Individual Program Plan Report: Needs, Benefits, and Implementation

This report provides a detailed analysis of Individual Program Plans (IPP), focusing on their definition, benefits, and implementation. The IPP is presented as a person-centered plan designed to address individual student needs, particularly those with learning disabilities, by identifying strengths, weaknesses, and preferred future goals. The report highlights the benefits of IPPs, such as written commitments from education teams, documentation of student progress, and instructional guidelines for teachers. The implementation section outlines key steps including need identification, setting direction, making a plan, plan implementation, reviewing and revising, and transition planning. References from various academic sources support the concepts discussed, emphasizing the importance of IPPs in improving student outcomes and facilitating social inclusion within higher education settings. This report is a valuable resource for students and educators seeking to understand and implement effective individualized programming.

Running head: INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM PLAN
Individual Program Plan
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Definition of Individual program plan.......................................................................................2
Benefits of Individual program plan..........................................................................................2
Implementation of Individual program plan..............................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Definition of Individual program plan
The individual program plan is specified as a master plan in terms of written or
individual plan particularly preferred for the individual needs involving an overall review of
any consumer’s needs as well as strengths, response and also weaknesses or other
components (Banta & Palomba, 2014). This plan is basically person centred plan which helps
to the persons to convert their physical disabilities into capabilities. The total effort of this
planning is not considered a solo event, it comprises a meeting with a team of persons
including that person who has the physical disability. This planning process assist the persons
to convert his physical disability into his capability involving strengths, weaknesses as well
as lifestyles etc. This converting process is known as preferred future. During the planning
process, the team decide the actions that are required for that individual towards his preferred
future. This overall documentation of this decisions are known as individual program plan.
Benefits of Individual program plan
This individual program plan is described as a plan which is needed specially for
students for particular needs includes the learning disabilities (Alexander & Vladislav, 2015).
There are lots of benefits that are included in this program planning and they are as follows:
 Written commitments of the motivation by the education teams for ensuring proper
planning for any students along with particular needs.
 It helps to make a documentation which helps to track the students’ progress.
 This program planning involves a team including parents, students, teachers for
assisting to improve the students’ performance.
 This program plan is also beneficial for teachers for providing the instructional
guidelines.
 This plan also involves to guide the transition planning.

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 This program planning is helpful for the students because it helps to evaluate the
students’ progress.
Implementation of Individual program plan
For improving and also evaluating any child’, the individual program planning
consists few steps as described below:
1. Identification of needs
2. Setting direction
3. Making a plan
4. Implementation of plan
5. Reviewing as well as revising
6. Transition planning
Identification of needs – Though it is basically relates the individual programming therefore
it requires to identify the needs of any child during the childcare. It requires to identify the
activities related liking or disliking of any child (Suldo et al., 2014). Identifying the exact
needs, it is easy for developing a plan for individual program plan.
Setting direction – This step implements for evaluating the direction in which any child may
face maximum amount of issues. This program plan identifies the vulnerabilities of any child
during their growth so that it helps to develop any direction for creating the social inclusion.
Making a plan – After identifying the needs or strengths or particular priorities, the tea of
this program plan decides a plan for developing the action plan which mitigates the problems
and improves their performance.
Implementation of plan – In this phase, the team develops a plan by which the progress of
any student or any child will be calculated.

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Reviewing as well as revising – This section is important for the individual program plan
process (Bryant, Bryant & Smith, 2019). This section executes for discussing the program
and also considers the revisions.
Transition planning – This planning comprises the identification of the skills that are
required for any child to improve their growth in childcare and also make a social interaction.
For an example, if any child has an interest mostly in the physical practices, therefore
in that case, it has to specify the care regarding his physical practices and make a consultation
with any therapist to continue this physical practices. It helps to grow the progress of any
child’s mind and improves the childcare for making social inclusion.

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References
Alexander, B., & Vladislav, B. (2015). Structure and content of the educational technology of
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362.
Banta, T. W., & Palomba, C. A. (2014). Assessment essentials: Planning, implementing, and
improving assessment in higher education. John Wiley & Sons.
Bryant, D. P., Bryant, B. R., & Smith, D. D. (2019). Teaching students with special needs in
inclusive classrooms. Sage Publications.
Suldo, S. M., Gormley, M. J., DuPaul, G. J., & Anderson-Butcher, D. (2014). The impact of
school mental health on student and school-level academic outcomes: Current status
of the research and future directions. School Mental Health, 6(2), 84-98.