Disability and Special
Education Legislation
Education Legislation
A piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided the same opportunity for education as those students who do not have a disability. The majority of the rules and regulations defining the act fall within six major principles.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
IEP
What is Individualized Education Plan?
Children whose performance deviates from the norm, either below or above, to the extent that special education is needed.
Who are Exceptional Children?
All children with disabilities, regardless of the type or severity of their disability shall receive an education at public expense, without cost to the child's family.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
This team must include (1) parent of the child with a disability; (2) at least one general education teacher; (3) at least one special education teacher; (4) a representative of the local education agency; (5) an individual who can interpret the instructional implications of evaluation results; (6) optional- any individual(s) who have knowledge or special expertise regarding the child, (7) whenever appropriate, the child.
What is an IEP Planning Team?
This Act extends civil rights protection of people with disabilities to private sector employment, public services, transportation, and telecommunications.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
RTI
What is Response To Intervention?
An adjustment to how a student with a disability is taught or tested. May include changes to physical environment, instructional materials, teaching method, or testing to help students with disabilities learn.
No child with a disability may be excluded from a free public education, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability.
What is Zero Reject?
Developmental, corrective, and other supportive services required for a child with disabilities to benefit from special education.
What are Related Services?
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
IFSP
What is Individualized Family Service Plan?
Educating students with disabilities in the general education classroom.
What is Inclusion?
IDEA requires that students with disabilities be removed to separate settings only when the nature or severity of their disabilities is such that they cannot benefit from instruction in a regular classroom with supplementary aids ans services.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
At least once every 3 years, the IEP team conducts a ___________________ to determine if the child still needs special education.
What is a Reevaluation Meeting?
A US law passed in December 2015 that governs the United States K–12 public education policy. The law replaced its predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and modified but did not eliminate provisions relating to the standardized tests given to students.
What is the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
IHCP
What is Individualized Health Care Plan?
When a particular group receives special education at a rate significantly higher or lower than would be expected based on the proportion of the general student population that group represents.
What is Disproportionate Representation?
Schools must collaborate with parents and students with disabilities in the planning and implementation of special education and related services. The input and wishes of the parents/student must be considered in determining IEP goals, related service needs, and placement decisions.
What is Parent Participation and Shared Decision Making?
This major principal of IDEA ensures that schools follow an extensive set of procedures to protect the rights and interests of children with disabilities and their parents.
What is Procedural Safeguards?
Provides federal funds in support of research, teacher training, and program development for the education of gifted and talented students.
What is Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act?
MFE
What is Multi-Factored Evaluation?
A policy, curriculum, or instructional technique with a sufficient number of high-quality research studies providing scientific evidence to support its effectiveness.
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
Schools must use a non-biased, multi-factored methods of evaluation to determine where a child has a disability and, if so, whether the child needs specially designed instruction to benefit education.
What is a Nondiscriminatory Evaluation?
Beginning when the students reaches age ____ years old, IEPs must also include information on how the educational program will support the child's transition from school to adult life.
What is 16?