IEP: Supplementary Aids & Related Services, and Assessment M

What types of services are being used in the schools?

• 61.9% are provided extra time to take tests or complete assignments.
• 36.8% are given shorter or different assignments.
• 35.3% have tests read to them.
• 33.4% take modified tests.
• 33.3% receive feedback more frequently than other children.
• 30.4% receive slower-paced instruction.
• 0.7% are provided physical adaptations.

Suppose a child needs...

Suppose a child needs a specific supplementary aid or service that’s typically provided in separate environments, not in the regular education classroom? Does this mean that the needed supplementary aid or service doesn’t have to be provided? Or that the child’s placement may then be somewhere other than the regular educational environment?

No, to both questions. The public agency is responsible for providing the supplementary aids and services that the IEP team determines the child needs and lists in the child’s IEP in order to enable the child to be educated in regular education settings with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate.

The fact that supplementary aids and services often play a decisive role in whether or not the child can be satisfactorily educated in the regular educational environment makes it all the more important that the public agency meet its responsibility to provide them. If the IEP team has determined that the child can be satisfactorily educated in the regular classroom with the support of a given supplementary aid or service, those aids or services must be specified in the child’s IEP and must be provided to the child.

Purpose of Related Services

Services provided to students should enable them:

Assessment Accommodations

a) to advance appropriately toward attaining goals

b) to be involved in and progress in the general education curriculum & to participate in extracurricular & other nonacademic activities

c) to be educated with other children with & without disabilities

Related Services

Students with disabilities are to take the regular statewide assessment unless the IEP specifies how they will take the test or specifies that the student will take an alternate assessment & then justifies why this is necessary.

Related services help children with disabilities benefit from their special education by providing extra help and support in needed areas, such as speaking or moving. Related services can include, but are not limited to, any of the following:

Supplementary Aids

• Supplementary aids and services means aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classes, other education-related settings, and in extracurricular and nonacademic settings, to enable children with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate

• Occupational therapy
• Physical therapy
• Speech therapy or audiology
• Interpreter services
• Psychological services
• Social workers

Examples include:

• Presentation Accommodations
• Response Accommodations
• Setting Accommodations
• Timing & Scheduling Accommodations

• This includes:
• Supports to address environmental needs
• Levels of staff support needed
• Planning time
• Child's specialized equipment needs
• Pacing of instruction needed
• Assignment modification needed

Resources

http://nichcy.org/schoolage/iep/iepcontents/assessment

http://nichcy.org/schoolage/iep/iepcontents/relatedservices

http://nichcy.org/schoolage/iep/iepcontents/supplementary

Yell, Mitchell L. The Law and Special Education. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2012. Print.

dese.mo.gov/se/mssd/supplementaryaids.html

IEP: Supplementary Aids & Related Services, and Assessment Modifications