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  It is Federal Law in the United States that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity for a free and appropriate education (Snowman and McCown, 2015). However, this does not mean the same thing for everyone. Disabilities vary and not all of them will qualify an individual for Special Education. This is where the 504 plans come into play (Understood Team, n.d.). Students with one of 13 specified disabilities or conditions which affect their ability to be taught successfully in general education are mandated to receive Special education by IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which first appeared in 1975 as the Education for all Handicapped Children Act. The 13 conditions range from Autism, Hearing or Visual Impairment to Specific Learning disabilities, Traumatic Brain Injury and Emotional Disturbance, amongst others. If you suffer from one of these condition to the point it has an adverse impact on your learning, and you need specialized in...

Special Education Issues Liam Breathnach Check out the Special education timeline attached… http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1553953 Special education is a topic of much debate. Anyone who knows anything about kids knows that they are all different, and have varying abilities and experiences. Teaching everyone in the same manner and hoping for a consistent outcome is doomed to fail. Modern education works is designed mainly for students within a ‘normal range” but compulsory attendance means schools must accommodate students beyond the norm (Snowman & McCown, 2015). Special education came into being in the middle of the last century due to pressure from public advocacy groups. Teachers began to be trained and after some Supreme Court decisions in the nineteen fifties students with special needs gained the same rights to education that everyone else had. When IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was enacted in 1972, schools were required to provi...

Heres a link to a presentation I made with friends Tania and Julie on the Carl Hiassen Book Hoot! Enjoy... https://docs.google.com/ presentation/d/ 1reumFApc6W2ybyYmJlEykxoSihxH3 pt8u5fo9zxbjuc/edit?usp= sharing Thanks Liam

ED 625 Literacy Tool Modeling Liam Breathnach In this assignment I will be working with Mindomo www.mindomo.com . The program helps students   with the construction of diagrams and flow charts. These tools can help differentiate the way students visualize, link and therefore retain material. The interface for the tool is clean and simple. I found the tools to be quite easy to gain some mastery of. There is a tutorial linked here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLcA13bsqg . The opening allows for a number of prepared templates, and you choose which basic one you wish to work with. Each heading allows you to drag from it and you can write your sub points or subtopics by clicking on each new opening. You have a tool bar for each which allows you to change shapes, colors, trim, fill and the other usual toys you see in programs like this. I do like that is a similar program to other ones people are likely comfortable with. Bits of Word or Photo Editing programs look simila...

ED 625 MD Tech Standards and Literacy Liam Breathnach I work in a school which has a 1-1 iPad program and if you ask the teachers how they feel about that, well, the jury is still out. There is no questions but we can do many more things than could be done in a classroom even 10 years ago, but technology comes with a burden. I often try to think back to my own days in classes and compare with modern day. Is the iPad the modern equivalent of staring out the window? Is it worse? Whatever your stance, technology is here to stay, in school and beyond. As teachers, our job is to send out mature people, capable of functioning in the world, and that does includes being able to use technology in a productive, safe manner (Flinders and Thornton, 2013). It may seem to anyone of my age that I am already slipping behind the waves of technology and that teenagers do not need my help in navigating new systems, but that is not entirely true. While students do adapt and adjust more quickl...