EXED LAWS
The law that regulates EXED, Public Law 94-142 was reauthorized and renamed this
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA?
This principle of IDEA specifies that schools must proactively seek out students with disabilties who needs services and cannot exclude a student because of their disability
What is the Child Find/Zero Reject?
The practice of integrating students with disabilities in the general education classroom.
What is inclusion?
LD
What is Learning Disability?
Civil rights law guarantees equal access for individuals with disabilities to employment, public accommodations, transportation, government services, and telecommunication.
What is ADA or Americans with Disabilities Act?
This principle of idea means there are ways for families to appeal if they disagree with the school about EXED services.
What is due process?
EXED services that include changes to what students learn, implying removal or alteration of the standard curriculum
What are modifications?
The law that protects the confidentiality of students' academic records
What is FERPA of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
An appropriate education must be provided at no cost to students with disabilities
What is FAPE or free and appropriate education?
EXED services that help students gain full access to class content and instruction
What are accommodations?
ED/EBD
Emotional Disturbance/Emotional & Behavioral Disorders
The Section of the Vocational Rehabilitatin Act of 1973 that requires schools to provide accommodations for students with disabilities.
What is Section 504?
A student who has a disability should be educated with non-disabled peers as much as possible.
What is least restrictive environment or LRE?
SDI
What is specially designed instruction?
This Act requires requires the implementation of UDL in schools.
What is ESSA or Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015?
This principle of IDEA provides additional services like OT, PT, speech therapy, or counseling if the student needs it to benefit from specially designed instruction
What are related services?
This the first step in the EXED process where general education teachers look for students who may be struggling, implement interventions to assist, and collect data to see if the intervention is effective.
Prereferral
AT
What is assistive technology?
OI
Orthopedic impairment