Katy ISD Special Education Highlights

2013-14

• Executive Director will have
visited all 57 campuses and met
with principals and visited
special education classrooms.

• As of March 1, 2014, the special
education staff made 1183
campus visits in the 2013-14
school year including:

• Area One = 427 visits

• Area Two = 362 visits

• Area Three = 394 visits

• There were 4,974 ARD
meetings held in 2013-14

• There were 641 Initial special
education evaluations in
2013-14

• There were 1488 requests for
interpreters at ARD meetings
in 2013-14 with 40
languages other than Spanish

Distribution of Bilingual Speech/Language Referrals
By Languages Other Than Spanish
As of March 1, 2014

Tamil Telugu Africaans Amharic Arabic
4% 3% 1% 1% 12%

Tagalog Yoruba Bahasa Bengali
1% 1% 1% 1% Cebuano
1%
Vietnamese
5% Croatian
3%
Urdu Danish
7% 1%
Ejaw
Swedish 1%
1% Farsi
1%
Sinhala
1%

Russian Filipino
4% 1%

French
1%

Portuguese Gujarati
7% 3%

Shanghainese Korean Hiligaynon
1% 3%
Hindi 3%
Pidgin English
1% Norsk Ibo 1%
1%
3%

Mandarin Indonesian
16% Khmer 4%

1%

• Special education department
directors reviewed student
folders for students who took
the STAAR-Modified tests using
a folder review process on 37
campuses in 2013-14

• Principals requested that the
department offer
paraprofessionals training
opportunities and sessions
were offered on the following
dates:

• PPCD Paraprofessional Training
from PPCD assessment team--
October 4, 2013

• CPI Training on November 8,
2013

• CPI Training and In-Class-
Support on January 6, 2014

• Special Education is
providing 50 course
offerings at MRHS on
August 4th and 5th, 2014
for general educators
and special educators

• In order to have a
smoother transition,
special education hosted
a PPCD Bridge to
Kindergarten meeting
for all campuses
involved:

• February 21, 2014

• This meeting was to
prepare campuses for
student transitions from
Elementary to Junior
High, and Junior High to
High School on the
following date:

• December 9, 2013

• Katy ISD revamped the
Adaptive Behavior
model in the district
including the following:

• Re-writing guidelines for
the program

• Re-designing the
classrooms

• Re-training staff on
processes and procedures

• Special Education
Newsletters (Fall 2013 and Spring

2014)

• Special Education website
update

• Special Education E-
Newsletter

• Parent Advocate Meetings

• District Parent Advisory
Meetings

• Special Education Systemic
Planning with Dr. Molly Cordeau

• Honey badgers– Revamping
Adaptive Behavior

• Data Geeks—Developing a
principal special education data
notebook

• Busy Bees—Formulating a district-
wide co-teach model

• The Pirates—Looking at the special
education management system

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• The new Katy ISD
behavior intervention
model that includes 1
Lead Behavior
Interventionist and 5
Behavior Interventionists
commenced in the 2013-
14 school year on 10
campuses

• Special education is
creating Collaborative
Teaching training
modules for pilot
elementary and
secondary campuses.
These will be
disseminated in 2013-
14. Additional schools
will be added for 2014-
15.

• Special education is be
working with 5
elementary campuses to
provide collaborative
teaching supports that
are integrated with the
balanced literacy model

• A cadre of 6 model special
education teachers were sent to the
Region 4 Access to the General
Education conference in Summer
2013

• Develop Katy ISD teacher leaders to
create and deliver high quality
presentations, webinars, etc.

• Will Weldon Video example shared
with all Katy ISD principals

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Katy ISD Special
Education Department

• Katy ISD will be
embarking on a new
special education
management system that
will be implemented
district-wide in 2014-15

Project TYKE

• Inception in September 1, 1988 to present

• Served over 10,000 children and provides early
intervention services for infants and toddlers
with either a medical diagnosis, a
developmental delay or who are developing
atypically

• Services are provided in the child’s natural
environment including the home, daycare, etc.

• The TYKE program serves 315 toddlers on the
average a month

32% 37%
Move to KISD
Dismissed from Part B Special
the Program
(No further Education
Services) Services

Project TYKE

31%
Move to another district
in Texas/Out of State or
Withdraw from Program

Life Skills

• This program is to addresses
skills in the areas of
functional academics,
communication, self-help,
behavior and vocational
skills.

• 31 elementary classrooms

• 15 junior high classrooms

• 19 high school classrooms

ASIP Program

• The ASIP program is for high
functioning students with an
Autism Spectrum Disorder. ASIP
allows students to be supported
through specialized staff in the
general education classroom

• 3 elementary schools

• 1 junior high school

• 1 high school

Autism Programs
• Autism programs began in 2001

with one classroom serving five
students.
• In 2013-14, there are 33 district
specialized autism programs
serving over 225 students with
significant features of autism.
• District wide, there are 1188
students with autism served in a
continuum of programs beginning
in general education through to
the specialized programs.

