Case Study: Achieving Goals In An Individualized Education Program For Students With Special Needs

Proceedings of The 4th International Academic Conference on Education, Teaching and Learning

Year: 2021

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Case Study: Achieving Goals In An Individualized Education Program For Students With Special Needs

Petra Havaj Kuharič

ABSTRACT: 

The present article presents and analyzes the goals written in the individualized education program (hereinafter IEP) for children with special needs in a regular school. The first part deals with legislation in the field of IEP, how to prepare IEP, type of goals, the importance of planning annual goals and the purpose of IEP evaluation. The second part presents three students with special needs and their goals from the IEPs, as well as methods of achieving the written goals. The students have difficulties in the following fields: the technique of reading aloud, lack of organization and planning skills and long division method. The purpose of the presented goals and methods is to present an example of good practice and its findings.

keywords: children with special needs, individualized education program, achieving goals, additional professional support, case study.