Research Updates 1 & 2

For my research I was instructed to find out the differences between Mild to Moderate and Moderate to Severe licensure in special education. So far this had proven difficult because of the lack of information Im finding. The actual terminology is different from state to state and program to program. So far from my research, I have concluded that most educators are multicategorical. This means that the special educator has been trained and licensed to work with mild, moderate, and severe students. According to U. S. Department of Education, over ninety percent of the special education degrees granted each year are multicategorical (U. S. Department of Education, 2003). While researching, I found a chart published by the Center for Disability Services listing the specific disabilities and how the symptoms change through mild, moderate, and severe.

Here is the link for the chart:

http://www.ocfs.state.ny.us/ohrd/swec/materials/developmentaldisabilities/Handout-Continuum%20of%20Disabilities%201.pdf