Aligning IEPs to Academic Standards

With increased emphasis on students meeting academic standards, instructors of students with moderate and severe disabilities have wondered about their role. Will they continue to integrate their students in the regular classrooms and in the general curriculum? Or will their participation in alternate assessments aligned to alternate achievement standards continue to keep them in self-contained classrooms?
According to authors Ginevra Courtade-Little and Diane Browder, the answer lies in aligning students’ IEPs to state standards consistent with students’ grade and ability levels. Help students with significant disabilities can participate in parallel activities directly related to the general curriculum. It’s simple: Write IEP goals on standard-based content areas that are appropriate for a student’s grade level and ability. This valuable and unique book does just that: Shows you how to construct student IEPs with goals aligned to each state’s academic content standards at student grade level and ability.