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Panel questions for MSDE State APE Briefing

1. Can a child qualify for APE service just based on PE classroom observations and assessments?

2. Can a child qualify for APE services based solely on medical needs?

3. Does the APE itinerant need parent permission to administer criterion referenced test (Brigance Inventory of Early Development) ?

4. At first re-eval mtg, can APE teacher share report for assessment results from criterion referenced test without having parent permission to test?

5. An elementary student transfers to another school and he/she has previously been included in regular PE. The student has an IEP, but their are no goals for PE. The student is placed in a self-contained classroom and comes to Adapted PE with his classmates. My question is...... shouldn't this student continue participating in regular PE even though he is in a self-contain setting? And, since he is placed in Adapted PE - how long should he continue - even though his skill level is equal to his age-appropriate peers.

6. If a student has 30 mins a week on their IEP but the rest of the students in his/her class have PE 30 mins a day 3 days a week are we in violation because the APE student is not receiving the same amount as his/her classmates?

7. Also students that receive their APE during the regular physical education class taught by the APE Specialist are having difficulty scheduling all the students because of time limitations. We have parents who do not want their child pulled out of another subject or time they want their child to receive APE when the child's class goes to PE (sometimes that may be 3 times per week).

8. High Schools offer APE course 1,2,3,4, quarters. If any non-disabled student can elect PE - 2 courses per semester, or all year, are LSS obligated to offer separate APE the same amount?

9. IEP wording for a high school student who has PE (therefore APE) for one semester but the IEP goes from March - March. That student is only in PE from August-January or January - June. What�s the best way to word the IEP?

10. Is it legal for your special ed. supervisor to tell you to stop qualifying students for APE consult services?

11. Is each county in Maryland required to have at least one APE teacher?

12. Can Corollary athletes play on a corollary team and receive service hours? Do Corollary teams need to be varsity teams?

13. Can a special education teacher (certified SPED, Not PE) teach separate APE class.