Houston ISD special education instructors who teach students with autism will return to their classes next week without the support of teachers there to assist them during routine check-ins or reported emergencies. This comes after the district cut 10 'itinerant teacher' positions, effectively ending an autism services team that primarily...
Cuts to Houston ISD's special education staff effectively ended the operations of an autism services team.Houston ISD special education instructors who teach students with autism will return to their classes next week without the support of teachers there to assist them during routine check-ins or reported emergencies.
The teacher said the autism services team attended a virtual meeting late last week. During this, they were told the district was dissolving their positions but not terminating them. These instructors didn't just monitor classrooms; they worked to help teach both types of classes for students with autism: the “standard” classes with students who had autism that could grasp the general education curriculum and the “alternative” classes with autistic kids who used the “unique learning system” curriculum.
“My first year, my experience in my district with the administrator was she wouldn’t go more than two steps in my classroom when my students were there,” she said. “She couldn’t handle their behavior; she didn’t know what to do, so this did not help.”
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