning is more than equipment or materials. It is an approach that can be used to implement instruction in general curriculum and expanded core curriculum, and also to support therapies such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, music therapy, and speech therapy. These ideas can also be used in the home or community.Some things

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When the money you raise with the classroom bake sale doesn't quite meet your needs, it's time to get creative. Enjoy these photos, and one short movie clip, that feature an activity board designed and fabricated by a teacher for elementary students with severe disabilities. All of the toys came from the local 99 cent store. There are many adults in this classroom and the students who use the activity board are closely supervised.

We live in a digital world... technology is all around us! Our kiddos with disabilities should have the same opportunity to learn to use technology as students who are "typically developing." As special education teachers, it can be difficult to find ways that our kiddos can access technology. I've always loved switch activated cause and effect toys and games, but switch toys are expensive and my kids get bored of them after a few weeks of playing with them. When it comes to technology, I…

Looking for some easy meaningful ways to BIGMack in your classroom? Here are 5 quick and easy ideas that will you incorporate BIGMacks with your students!

We can use switches for communication (like recordable switches) and we can use them to access items with wired or wireless switches.