SPED Law

Question 1

IDEA

Answer 1

• A law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children
• FAPE, Procedural safeguards
• Covers children from birth to age 21, includes 13 disabilities
• The child must have a disability that significantly affects their education

Question 2

ADA

Answer 2

• A civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public
• To be protected by the ADA, one must have a disability, which is defined by the ADA as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment

Question 3

Section 504

Answer 3

• A federal law designed to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education
• It protects the rights of persons with handicaps in programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance, protects the rights not only of individuals with visible disabilities but also those with disabilities that may not be apparent