Who's Law Is It Anyway?
Exceptional Learners
Classroom Implications
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The comprehensive legislation signed into law in 1975 that guaranteed all children ages 3-21 with disabilities a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment.

Public Law 94-142.

100

Students with very high intelligence or such unusual gifts and talents in the arts that they require special educational programming to reach their full potential are

gifted and talented.

100

According to Maslow's theory, this is reaching one's full potential.

self-actualization.

200

_________ are the published opinions of judges, which interpret statutes, regulations, and constitutional provisions.

Case Law

200

A written program required for all children with disabilities under IDEA.

individualized education program (IEP)

200

This is a popular approach for teaching all students addressing different interests, have different learning preferences, and are at different levels of learning?

Differentiation

300

The case in which the U.S. Supreme Court mandated that the District of Columbia schools provide a publicly supported education to all children with disabilities and that education cannot be denied based on the accommodations' additional cost to the school.

Mills v. Board of Education.

300

The percentage of U.S. students that receive special education services.

14.5%

300

Assigning a student a reading text that is significantly lower in reading level than the grade-level expectation is an example of this.

Modification