With the passing of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,
or IDEA each public school child receiving special education must have
an Individualized Education Program (IEP). The IEP must be designed for
one student and must be a truly individualized document. This
IEP provides teachers, parents, school administrators, related services
personnel, and students to focus on the educational results of children
with disabilities. The IEP is the cornerstone of a quality education
for each child with a disability.
In order for a student to be eligible for an IEP federal law states
a multidisciplinary team must determine that the child has a disability
and requires special education and related services to benefit from the
general education program. To create an effective IEP, parents,
teachers, other school staff--and often the student--must come together
to look closely at the student's unique needs. These individuals pool
knowledge, experience and commitment to design an educational program
that will help the student be involved in, and progress in, the general
curriculum. The IEP guides the delivery of special education supports
and services for the student with a disability. Without a doubt,
writing--and implementing--an effective IEP requires teamwork.
IEP4U.com was developed to help teachers, parents and anyone
involved in the education of a child with a disability-develop and
carry out an IEP. The IDE Act requires certain information to be
included in each child's IEP. It is useful to know, however, that
states and local school systems often include additional information in
IEPs in order to document that they have met certain aspects of federal
or state law. The flexibility that states and school systems have to
design their own IEP forms is one reason why IEP forms may look
different from school system to school system or state to state. Yet
each IEP is critical in the education of a child with a disability.
IEP4U.COM
provides its members over 4000 free Goals and Objectives (IEP-ITP) each
with changeable benchmarks. IEP Idea Statements are spread out over
seven subjects (Domains) and four functional levels. Teachers, parents
and students can now access their own customized IEP objectives
directly from this Web Site. With a paid membership registered teachers
and educators will be able to modify objectives (examples) to exactly
describe the needs of your students. With prebuilt templates and the
abilities to pull pre-aproved sections from school districts IEP4U.com
was written to help provide the best IEP for the child while easing the
burden on the team building it.
Parents will be able to login review and if allowed approved their
child’s IEP. Kid section will give your students personal input to
write their own objectives (with your help) and to play some
interesting games as well. This information is designed to help you
with the daunting task of writing proper IEP's
The data within
this web site was written to correlate with the unique characteristics
of various formal assessments. Since assessment is essential for the
development of the IEP, specific questions were evaluated and idea
statements written based upon those questions. Searching the data for
idea statements by assessment will enable teachers to plan lessons
based upon how the student scored on the assessment