{"id":472,"date":"2010-01-04T10:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/k12blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:29:55","slug":"special-ed-or-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/special-ed-or-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Ed or Language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"> Here&#8217;s my understanding of the best approaches regarding<strong> &#8220;How to Tell if it&#8217;s a Special Education of Language Issue&#8221;<\/strong> and it centers around the <em>parent <\/em>as expert concerning their child.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">(1) Is the parent concerned about the child&#8217;s level of performance?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">(2) How does this child compare to other children in the same family? at a comparable age?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n(3) When assessing language development look at both the number of words a student knows\/understands in BOTH languages: eg. English AND Spanish<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">So, <strong>the big take-aways<\/strong> are<strong> (1) trust the parent and (2) give &#8220;credit&#8221; for what the student knows and can do in their native language<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\">What are your thoughts?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my understanding of the best approaches regarding &#8220;How to Tell if it&#8217;s a Special Education of Language Issue&#8221; and it centers around the parent as expert concerning their child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38],"tags":[1613,68,71,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}