Chapter 1: The Purpose & Promise of Special Education Flashcards
Who are exceptional children
Children who have learning, physical, behavior, sensory difficulties, and giftedness. All need accommodations
How many exceptional children are there
7.3 million children and youth with disabilities
9.5% of school age population
IDEA
Helps identify and label children with disabilities to qualify them for services and accommodations. 5 parts. zero reject, non discrimatory evaluation, LRE, FAPE, procedural safeguards, parent participation
Benefits of Labeling and Classification
The first step in responding correctly to differences
provides access to services
makes policymakers more aware
Possible Disadvantages of Labeling and Classification
Focuses on what children with disabilities can’t do instead of what they can do
Creates stigma
Hurts self-esteem
Makes people think all people with disabilities are the same
Alternatives to Labeling and Classification
Classify according to skills they need to learn
Labels in themselves are not the problem but how we perceive them
An Exclusionary Past
Before 70’s public schools were allowed to deny enrollment to children with disabilities.
Early 1900’s they were confined to state run institutions
Children allowed in school were segregated
All children now are entitled to FAPE w LRE
Brown v. Board of Education
created questioning among parents of why their children should be denied FAPE. 50’s-60’s
PARC v. PA
resulted in disabled children receiving FAPE and in regular settings/classrooms if appropriate
The Individuals w/Disabilities Education Act (1975)
Ensures FAPE, integration of early intervention, necessary tools to improve education, and effectiveness of efforts to educate children with disabilities.
Zero Reject, Nondiscriminatory Evaluation
Remedial Intervention
attempts to eliminate specific effects of a disability
Compensatory Intervention
Teaches substitute skill to enable someone to perform a task
Special Education
Individually planned, specialized, intensive, goal-directed instruction
Discipline (3)
-IDEA enables school districts to discipline students with disabilities in the same way as other students without a disability with a few exceptions.
-IEP team reviews the relationship between misconduct and disability.
-If misconduct is unrelated to disability the same discipline procedures given to other kids are given to the student with a disability.
Section 504
-No handicapped individual can be excluded solely because of their disability under programs that received federal funding.
