Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Texas SPED Support’s Monthly Instructional Guides help special education teachers in self-contained classrooms navigate the school year. Each month contains relevant content and resources.

 This video shows one educator sharing how she uses a duration collection form. This form is intended for use by teachers, paraprofessionals, and other service providers collecting data for student Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and baseline data to determine a need for new/updated IEP goals or behavior intervention.  

This video shows one educator sharing how she uses the strategy of recasting to model articulation, grammar, and vocabulary. Recasting is repeating what a student says with an expansion as a means of giving implicit and direct feedback. It promotes using complete and grammatically correct sentences

In this video, Ayo Jones discusses how to teach routines and procedures.

This video shows one educator sharing how she uses the various features of a single-button mid-tech augmentative and alternative communication device with students in her classroom.