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The Pops Spedster site is home to an instructional system designed to meet the academic and community-based instructional needs of students with intellectual/cognitive impairments.

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DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTION (DAI), is a system of instruction that involves probing a student's present level of educational performance.

The results of the probe can be used to design individualized education plans that meet IDEA requirements.

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Some ELL students and home-schooled students could also benefit from the materials being offered on this site.

Disclaimer
The Special Education resources contained on this site are based on my 13 years of experience teaching medically fragile students in adaptive life skills public school classrooms. Pops Spedster And Company makes no representations about the accuracy of information from third party sources contained on this site, nor do we accept any responsibility for the use of this information. While we aspire to present best practices in serving a medically fragile student population, scientific developments and research have created a fertile environment of approaches to instruction that have resulted in a changing pedagogical discipline that works to improve the lives of people with developmental disabilities. - James M. Kemp/ AKA Pops Spedster.

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Click on the following site menu items to visit each subdomain's home page.

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This chart contains links to https://www.specialeducationguide.com

where you will find pages discussing specific IDEA categories.

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Click on this menu to view specific topics from our YouTube channel and from other sources.
Behavior Issues	Case Studies	Collaboration
D A I	Functional Literacy	IEP Planning
Jonny Cue Comix	Pops Spedster's Home	Special Education Resources
STEM Issues	The Lemon Aid Network

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Home of Jonny Cue Comics. -

Watch a Youtube video of an animated version of a Jonny Cue Comic.

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Pops Sedster is also home to "Spout's First Note".

Watch an early, animated version of the book.

This video has gone through many different versions. It is based on a children's book written in 1999, for a graduate level class in Special Education, at Western Oregon University and taught by Dr. Mickey Pardew.

Many of the versions of this video are published on our YouTube channel

with the user name Pops Spedster And Company.

Like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Here is a link to a stop motion animated version's introduction video on You Tube - https://youtu.be/ugB8RB5kt8k

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Since 2008, Pops Spedster And Company has published content for the developmental disabilities community.

THIS SITE CONTAINS MANY WORKSHEETS THAT CAN BE PRINTED OUT BY AND FOR STUDENTS.

ALL WORKSHEETS ON THIS SITE ARE FREE, BUT PLEASE DO NOT CLAIM A COPYRIGHT ON THESE FREE MATERIALS.