Special Education
Special Education and Support Services
Global Concepts Charter School
Guide to Special Education and Student Support Services
Global Concepts Charter School
K-8 Building
1001 Ridge Road
Lackawanna, NY 14218
Global Concepts Charter High School
30 Johnson Street
Lackawanna, NY 14218
Special Education and Student
Support Services Office
716-821-1903, ext. 2007
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES
What is Response to Intervention? (RtI)
- Multi-tier approach to supporting students through interventions
- Begins with high-quality instruction in the classroom and universal screening of all students
- Students who are not progressing are referred for interventions
- Interventions are provided in:
- Literacy/Reading
- Mathematics
- Speech enrichment
- Occupational Therapy enrichment
- Physical Therapy enrichment
- Social/Emotional Counseling
- Data collection is used to determine if students respond to intervention
- Students who have not shown significant progress may be referred for a full individual evaluation through the home district’s Committee on Special Education.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Global Concepts Charter School will educate students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment with their non-disabled peers, as allowed by their Individual Education Plan (IEP). Individual Education Plans are developed in cooperation with the Committee on Special Education (CSE) of the students’ school district of residence.
Highly qualified and certified special education teachers will provide consultant teacher services and resource room services as indicated on Individual Education Plans.
How is special education defined in
New York State?
Special education means specially designed individualized or group instruction or special services or programs and special transportation, provided at no cost to the parent, to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities.
What is specially designed instruction?
Specially designed instruction means adapting, as appropriate to the needs of an eligible student, the content, methodology, or delivery of instruction to address the unique needs that result from the student's disability; and to ensure access of the student to the general curriculum, so that he or she can meet the educational standards that apply to all students
PROGRAMS AT GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL
Consultant Teaching (CT)
- pushes directly into the general education classroom to provide specially designed instruction
- helps keep students on task
- makes needed modifications to classroom assignments
Resource Room (RR)
- supplements regular classroom instruction
- provides direct specialized instruction
- instruction targets specific deficits as noted in the student's Annual Goals
Related Services
Providers deliver services in an individual or group setting in:
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Social/Emotional Counseling