IDEA
Individuals with disabilities Education Act
What does IDEA stand for?
Free Appropriate Public Education is a required component of IDEA mandates school districts provide access to general education and specialized educational services. (general education settings as much as possible.)
What is FAPE?
Stands for Individualized education program
What is IEP?
1967- First case raising questions about placement in special education. Court ruled tha using test scores to group students into "tracks" was unconstitutional.
What is Hobson v. Hansen ?
Two or more educators or other certified staff who share instructional responsibility
What is CO-Teaching?
Is the newest name for federal law designed to ensure that schools serve the needs of students with disabilities
What is IDEA?
Decides if child is exceptional; if exceptional, recommends placement in Special Education Program; reviews child's progress annually and recommends child remains in current program, new placement or demitted from program
What is IPRC
Management tool to identify and organize needed services
Document that describes the special education and related services appropriate to the needs of students with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21 years old
What is an IEP?
1974 - Established that using intelligence tests as the sole basis for diagnosing mental retardation for placement in special education classes is inappropriate.
What is Larry P. v. Riles?
Teachers both teach the same information but divide the class and teach simultaneously.
What is Parallel Teaching?
Stands for a free and appropriate education and is guaranteed for students with disabilities under IDEA.
What is FAPE?
Under IDEA 2004, transition services shall begin no later than age
What is 16?
Current performance
Goals
Special education and related services
Participation with students without disabilities
Participation in state- and district-wide testing
Dates and places
Transition service needs
Age of majority
Measuring progress
What are components of IEP?
In 1972 Established that children with disabilities other than mental retardation have the right to an appropriate education, regardless of the degree of mental, physical, or emotional disability.
What is Mills v. D.C. Board of Education?
Each teacher will teach content to one group, and then the same information to the next group. There may be a third station where students are working independently.
What is Station Teaching?
1) FAPE 2) Appropriate evaluation 3) IEP 4) Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) 5) Parent & student participation in decision making 6) Procedural safeguards
What is the 6 principals of IDEA?
indicates limited mental capacity, limitation of adaptive behavior skills and an onset of these factors occurring in childhood.
What is category of mental retardation?
Student's present levels of academic achievement and information about how the student's disability influences participation and progress in the general education curriculum
Is it Current Performance?
Established that students with mental retardation have the right to an appropriate education.
Required state and local districts to place all children with mental retardation in a "free public program of education and training appropriate to the child's capacity."
Established that the State must engage in extensive efforts to locate and evaluate all students with mental retardation.
What is Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1972)
One teacher works with a small group who needs re-teaching while the other teacher provides enrichment of alternative activities for the rest of the class.
What is Alternative Teaching?
The presumption that children with disabilities are most appropriately educated with their non-disabled peers and that special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular education environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily
What is LRE?
is a law that protects the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities Federally funded from the U.S. Department of Education. Updated in 2008 includes ADHD, AD.
What is Section 504?
Specific educational services to be provided, including accommodations, program modifications, or supports that allow participation in the general education curriculum and extracurricular activities
What is special education and special services?
In 1954 established the right to an equal educational opportunity based upon the Fourteenth Amendment, which provided that people could not be denied "equal protection of the laws" or deprived of "life, liberty, or property" without due process.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Students are observed during the learning process. Teachers should decide in advance what type of information will be gathered and how. The information will be analyzed together afterwards.
What is one teach and one observe?