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Student Profile (Confidential)

Vanessa (11 years)


Student ______________________ 6
Grade ____ 2012–2013
School year ________________

Classroom teacher Patterson IEP Manager Bosc

Team meetings Conduct core team meeting once per marking period; conduct whole-team meetings ap-
proximately once per semester.

Special education and related services Learning and behavioral strengths

 Special education instruction 60 minutes x • Math: She loves it and excels in all types of
5 days for English and history computations and mathematical reasoning.
 Special education consultation 15 minutes x • She is generally eager to please and friendly.
3 days for science
 Aide support 30 minutes x 5 days to moni-
Learning and behavioral challenges
tor and support arrival and departure
 Speech or language • Reading: She reads at lower fourth-grade
level, is very hesitant to read orally, and gets
 Occupational therapy discouraged when faced with more than a few
 Physical therapy paragraphs of text.
 Other Counseling from community services • Writing: She has good ideas but lacks strate-
school system liaison, 30 minutes per week gies.
• Organization: She has difculty managing her
belongings, and her assignments are often late
or incomplete.
• Low frustration tolerance: She shuts down
when stressed.

Learns best by Likes and interests

 Visual (words, pictures, videos, graphics) • Math, computers


 Verbal or linguistic experience • Music, music, and more music
 Teacher or peer modeling • Drawing and painting
 Hands-on work, labs, projects
 Movement
 Multisensory approach (all of the
above) Dislikes

• Attention called to her special needs

Teaching strategies that HAVE worked Teaching strategies that have NOT worked

• Visual organizers and checklists • Lectures with no visuals added


• Guided notes or slot notes • Reading supports and adaptations that call
• Electronic text reader or option to have parents attention to her reading level
read with her at home • Written assignments with no model provided
• Previewing of content and vocabulary

Figure 2.12.  Student Profile for Vanessa, a middle school student. (Key: IEP, individualized education program.) (See
Appendix A for a blank, photocopiable version of this form.

In Teachers’ Guides to Inclusive Practices: Modifying Schoolwork, Third Edition by Rachel Janney and Martha E. Snell (2013, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.).

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