Video Recording SPED 757

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  Hi. My name is Catherine Mesic, and this is my

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  project presentation for SPD 7 57 And my topic is

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  the inequality of early childhood special education or this assignment

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  I went through.

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  And I picked the, uh, three largest school district's in

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  Jackson County, Missouri, not including the Kansas City, Missouri, Public

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  school system.

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  And these are three suburban school districts that are similar

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  in size and somewhat similar in demographics.

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  And what I did is I compared their early childhood

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  special education numbers and data, and, um, compared it to

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  my own own home district, which is independence.

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  The three better being featured are the Blue Springs are

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  for school District, the least some in our seven school

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  district and the Independence Blister.

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  So just a little background information.

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  Let's talk about some historical data here.

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  Um, you go through this real quickly because there's an

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  awful lot of cover.

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  Basically, if you kind of look at the historical data

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  when it comes to early childhood special education enrollment in

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  these three different districts, red is Blue Springs.

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  Blue is independence, and white is the summit.

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  You'll notice that, um, Blue Springs is actually, uh, behind

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  in 2000.

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  Next is independence, and at least I'm I had a

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  little higher enrollment now 2000 was prior to the passing

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  of No Child Left Behind 2004 in which one of

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  the mandates was that early chartered special education, um, be

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  required. And so when that happened, this changed a lot

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  of the information and historical data that you'll see here,

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  Um, in that major school district's made renovations to the

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  way that they do early childhood special education.

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  The Blue Springs School District, in fact, in 2002 built

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  a giant facility for early childhood special education.

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  And so you can see that by 2005 their numbers

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  are through the roof.

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  When it comes to you who they're enrolling.

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  Um, same with Lee Summit.

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  They also anticipated this and created the facility themselves.

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  Now, if you notice independence actually went down in enrollment,

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  they have still to date in 2019 not created a

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  facility that is outlined especially for special education for early

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  childhood. And in fact, their numbers have been pretty stagnant

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  for a better part of almost 20 years now, where,

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  as you can see, an influx in blue Springs and

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  lease some of being providing these kinds of service is

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  when it also comes to incidents data.

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  And I won't go through all of that with you.

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  There are several charts in these different bubbles here, but

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  basically, incidence rates, um, are also reflected in the way

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  that enrollment is.

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  The higher incidence rates are in the independent school district,

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  where there are less students enrolled in early childhood special

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  education and the lowest incident rates are actually in least

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  summit, where they have a pretty high enrollment when it

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  comes to really try to special education and bear with

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  me here.

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  Sorry. There we go.

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  All right, So let's talk about the origins and evolution

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  when it comes to these three different districts.

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  So one thing to kind of consider is that, um,

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  early childhood special education is vital service that public districts

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  are supposed to provide for families within the district.

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  And so that being said, um, this is one of

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  the most important times that you should be investing as

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  school. Um, in these developing brains, this is the time

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  where you want to actually put the most money into

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  it. And so it was kind of disheartening to see

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  how different independence was in comparison to you.

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  The other two school district.

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  So, um, just, um, a quick recap of these different

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  school districts.

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  Lee Summit are seven School District spends almost $2000 more

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  than Blue Springs and almost $4500 more than Independence.

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  Her student when it comes to how much the district

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  actually will spend, Um, those numbers are incredibly staggering.

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  They also advertised quite a bit and all of their

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  mailers and communiques about the early chided special education program.

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  They work very closely with parents and teachers and have

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  a huge parents.

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  Is teachers a group and work very closely with first

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  steps as well, which is, um, kind of and Missouri's

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  called Missouri First Steps.

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  It's basically a birth to three year old program that

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  you can have if you feel like your child might,

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  um, have some sort of disability or learning issues, and

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  they come into your house.

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  They do different, um, testing and can kind of help

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  provide you with some support.

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  Until they reached three years of age from which they

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  could be enrolled and early childhood special education, Blue Springs

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  also, um, spends quite a bit money.

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  They are, however, $2000 less than the summit, on average

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  per student, However, they do have a huge early childhood

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  special education center.

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  Um, and they have really invested quite a bit in

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  early childhood.

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  Um, with their parents sutures program their first steps, um,

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  of conjunction with them.

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  Um, and then you have independence and independence.

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  Unfortunately, um, it does have head start and in head

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  start in percent of Head Start.

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  Students are supposed to be students being served, have a

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  disability of some sort.

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  However, I was not able to get any information at

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  all from Desi or from the district as to whether

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  or not that is actually happening in independence.

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  Um, they also spend the least amount per student, $4500

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  less, uh, then Lee Summit and $2000 less than Blue

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  Springs. And so, um, it's really something to kind of

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  consider. They also don't have any designated location for early

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  child special education other than to classrooms.

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  I'm at two different elementary schools.

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  They do provide busing for this, but, um, it's just

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  it's very minimal.

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  Um, and therefore they have actually capped their enrollment, even

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  though they don't talk about it.

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  There is a cap on enrollment because they actually can't

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  facilitate more than a certain amount of students at a

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  time. Um, something to also note about independence is that

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  they require a Social Security card for parents and students

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  in order to enroll your child in either the Head

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  Start program or the early childhood special education program, which

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  I'm not sure is completely legal.

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  But basically what it's doing is it's preventing some of

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  our Hispanic families who are here, um, you know, possibly

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  legally or are DACA students from being able Teoh, um,

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  get the service is that they need from you get

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  through this real quick.

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  Sorry. This is my first Prezi, um, presentation that I

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  have ever recorded.

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  So, um, so skipping through kind of some things, um,

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  you know, obviously, making connections are going to be things

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  like, um, early childhood.

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  Special education can actually make a huge difference in a

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  child's life.

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  It can actually provide them with the socio, um, emotional

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  status there, uh, skills they need, um it can also

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  help them with cognitive abilities.

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  I mean, it's what early childhood education in general provides,

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  um cannot be matched.

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  And so this is when we really need to be

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  investing. So when it comes to strategies and solutions, um,

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  you know, this is kind of hard to read, so

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  I'm gonna actually cover my face for a second.

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  Um, basically, some of strategies that I would really recommend

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  for the independent school district is and it's just needs

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  to start spending more money per student.

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  Um, that's a great way to start, but it also

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  needs to start doing some different things, like screaming its

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  head start students.

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  I'm kind of the way that you would do a

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  screens for kindergarten.

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  This might help identify kids a little bit earlier and

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  get them that extra set of, um, resource is that

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  they need Maybe it's SLP.

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  Maybe it's O.

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  T. It's hard to say, but my point is is

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  that we're not screen a lot of our head start

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  kids, and so that needs to be done.

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  Other things that we need to kind of think about

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  is the fact that we need to stop requiring a

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  so security number in order to be enrolled.

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  Um, I still have no idea how that is even

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  legal. Um, but a human says it on our school

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  district's website.

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  And then, of course, at the at the very least,

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  we need Teoh have a designated location, um, in which

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  we are able to facilitate these early learners.

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  Um, we need to increase our enrollment, and we need

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  to figure out how we can really invest in these

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  Children's future is, As of right now, we're not really

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  doing that in the independents.