Exam 1 Flashcards
What is Child Find
A public outreach awareness system to locate and identify children thought to be eligible for special education
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Civil rights legislation
- Section 504
- Major life activities
- Reasonable accommodations
- PA Regulations
Cedar Rapids v. Garret F 1999
Needed nursing assistance
Non physician health services need to be provided
History of Special Education
Standardized tests
New professional fields
Medical advances
Technological advances
IDEA Principles
Child find IEP Nondiscriminatory evaluation Shared decision making LRE FAPE Related services Assistive technology Supplementary aids and services Confidentiality Procedural Safegaurds
FERPA
Family Education Rights & Privacy Act
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Originally ESEA Accountability Highly qualified teachers Assessments AYP
Framework for Teaching by Charlotte Danielson
A comprehensive and coherent framework that identifies those aspects of a teacher’s responsibilities
“Validated”
Multiple Measure of Teacher Effectiveness - observation and evidence
Planning and preparation
Classroom environment
Instruction
Professional responsibilities
*4 domains
Initial Level Knowledge and Skill Sets
Individualized Common Core (ICC)
Individualized General Education Curricula (IGEC)
Learning Disabilities (LD)
Initial Level Content Standards
- Fountains
- Development and Characteristics of Learners
- Instructional Strategies
- Individual Learning Difference
- Learning Environments and Social Interactions
- Language
- Instructional Planning
- Assessment
- Professional and Ethnical Practice
- Collaboration
Indicators suggesting the presence of a disability
Rate of progress not what is expected
Level of performance discrepant from peers
Physical/health conditions affecting educational performance
Behavior adversely affects educational performance
Response to classroom accommodations not successful
Homelessness
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Continue in school in which last enrolled Enroll immediately Provide transportation Provide educational services *involve community agency
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
Remove barriers and provide access
Prerefferal Intervention Questions
What are the needs?
Can the needs be helped?
Does the student need special education?
Pre-referral Invention
Avoid premature referral special education
Building-based teams
RTI
Type of Teams
Multidisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
Transdisciplinary
Collaborative - most interaction
Protections in Evaluations
No single procedure Variety of assessment tools Test instruments Not racially/culturally diverse Students native language
Oral vs Written Request - ERF/RRF
Consent if they agree
Written if no
Procedural safeguard notice not enclosed
Revaluation consent form
PTE Consent Form
60 calendar days from when request to when parents receive form
PTR Consent Form
60 calendar days from when public agency receive the form from parent to when parents receive report
PTE EPF
10 calendar days from when parents mention evaluation to when the school district sends form CF follows ERF/RRF by how many days
*reasonable amount of time * a week
Parent choices upon receipt of PTE CF
Yes
No
Meeting
Embedded procedural safeguard
Member of team, 60 days
Informed consent
Notice of rights to parents
Independent education evaluations
Must be taken into consideration when planning educational programs
Parent or district expense
*District-provided criteria
Appropriateness of district evaluation
Consent
Written parental consent REQUIRED for initial evaluations
*go to hearing if parents refuse consent
How many times can revaluations
Not more than 1 per year
Every 3 years, ID every 2 years
*without consent
Evaluation Bias
Race
Poverty
Limited English Proficiency
Key of IDEA
IEP
IEP Documents Contents
Starting/Ending dates Present levels Annual goals SDI SAS Related services Supports
IEP Meeting
Within 30 days of parent receipt of evaluation report at least annually
D.S. And A.S. v. Bayonne Board of Education
Grades in regular education were not equilavant to grades in special education
Florence County School District Four v. Carter 1993
Parents of child with SLD. Objected to an IEP that established goals in reading and math for 4 months progress for the whole year
Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA)
Civil rights legislation Employment Transportation Business Communication
Section 504
PA Regulations
Can’t discriminate against disability under federal financial assistance
Advanced Content Standards
- Leadership and Policy
- Program Development and Organization
- Research and Inquiry
- Individual and Program Evaluation
- Professional Development and Ethical Practice
- Collaboration
PVAAS Growth
3 to 8
Value added year to year
Board of Education of the Hendricks Hudson Central School District v. Rowley 1982
Personalizing instruction doesn’t have to the best instruction
IEP Team memeber
Parents Special educator General educator Rep of public agency Any other related services Child when of age
Child can be on the IEP at what age according to PA Regulations
14
Child can be on IEP Team at what age according to Federal Law
16
Consent must be…
Requested before beginning the reevaluation
Schaefer v. Weast 2005
If parent brings the charge, they speak first
Armstrong v Kline 1979
Extended school year programs begin
FAPE
Free Appropriate Public Education
-An educational right of children with disabilities I the United States that is guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and IDEA
School psychologist is included in evaluation when the child with the disability has…
Autism EBD ID Multiple Disabilities OHI SLD TBI
Order of how child is evaluated
- Student difficulty achieving
- RTI
- Referral
- Determine multidisciplinary team make-up
- Consent
- Complete evaluations
- Protections in evaluations
- Disability is present
- Need for SDI established
- Identification of disability category
- Evaluation report completed
- Evaluation report to parents
5-12 within 60 calendar days*
13 categories under IDEA
Autism Deaf-blindness Deafness Emotional Disturbance Hearing Impairment Intellectual Disability Multiple Disabilities Orthopedic Impairment OHI SLD Speech & language impairment TBI Visual Impairment/Blindness
Timothy W. V. Rochester School District 1989
The parent of a severely disabled child appealed court ruling that held the school was not obligated to provide special education to a child who was severely disabled that he was not capable of benefiting from special education
Honig v. Doe 1988
Supreme Court stated that when the actions of the student or hazardous to the student and to the others, could attempt to obtain court orders that would allow schools to remove students from education placement on a temporary basis.
Screening
To determine appropriate instructional strategies for curriculum implementation shall not be considered to be in an evaluation for eligibility for special education and related services.
