Individualized Transition Plan Assignment

EDSP 370

Michael Jones Case Study

Overview

Personal Information

Age – 16 years old

Grade – 11th (IEP is written at beginning of 11th grade)

Identification: ID (Intellectual Disability); found eligible and began receiving special education services in 2nd grade

Parent(s) and Address: Susie Jones and Robert Jones

111 Main Street

Normalville, VA 22222

Home Phone – 434-434-4343

Work Phone – 434-344-3344

Demeanor

He is currently working on increasing attending skills and working independently on work. Working on being more positive with work – he can get frustrated but does try to improve. Frustration can lead to refusal to work, yelling, and throwing his pencil or shoving everything off his desk. He is somewhat behind peers in social development, particularly in interactions with others.

Strengths: improved attitude towards his work and his pride in his accomplishments.

Weakness: difficulty handling his frustration, difficulty learning new skills and generalizing skills to new/different environments

Logistical Information

For purposes of this assignment, you are writing the IEP and then viewing it as a new IEP, as if today was mid-November, soon after the IEP meeting.

The IEP meeting for this student was scheduled for November 1, 20__ (this year). In attendance were Dr. Sally Knowsalot (the school psychologist), Mr. Fred Disciplinesalot (the Asst Principal), ___________ (the IEP Case Worker and teacher), Dr. Dana Administersalot (from the School Board Office), one of the parents, Michael, and Carl Teachesalot (the Regular Ed Teacher). The teacher informed the parent and student of the IEP meeting on October 9, 20__ (this year). The last IEP meeting took place on November 2, 20__ (last year). A re-evaluation process occurred before the last IEP meeting (on September 1, 20__ - last year) and is not to be re-performed until September 1, 20__ (two years from now).

Academic Analysis

The following are notes provided on Michael’s progress in the previous school year.

Math

· Improving addition and subtraction

· Can do single digit plus and minus single digit

· Needs reminding to regroup

· Enjoys multiplication/ tries hard here (able to recite facts up to 3’s table but usually needs help)

· Struggles with money

· Needs work on recognizing money (paper and coin)

· Needs work on making change (at any level)

· Needs work on adding coins

Language Arts

· Can recite, read alphabet.

· Improving in reading (reading short k-1st grade level books)

· Better in recognizing vocabulary in primer Dolch group (should continue to work on this level)

· Better in phonetically sounding out unfamiliar kindergarten and first grade level vocabulary words (should continue to work on this)

· Needs to work on writing

· Tries to write complete sentences (recognizes need for capital letter and punctuation)

· Poor spelling on vocabulary words at 1st grade and higher

· Struggles with written expression

· Needs to work on reading comprehension (cannot recall comprehension facts for stories of more than a few sentences)

· Can be overly confident (tries to convince staff that he “has it” when he doesn’t)

· Improving on reading directions before beginning assignments

Social Studies and Science

· Needs work on direction and map skills

· Needs to improve participation in classroom discussions

· Continues to “day dream” and needs to prompting to pay attention

· Questions often need repeating

· He will answer anyway (mostly incorrectly)

· Improved on positive attitude when class reacts to incorrect answers

· Enjoys PE and competition with peers

Life Skills

· Continues to make progress in personal hygiene skills

· Washing hands and face

· Brushing teeth

· Independent table manners

· No incidence of self-induced vomiting this year.

· Needs to work on communication skills with peers

· Exhibits difficulty with personal space and turn-taking when communicating with others

· Difficulty handling frustration (but improving)

· Responds well to praise

· Responds well to one-on-one attention

· Responds well to immediate consequences.

· Loves to work alone and with his hands. Has an interest in automobiles.

· Sees himself living alone after high school.

Diagnostic Testing

Brigance Diagnostic Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills

Test	September 20, __ (4 years ago)	September 20, __ (last year)
Word Recognition	Primer	Grade 1
Reading Vocabulary	could not do	could not do
Word Analysis	could not do	could not do
Spelling	Grade 1	Grade 1
Computational Skills	Grade 1	Grade 2
Problem Solving	could not do	Grade 1
Sentence Writing	Test not administered	could not do

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (Fourth Edition)

Assessed September 20, ___ (last year): IQ 50

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