Exceptional+Children+Services

=**Exceptional Children Services refers to students who have been identified with an educational challenge that receive services that assist the student with the educational challenge.** =

__**Parental Resources:**__
The link given below will link you directly to the Oldham County Public Schools ECS website for any necessary information and direct contact with people that oversee the ECS programs in Oldham County.[|ECS Website]

[|Kentucky Autsim Training Guide] is a great place to find information on Autism and resources but also provides an inventory of doctors, dentist and physicians.

[|Individuals with Disabilities Education Act] This website addresses the law revolved around special education and addresses student and parental rights.

[|Individual Education Plan] This website addresses what an IEP is and what you need to know as a parent. There is also a listening option.

[|Acronyms and Definitons] This website addresses all the acronyms and wording used in special education.

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__**Student Resources:**__
Fun Websites to visit that are educational:

__Reading:__ [|Starfall] [|Build a Word] [|ABC ya!] [|PBS Kids] [|Clifford Books] (Books here are read in English and Spanish) [|Storyline Online]

[|Scholastic for Ages 3-7] [|Scholastic for Ages 8-12] Raz-Kids (make sure to get your teachers username)

__Writing:__ [|Create your own Story] [|Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus] [|Storymaker]

__Math:__ [|Hundred Chart] [|Math Playground] [|Money] [|Time] [|Math Tools and Games] [|Place Value]

__Social Studies and Science:__ __Behavior:__ [|PBS Kids: Bullies] [|Kids Against Bullying]
 * __[|National Geographic Kids]__ [|Time Magazine for Kids] [|Science for Kids]**

[|Technology Class Sites]

__**Strateigies for Reading: **__

 * **Model reading for them **
 * **Choral reading **
 * **Repeative reading and books (Ex. Dr. Suess books, Brown Bear Brown Bear) **
 * **Sounding out words **
 * **Finding smaller words within bigger words **
 * **Looking for word families (Ex. ap, op, ag) **
 * **Finding Spelling Words within books **
 * **Auditory Books **
 * **Looking for Context Clues **
 * **Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions, Main Idea, Making Connections, Retelling, Inferring, Making Predictions, Story Elements (characters, plot, beginning, middle, end, and setting) and etc... **
 * **Reading signs and materials around them (cereal box, exit signs, newspaper, and etc...) **
 * Visiting a website that focuses on Reading.
 * Exposing them to many genres of books
 * When practicing visualization read a book to your child without showing them the words or pictures and have them draw what they visualize or picture in their mind.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Strategies for Writing:

 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Model writing for them
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Write incorrect sentences and have them pick it apart
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Brainstorming
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Editing
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Spelling words
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Providing them with many forms of writing (newspaper articles, stories, personal narratives)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Get them familiar with dictionaries and encyclopedias
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Visiting a writing website
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Giving students writing prompts and having them finish it. Ex. One day I went to school and it was closed..... Or I walked outside and there was a dinosaur....

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Strategies for Math:

 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Picking apart word problems looking for power verbs (describe, how many, sum, total, how many in all, difference, and etc...)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Using manipulatives (hundreds charts, number lines, pattern blocks, counting cubes and etc...)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Double Check answer
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Learn basic facts from addition to division
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Use or draw a picture
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Look for a pattern
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Write a number sentence
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Use actions (operations) such as add, subtract, multiply, divide
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Make or use a table
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Make or use a list
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Work a simpler problem
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Work backwards to solve a problem
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Act out the situation
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Look for 2D and 3D shapes around you
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Counting up (addition) Ex. 5+5=? Start at 5 and count up 5 where did you stop?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Counting down (subtraction) Ex. 5-5=? Start at 5 and count down 5 where did you stop?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Visit a Math website
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Work on Basic Facts (addition: +1, +2, and Doubles; multiplication tables; subtraction: -1 and -2)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Play a Math Game
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Play a Board Game (Hi Ho Cherry O, UNO, Phase 10, Yahtzee, Bingo, Go Fish and etc...)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Watch a Math Video

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Strategies for Behavior:

 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Visual timer for completing tasks
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Rewards and reinforcements for positive behavior (student/child chosen)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Ignoring inappropriate behavior and giving it a replacement behavior
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Setting Rules and Consequences together
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Modeling appropriate behavior
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Role play situations (right/wrong)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Routines
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Checklists
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Redirecting
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Visit a behavior website
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Watch a behavior video
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">[|Behavior Charts]


 * __Website Resources for Teachers:__**
 * __[|PBS Math]__**
 * __[|Cool Math for Teachers]__**
 * __[|Reading Rocket]__**