Accommodations made for students with IEPs may include more time a quieter space for students to complete schoolwork or shorter assignments to avoid overwhelming students with nonverbal learning disabilities.
Almira Elementary School strives to help students with individualized education plans grow at their own pace. For this innovative series called Cleveland's Promise, Cleveland Metropolitan School District gave two reporters unprecedented access to a classroom at Almira Elementary School to show readers the enormous challenges of educating children in poverty and what the school district is doing to overcome them.
Ms. Martin, who works with third and fourth graders on math and English language arts, is part of Almira’s Student Support Team, which provides early intervention for students who might have learning disabilities. Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer have embedded for the past year at Almira to document the many challenges that Cleveland teachers face while educating children whose lives are complicated by poverty.
The resulting educational plan covers all the accommodations that the school will provide. Those might include more time and a quieter space for students to complete schoolwork or tests, text-to-speech software and audiobooks for students with dyslexia, or shorter assignments to avoid overwhelming students with nonverbal learning disabilities.
About 22% of CMSD’s student population, or about 8,200 students, has an IEP. The state average is about 16%, and the national average is about 14%. At Almira, about 19% of the students have IEPs, Ms. Baldwin said. Almira’s Ms. Martin points out, however, that a school can’t design an IEP without parental approval -- and parents aren’t always receptive to their child having an IEP because of the perceived stigma associated with them.
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