what is the accommodation of a undiagnosed child and what you should do as a beginning SPED teacher?

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A 10 year-old child 2nd grade pupil suffers from the diasbility. she is undiagnosed by a medical expert and is, therefore, not benefiting from any secial educational accommodation that your school is supposed to offer. what should you do as a beginning SPED teacher?

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Answer by Sunshine
Simple, take the child to different specialists, and if she has a problem, it will be diagnosed or she will be labeled as disabled and will be able to benefit from special education programs.

I think that as a beginning special education teacher you should stop saying “SPED”, because it’s a derogatory term often used by children in lieu of freak, stupid, or retard.

Answer by suzie_lea_2007
You can ask the parents to get her tested which should lead to a diagnosis which should lead to her being able to access special education facilities or accomodations which the school offers.

In the meantime you could offer to let her be in a group with some other children with a simalar disability to help her.

You could also get a volunteer/parent helper to work with her.

In the preschool I did volunteer work at there was a child who was in the process of getting a diagnosis but as his diagnosis was not complete he could not have an aide so I got to work with him as his aide

Answer by TeacherMom
Refer her to the special ed coordinator at your school. If there’s not one, go to the district level. There are guidelines and procedures to follow in order to get testing done. As a new SPED teacher, you probably shouldn’t discuss the suspected disability until a supervisor has advised you of the correct procedures.

Answer by jdeekdee
I’m not sure if you are in US, but if you are, you are not legally suppose to do ANYTHING since the child is not in special ed and not recieving any services from this.

Yes you can help anyway, but without the child being in special ed, without the school doing a formal evaluation to see what the childs problems are, HOW will you know what to do? HOW will you know what the child needs?

Children with disablities need ‘specialized’ programs that help them. And schools in USA can not legally offer these programs to a child UNLESS they are in special ed.

As a special ed teacher, you aer ONLY suppose to help children that are IN special ed.

If the child has a disability, why is she NOT in special ed?

Answer by MeInThisWorld
Special Education is based on educational need-not medical diagnosis-

the medical diagnosis may lead to identication of teh eduicational need-butit is not necessary

The child shoudl be evaluated by the Child Study Team despite tehlack of diagnosis-and be given special education services based on his educational (not medical needs)

Some disabilities can be accommodated through a 504 plan instead of special education

My college referred to Special Ed as SPED