Videos

Executive skills refer to the cognitive processes required to plan and organize activities, including task initiation and follow through, planning/organization, working memory, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and self-regulation. Executive skills involve the integration of information across brain regions, particularly the frontal lobes, and therefore any type of significant acquired brain injury is likely to negatively impact executive skills. These skills are at the heart of what is seen as independent problem solving, goal directed persistence, and motivation. Students with executive skill deficits have problems in all these domains, and they present tremendous challenges to both parents and teachers who often find themselves frustrated by children whose problems in school seem to have little to do with how smart they are or how easily they learn.

Executive skills refer to the cognitive processes required to plan and organize activities, including task initiation and follow through, planning/organization, working memory, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and self-regulation. Executive skills involve the integration of information across brain regions, particularly the frontal lobes, and therefore any type of significant acquired brain injury is likely to negatively impact executive skills. These skills are at the heart of what is seen as independent problem solving, goal directed persistence, and motivation. Students with executive skill deficits have problems in all these domains, and they present tremendous challenges to both parents and teachers who often find themselves frustrated by children whose problems in school seem to have little to do with how smart they are or how easily they learn.

Youth from across Pennsylvania are describing what they are doing to “Make it Happen” during their time in quarantine. Tips are shared from students as young as two years old, to seniors in high school. Ideas around academics, behavior and social-emotional strategies are noted.

This video highlights several high school students who are involved with the State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) to increase graduation rates and decrease dropout rates. They share their challenges and how to overcome them in order graduate. In addition, they note their goals after graduation and a checklist is provided to guide and encourage students to stay on track in order to complete school.

Have you heard your teachers and family talk about your IEP? This video offers an introduction to Student-Led Individualized Education Program (SLIEP) Team Meetings for youth and families, along with practical ways to begin implementing them in their school. For more information on Student-Led IEPs, visit the PaTTAN site at https://sites.google.com/pattan.net/sliep/ or contact sliep [at] pattanpgh.net

After viewing this video, participants will have information about understanding the Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses (PSW) method and be able to: -Describe the PSW method and the conceptual similarities among the most widely used PSW approaches -Recognize how PSW models differ and the implications for those differences -Use data from a comprehensive evaluation and PSW analysis to inform SLD identification and intervention -Identify why and how measurement of specific academic skills and measurement of specific cognitive abilities and processes inform intervention in different ways

The Bureau of Special Education is partnering with a number of LEAs to implement its State Systemic Improvement Plan. BSE is also partnering with the federally funded Community Parent Resource Center Hispanos Unidos para Niños Excepcionales (HUNE). Community and mentoring materials and resources developed through this partnership are being shared with other organizations. The Students Voices video showcases the program HUNE offers to ensure students stay in school, graduate, and become contributing members of society.

This webinar will look at the varied manifestations of CVI for children of all ages including those with additional disabilities with a coordinated approach that leads to individualized CVI Profiles. This is webinar two of an 8-part series.

This session will describe Federal and state requirements regarding the provision of physical education services to students with disabilities and will offer practical activities and modifications to specific audience concerns for physical education services in the public schools for students with low incidence disabilities.