Special Education Students and Behavior Management

Within legislatively mandated requirements for the education of designated special education students are special considerations for their disciplining when they are engaged in infractions of codes of discipline. Efforts to mainstream children with individual educational programs requires their participation in school activities provided by faculty who are not certified in special education and who may be misinformed about instituting appropriate discipline for special needs students. This seminar provides an overview of the regulations regarding the procedures for handling disruptive conduct attributed to special education students and the criteria for determining whether disruptive conduct is actionable through prescribed disciplinary codes.

Educators will become familiar with special education diagnosis and the symptoms manifested by students within the various categories. They will learn to evaluate disruptive behavior in terms of individual student’s disabilities so as to become more familiar with causative factors affecting conduct which may be a product of the individual disability and not actionable through general disciplinary protocols. The goal of the training is to better familiarize educators with handling discipline problems of special education through a better understanding of the available remedies for dealing with these problems including how to differentiate among behaviors which are related to the student’s disability from those which are subject to generally established discipline protocols.