SUHSD Special Services - Distance Learning Resources

Special Services : Students with Disabilities (SWD)

Accessible Reasonable Appropriate

Special Services is dedicated to ensuring students with disabilities have equitable access through distance learning opportunities

Four Priorities for Special Education

Focus on Safety, health and welfare of students, parents and staff members in our community.
Provide FAPE-Deliver services to as many students as we reasonably can in the best way we know how.
Document our efforts; make sure documentation is focused, consistent, detailed, and demonstrates a good faith effort to provide good services.
Compliance during the pandemic-IDEA wasn’t built for this.

Message by US Office of Special Education Program

On March 23, 2020, the US Office of Special Education Program shared, “Where technology itself imposes a barrier to access or where educational materials simply are not available in an accessible format, educators may still meet their legal obligations by providing children with disabilities equally effective alternate access to the curriculum or services provided to other students. Consider practices such as distance instruction, teletherapy and tele-intervention, meetings held on digital platforms, online options for data tracking, and documentation. In addition, there are low-tech strategies that can provide for an exchange of curriculum-based resources, instructional packets, projects, and written assignments.”

Least Restrictive Environment Guidance

To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are nondisabled; and special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.