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Special Education in Ontario, Kindergarten to Grade 12
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5.2 Human Resources
Specific human resources required to facilitate the student’s learning must be identified in the IEP. The IEP should contain a record of direct instruction and/or consultation to be provided by special education teachers, as well as support services to be provided by non-teaching support staff.
The IEP of a student for whom a Special Incidence Portion (SIP) claim has been made to the ministry should include a record of the board-paid staff reflected in the claim.8
Teaching Staff
Special education teachers provide direct instruction in a regular class, in a resource-withdrawal classroom, or, where required, in a special education class. Special education teachers also provide consultation services for regular classroom teachers and the Kindergarten team, as well as other school and board staff (e.g., career and guidance teachers or psychologists) to assist them in developing programs and learning environments that are appropriate for the child or student.
It is not necessary to list the regular classroom teacher in the human resources section of an IEP.
Non-teaching Support Staff
Professional and/or paraprofessional9 special education support staff provide developmental, corrective, and other support services as may be required to meet the needs of the student. Non-teaching support staff
may include, but are not limited to, the following: educational assistants, speech pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, autism program providers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, child and youth workers, social workers, Indigenous support workers, and medical professionals.
8. Information about funding for support staff can be found in Part A of this guide. For more detailed information, see the Ministry of Education’s Special Education Funding Guidelines: Special Incidence Portion (SIP).
9. In this document, paraprofessional support staff refers to the staff listed in Appendix B-2: orientation and mobility personnel, oral interpreters, sign interpreters, transcribers, interveners, and auditory-verbal therapists.
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