Autism Programs

• YCAP has 14 programs on 10
elementary campuses

• ECAP has 12 programs on 10
elementary campuses

• JCAP has 5 programs on 4 junior
high campuses

• HCAP has 1 program on 1 high
school campus

PASS

 The goal of the PASS program is to
successfully educate students with
behavioral challenges in the
general education setting through
supports from specially trained
staff

 The PASS program is being
implemented on every junior high
and high school campus.

Adaptive Behavior

• Students who have emotional
challenges are served in these
programs focused on systematic
academic/social/emotional
interventions with the goal being to
return them to their home campuses

• Franz Elementary

• Diane Winborn Elementary

• Fielder Elementary in 2013-14 moving to
Hayes Elementary in 2014-15

PPCD/Early Childhood

• There are 24 campus-based
Preschool Programs for Children
with Disabilities classrooms in
Katy ISD

• The program is designed for children
3-5 years old who qualify for special
education services through IDEA.

Therapeutic Intervention Programs

• TIP serves medically fragile students
who are able to attend school.

• Elementary students are served in the
TIP classroom at Nottingham Country
Elementary

• Secondary students are served in the
TIP classroom at Cinco Ranch High
School

• Each unit has a teacher, two
paraprofessionals and a nurse dedicated to
the program

West 10- RDSPD Deaf Education Co-Op

• Purpose of the Co-Op is to serve rural
school districts without the resources
of a larger school district

• Serves Katy, Bellville, Sealy, Brazos
and Royal ISD (Katy is the fiscal
agent)

• 85 students in the program district-wide

• 5 itinerant teachers, four cluster teachers at
MPE

Katy ISD Deaf Education Programs

• The district has 120 students with an
Auditory Impairment who are Katy
ISD students

• Two Audiologists serve the district-
one for the Co-Op program and one
for Katy ISD students

• 340 students have been tested by our
audiologists

Visually Impaired Services

• The district serves 110 students with
visual impairments and these
children are receive programming
on 52 of the 57 campuses in Katy
ISD

• In 2013-14, the district is piloting a
Sensory Communications Integration
Program (SCIP) at Cinco Ranch High
School for deaf blind students

Visually Impaired Services

• The team consists of the following
staff members:

• Braillist
• Six teachers of the visually impaired
• Two orientation and mobility specialists
• Three paraprofessionals

Homebound Services

• These services are provided to
students who cannot attend school
for a variety of medical reasons.
Teachers go to their homes to
provide services:

• In the 2013-14 school year we have
served 81 students on homebound
services and currently have 52 active
students in the program

Diagnostic Services

• Katy ISD has 66 diagnostic
specialists

• These individuals complete all the
academic and cognitive testing
when a student is referred for
special education as well as
providing oversight of the ARD
process

Speech Language Services

• Katy ISD has 85 speech and
language pathologists to provide
services to students

• Speech pathologists provide a
wide variety of services to improve
speech and language skills for
students in the district

Katy ISD District Assessment Team

 The team completes all initial
assessments for students entering Katy
ISD and includes the following staff:

 LSSP, SLP and teacher

 In 2012-13 the team had 602 requests for
assessments

 23 families declined testing

 573 students were tested for special education
eligibility

 As of March 1, 2013 there have been 451
assessments and ARDs that have been
completed

Adaptive Physical Education

 APE teachers support campuses in
implementing strategies that
include adapting equipment,
modifications made for
curriculum, or a physical activity
in order for a student with a
disability to meaningfully
participate in physical education

 Serves 150 students with 8 teachers
and 1 paraprofessional staff member

Assistive Technology

 There are 7 individuals
serving on the AT team

 Over 400 students served
who use of technology
augmentation

Occupational Therapy

• These individuals work with students
to address gross and fine motor skills,
self-help skills and functional life skills

• In 2013-14 these serves were provided to
393 students in Katy ISD.

• The district has 8 full time occupational
therapists and 2 full time occupational
therapy assistants

Physical Therapy

• These individuals work with students
to address issues such as mobility,
positioning, access to restrooms, as
well as monitoring use of adaptive
equipment

• In 2013-14 these services were provided
to 100 students in Katy ISD

• The district has 2 full time and one part
time physical therapists

Work-Based Learning

• Provides opportunities for
students to develop a variety of
employability skills on
campuses and in community
settings that will lead to a
greater probability of being
employed after graduation

Work-Based Learning

• Students engage in non-paid
career exploration, career
assessment and work-related
training experiences in their
area of interest

• 140 high school students rotate to
off-campus community training
sites

Work-Based Learning staff

• 17 job coaches who are
certified bus drivers and who
oversee students on training
sites

• 7 high school campus WBL
program teachers who
coordinate community training
site locations

• Brian Malechuk, Ed.D.

• Executive Director of Special Education
• 281.396.2625
• [email protected]

• Christopher Rigdon

• Director of Special Education Programs
• 281.396.2074
• [email protected]

• Kathy Williams

• Director of Special Education Compliance
• 281.396.2074
• [email protected]

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