Special Education Teacher Support Services (SETSS)
Specially designed and/or supplemental instruction provided by a special education teacher can help your child stay in the general education classroom. This happens in two ways.
Direct Instruction
The special education teacher may work directly with your child (or your child and up to 8 other children together) and provide direct specially designed and/or supplemental instruction to your child. The special education teacher may adapt the subject matter (“modified curriculum”) and/ or use visual aids, highlighted work sheets, simpliļ¬ed directions, and other kinds of “modified instruction.”
Indirect Instruction
The special education teacher may also work with your child’s general education teacher to adjust the learning environment and/or modify and adapt instructional techniques and methods to meet your child’s individual needs. SETSS may be provided for as few as 3 hours per week and as much as 50% of each day. Your child’s IEP must indicate:
- The number of periods a week that the services will be provided
- Where they will be provided, and
- Whether those services will be provided directly or indirectly, as described above.