SERVICES
Act of 2004 (Pl 108-446) identifies thirteen disability categories.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA)?
International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships.
What is Best Buddies?
an inability or incapacity to perform a particular task or activity in a specific way because of sensory, physical, cognitive, or other forms of impairment.
WHAT IS A DISABILITY?
“Where a State has undertaken to provide an opportunity for an education in its public schools, such an opportunity is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.”
WHAT IS Brown v. Board of Education
This is a plan or program developed to ensure that a child with an identified disability who is attending an elementary or secondary educational institution receives specialized instruction and related services.
what is an Individualized Education Plan?
Project was created by Kristen Malfara and her family.
What is the M.O.R.G.A.N Project?
significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently (at the same time) with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
what is Intellectual disability?
The most significant court case concerning the interpretation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
What is Rowley v. Board of Education
A blueprint for how the school will support a student with a disability and remove barriers to learning. The goal is to give the student equal access at school.
What is a 501 plan?
Established December 1, 2015: federally-funded project under the U.S. Department of Education -through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).
What is the National Center for College Student Disabilities?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) characterizes as a neurodevelopmental disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that students with disabilities are entitled to an education.
What is Mills V, board of education of the district of Columbia
a national center that provides effective evidence-based practices (EBP) and intervention for all children from birth through twenty-one, especially for those with disabilities.
WHAT IS THE IRIS CENTER
To bring happiness and companionship to children and young adults with special needs by celebrating their individuality.
What is Friendship Circle?
A term defined by individual states referring to children ages 3 to 9 who perform significantly below developmental norms.
What is Developmental Delay?
All Handicapped Children Act (later became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
What is Honig v. Doe
The result of an educational assessment that determines that a child has significant learning challenges
What is an IEP?
80 regional chapters around the world and counting.
What is Friendship Circle International.
Individuals who deviate from the norm to such an extent that special education services are required.
What is Exceptional Children?
Law assures that all children with disabilities have available to them a Free Public Education and “Related Services” to meet their unique needs
What is Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret.