{"id":53,"date":"2011-08-27T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T19:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-11-25T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:30:33","slug":"the-r-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/2011\/08\/27\/the-r-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"The “R” Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resource Teachers\/Learning Assistance Teachers<\/em><\/h2>\n

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Resource or Learning Assistance (LAC) Teachers work with children with developmental delays or with learning disabilities in one-to-one or small group settings. \u00a0These teachers have received special training to work with children with additional needs in Special Education.<\/p>\n

LAC teachers play an active role in providing services to children with additional needs. LAC teachers work use the child\u2019s Individualized Educational Plan<\/a> (IEP) to develop a program that suits the child\u2019s needs. They do this work in collaboration with parents, the classroom teacher, others in the school-based team, for example, the school psychologist<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0and other professionals in the school and community. These include the following: special needs teacher\/educator, special needs assistants, counselors, speech language pathologists\/therapists (SLP)<\/a>, and school administrators, including the principal.<\/p>\n

Resource or LAC teachers collaborate with parents and other professionals. When children need specialized services, they assist with the referral process, for example, to physiotherapy<\/a> or to pediatric<\/a> developmental assessments. They also work closely with teachers and the School Based Team<\/a> <\/span>(SBT<\/span>) to plan, organize and\u00a0access support services for students with special needs.<\/p>\n

Resource teachers provide the major link with other support services available at the district<\/a> (see full Glossary<\/a>) level. Students who have severe disabilities usually require access to more specialized<\/a><\/span> programs and services. Resource teachers may work in a \u201cpull-out model\u201d when they take children out of their regular classroom for one-to-one or small group support.<\/p>\n

They may also work in a \u201cresource model\u201d in schools where they combine learning assistance with other special education services. This means that one resource teacher works with a number of classroom teachers to provide support for all students in their classroom. For example, students in the high and low incidence<\/a> (see full Glossary<\/a>) groups; those who have mild learning difficulties<\/a>; those who may need gifted <\/a><\/span>support<\/a> <\/span>or enrichment; and in some cases, those who are learning English as a second language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Resource Teachers\/Learning Assistance Teachers   Resource or Learning Assistance (LAC) Teachers work with children with developmental delays or with learning disabilities in one-to-one or small group settings. \u00a0These teachers have received special training to work with children with additional needs in Special Education. LAC teachers play an active role in providing services to children with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-2-the-r-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}