Ch 1 Understanding Special Education Flashcards
13 Specific Categories of Disability for IDEA
Specific Learning Disability Speech or Language Impairment Intellectual Disability Emotional Disturbance Multiple Disabilities Hearing Impairment Orthopedic Impairment Other Health Impairment Visual Impairment Autism Deaf/Blindness Traumatic Brain Injury Developmental Delay
IDEA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004
Six Principals of IDEA
Zero Reject FAPE LRE Nondiscriminatory Evaluation Parent and Family Rights to Confidentiality Procedural Safeguards
Zero Reject
All students with disabilities are entitled to a public education regardless of nature or severity of their disabilities.
Child Find System
A set of procedures to ensure that students with disabilities are identified.
FAPE
Free and appropriate public education
What does FAPE mean?
Parents and family members cannot be asked to pay for special education services.
LRE
Least restrictive environment
What does LRE mean?
Students must be educated in the setting most like that of their typical peers in which they can succeed with the needed supports and services.
What is the assumed LRE for most students with disabilities
General education setting
Nondiscriminatory Evaluation
Any assessment completed as part of a special education decision-making process is unbiased.
5 Pieces of Nondiscriminatory Evaluation
Given in native language
Appropriate for age and characteristics
More than one test to find disability
Knowledgable professional administers and interprets results
All areas of suspected disability assessed
Parent and Family Right to Confidentiality
Information regarding student’s disability may be shared only with people working directly with the students. A log must be kept of anyone who accessed the records. Parents have a right to see and get copies of records and dispute information that they perceive is not accurate.
Procedural Safeguards
Provisions requiring any educational decisions concerning a student with disabilities be made with parental input and in compliance with the law
504
A section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that ensures handicapped persons cannot be excluded from, denied benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity that benefits from Federal financial assistance.
