Exceptional Children
The term used to include students with learning behavior, physical, and sensory impairments.
Exceptional Children
Under which law does a child need to be identified as having a disability to receive services?
Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
This court case strongly influenced the history of special education law
Brown vs. Board of Education (Topeka, KS 1954)
In 1975 congress passed Public Law 94-142 the Education for All Handicapped Children Act which has been reauthorized five times. What is the Act called now?
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
Accountability for Student Learning, Scientifically Based Instruction, Inclusion of Students with disabilities in standardized testing all remains under what policy?
No Child Left Behind
Children who although not currently identified as having a disability are considered to have a greater than usual chance of developing one.
Students that are at-risk
Providing access to services not available to people without them, protective responses from peers, funding and research are all...
Possible benefits to labeling and classification of students with disabilities
What was Association for Retarded Children (PARC) vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1972)
Case that made it possible for children with intellectual disabilities to receive free appropriate public school education, as well as states that placements in general education classrooms and regular public schools were preferable to segregated settings.
What do Special Education Services for Preschoolers, Early Intervention, Assistive Technology, Scientifically Based Instruction, Universal Design for Learning have in common?
They are all other provisions of IDEA
Which of the 13 categories of Special Education identifies the most students?
Specific Learning Disability
35% school year 2013-14 with Speech and Language and Other Health Impairment 2nd and 3rd
People thinking only in terms of a disability, impairment, or performance deficits instead of what the individual can do are all...
Possible disadvantages to labeling and classification of students with disabilities
Name of Federal support programs for gifted and talented students
Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act
Explain Nondiscrimatory Evaluation, Protection in Evaluation Procedures
Schools must use multi factored, non-biased methods of evaluation to determine a student's need for specially designed instruction. All tests must be administered in the child's native language. Identification and placements decisions cannot be made on a single test score.
What was the argument that the parents of student with severe disabilities used that resulted in the establishment of Extended School Year?
The parents of five students claimed that their children tended to regress during the usual breaks in the school year and it took the students longer then the number of days of the break to re-learn the information as determined by the IEP team.
A) The loss reduced function of a particular body part or organ
B) When a person cannot or has limitations in their ability to perform a certain task
A) Impairment
B) Disability
An alternative to labeling students
Using their name or what you are trying to teach
Where is it stated "No otherwise handicapped individual shall... soley by reason of his handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance"
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Explain the difference between FAPE and LRE
FAPE - Free Appropriate Public Education
All children regardless of the severity or type of disability shall receive their public education free of cost to the child's parents. Including through an IEP any and all related services.
LRE - Least Restrictive Environment
Insures that children with disabilities are educated with children without disabilities to the maximum extent possible (with appropriate aides and services).
Explain Manifestation Determination
If a school seeks change of placement, suspension, or expulsion of a special education student that exceeds 10 days, then the IEP team and other qualified personnel must review the relationship between the student's misconduct and their disability. If the team determines that the student's behavior is not related to the disability the same procedures used for any other student may be imposed. The school must continue to provide educational services in an alternative placement.
A problem or disadvantage a person with a disability has or encounters when interacting with the environment
Handicap
What is Rosa's Law?
A law that changed all references to mental retardation in federal statues to intellectual disabilities
Name the law that extends civil right protection to people in private sector employment, public services, and accommodation transportation and telecommunications
The Americans with Disability Act 1990 amended in 2008
Explain Procedural Safeguards provisions
Parents must provide written consent for all evaluations and placement decisions regarding special education. All records are confidential and must be made available to parents. When parents of a student with disabilities disagree with an evaluation performed by the school, they can obtain and independent evaluation at the public expense. When the schools and parents disagree on identification, evaluation, placement, or a provisions of FAPE and related services for the child, the parents may request a Due Process Hearing.
What is individually planned, specialized intensive goal - directed instruction, that used research based teaching methods and is guided by direct and frequent measures of student performance.
Special Education