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Special Education
Students who have behavioural, communicational, intellectual, physical or multiple exceptionalities, may require special education programs and /or services to benefit fully from their school experience.
Special education programs and services primarily consist of instruction and assessments that are different from those provided to the general student population. These may take the form of accommodations (such as specific teaching strategies, preferential seating, and assistive technology) and/or an educational program that is modified from the age-appropriate grade level expectations in a particular course or subject, as outlined in the Ministry of Education's curriculum policy documents.
Overview
Resolving Identification or Placement Issues
Policy Direction
Resource Documents
In addition to policy documents, the ministry has published a number of resource documents to assist school boards in implementing policies and delivering high-quality special education programs and services.
- Caring and Safe Schools in Ontario: Supporting Students With Special Education Needs Through Progressive Discipline, Kindergarten to Grade 12 sets out a framework that system and school leaders may use to strengthen schools' ability to provide a caring and safe environment with respect to students with special education needs. (PDF, 1.29 MB)
- Shared Solutions – A Guide to Preventing and Resolving Conflicts Regarding Programs and Services for Students with Special Education Needs
- Effective Educational Practices for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Special Education Funding Guidelines: Special Equipment Amount (SEA) and Special Incidence Portion (SIP), 2006–07 (PDF, 57 KB)
- Special Education Transformation: The Report of the Co-Chairs with the Recommendations of the Working Table on Special Education, 2006
The report of the Co-Chairs with the Recommendations of the Working Table on Special Education
- Education for All: The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy and Numeracy Instruction for Students with Special Education Needs, Kindergarten to Grade 6, 2005
This report recommends practices, based on research, that allows Ontario's teachers to improve and reinforce effective instruction of reading, writing, oral communication, and mathematics to students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 who have special education needs.
- Early School Leavers: Understanding the Lived Reality of Student Disengagement from Secondary School, 2005 (PDF, 973 KB)
The Ontario Ministry of Education is committed to further understanding and addressing the issues associated with young people who are presently leaving the secondary school system prior to earning their diploma.
- Planning Entry to School – A Resource Guide, 2005
- Guidelines 2005 – For Approval of Education Programs for Pupils in Government Approved Care and/or Treatment, Custody and Correctional Facilities
- The Individual Education Plan (IEP), A Resource Guide, 2004
This guide is intended to help teachers and others working with students with special needs to develop, implement, and monitor high-quality IEPs. A five-step process is recommended. Suggestions and examples are provided, but IEPs, by their very nature, will be individualized on the basis of the particular requirements of the student.
- Transition Planning: A Resource Guide, 2002
This guide provides a range of suggestions on achieving a successful transition for schools, parents, employers and community agencies, and providers of further education to develop coordinated transition plans for exceptional students.
- Special Education, A Guide for Educators, 2001
This publication replaces the Special Education Information Handbook, 1984. It reflects the many changes that have taken place in legislation, regulations, policy, and educational practice since publication of the earlier document.
- Highlights of Regulation 181/98: Identification and Placement of Exceptional Pupils provides a summary of the key provisions of this regulation. Readers should refer to Regulation 181/98 itself rather than to this summary for the exact wording of the relevant sections.
- The Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) Information Program, developed by the ministry, assists SEAC members in undertaking the roles and responsibilities ascribed to them by legislation.
- Older Resource Documents
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