Special Education Law Quiz

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

A federal law guaranteeing a Free and Apropriate Public Education (FAPE) for all students with disabilities. It mandates an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) crafted for each eligible student.

Section 504

a civil rights law that prohibits the discrimination of people with disabilities in any federally funded program or activity (including public schools and colleges). 

Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

To the maximum extent possible, students with disabilities are taught alongside their nondisabled peers.

Americans with Disabilites Act (1990)

The ADAs purpose is to eliminate discrimination against disabilites in the work force and ensure equal oppertunities for economic-independece and idenpendent living.

3 Major Changes of the 2008 Amendments Act

1) Broadened the Definition of Disability

2) Evaluating impairments without consideration of mitigating measures like hearing aids or prosthetics. 

3) Shifting the focus from “disability” to “discrimination”. (not if someone has a disability, but if the person has been discriminated against.) 

FAPE

Free and Apropriate Public Education. Accomidations are provided for free to any child assigned an IEP or 504 plan to make their education as benififcal as possible.

IEP

Individualized Education Plan. A legal document for students with disabilities to ensure them a proper education. It describes an idividualized plan for each students that takes into account their experince and learning styles.

What is the process for obtaining an IEP?

1) Refferal to Special Education

2) Team conducts assessment

3) IEP develops the IEP

4) IEP team determines placement

How to develop an inclusive PLOP? (Present Level of Performance) 

Students skills, stregnths and individual needs must be discussed and documented. Consideration of how their disability interferes with their performace and progress in the general curriculum. Concerns of the parents on enhancing their childs education must be adressed. 

Federal definiton of Learning Disability

a dysfunction of the psychological processes of learning and understanding language

Two ways of becoming eligible for an IEP

1) Response to Intervention (RTI) model

2) IQ-achievement discrepency model

Response to Intervention (RTI) model

Oberserve students response to intervention in the classroom through many stages. If students don’t display adequate imporvement despite interventions and support, than this can be used for determination of an LD

IQ-achievement discrepincy model

testing of students IQ to determine if there is a significant gap between this students intellectual ability and their academic achievement.