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What is Brown vs Board of Education?
When?
- 1954
- stopped segregation in public schools based on race
- violated 14th amendment (stopped separate but equal)
- catalyst for sped changes in future
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What is the ESEA?
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- PL 89-10
- federal funding for poverty schools
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What is Title VI?
- PL 89-750 in 1966
- federal funding to expand sped programs
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What did the Education of the Handicapped Act do?
- gave funding to colleges to train sped teachers
- 1970 part of the ESEA
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What is PARC and how did it help MR folks?
- Pennsylvannia Association of Retarded Citizens
- required the state to provide FAPE to all MR kids age 6-21 years
- violated 14th amendment
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Why is Mills vs Board of Education important to Sped?
- procedural safeguards came from this.
- cannot exclude kids based on race or disability
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What do procedural safeguards provide?
- non-discreminatory:
- testing
- evaluations
- placement
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What is Section 504?
- PL 93-112
- Section of 504 Rehabilitation Act
- programs receiving federal funding cannot discriminate against qualified people with disabilities.
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What education amendments were added in 1974?
- same info from PARC and Mills Case....they became PL 93-380
- MR kids 6 - 21 get FAPE
- can't segregate based on Race
- can't exlude sped kids from public education
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What is the EAHCA or PL 94-142?
- Education for All Handicapped Children Act
- federal rights with federal funding incentives
- FAPE to age 21
- LRE
- due process
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What is the Handicapped Children's Protection Act or 99-372
- amendment to EAHCA
- grants parents attorney fees if they win their case
- can be retroactive
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What is significant about the Education of the Handicapped Amendment PL 99-457?
- added early intervention for birth to 2 years
- required IFSPs
- Extended EAHCA to 3-5 year olds!
- financial incentives
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What is IDEA 1990?
- It is PL 101-476
- 1990 Renamed EAHCA to IDEA
- added autism and TBI
- added transition to IEPs for 16 and older
- added states aren't immune from lawsuits under 11th amendment for IDEA violations
changed to "people's first" language
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What is the IDEA 1997 Amendments (PL 105-17)?
states must offer mediation to parents PRIOR to due process hearingsadded new IEP contents
- reorganized structure of IDEA
- change the IEP team
- added new displinary provisions
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What is new with IDEA 2004?
- FAPE/IEP must be specially designed instruction to meet unique needs
- FAPE/IEP must further their education, employment and independent living
- FAPE/IEP must show YEARLY PROGRESS
- removed short term objectives from IEPs, except for students with severe disabilities.
- defined highly qualified sped. teachers
- encourages the use of RTI for SLD students
- states can't use a formula to determine eligibility of SLD students
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What is the ADA of 1990?
- American with Disabilities Act (PL 110-325)
- can't discriminate based on disability
- jobs
- houses
- public factilities
- public transportation
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What is FERPA?
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- confidentiality and access to educational records
- all records can be seen by the family or become public records for law suits
aka Buckley Amendment
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What is an IFSP?
Individual Family Service Plan
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What is Manifestation Determination?
- sped kid on IEP breaks a school rule that...
- proposes to remove the child from school (suspension)
- there must be a hearing to make sure it was not the fault of the disability and it is the fault of the child knowing better and making poor decisions.
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What is the LEA?
- Local education agency
- or local school district
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What is inclusion?
educating sped kids in general education
mainstreaming and LRE apply here.
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What is a modification?
changes to expectations of a sped student
- instructional level
- content
- performance
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What is an accommodation?
- changes in how tests administered
- (but don't alter what is measured- equal opportunity to show understanding/knowledge)
- language of instruction
- response language
- test setting
- timing changes: extended, more breaks etc...
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What is a CBM?
curriculum based measurement
- measures student progress in academic areas
- tested weekly 1-5 minutes
- scores are graphed
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C.F.R. What does it mean?
Code of Federal Regulations
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What is a "fair hearing"?
- due process hearing
- impartial due process hearing
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What is EI?
- Early Intervention
- served under 5 years
- sped services
- related services
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What is an IEE?
Independent Educational Evaluation
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What is OSERS?
Office of Special Education & Rehab. Services
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What is OSEP?
Office of Special Education Programs
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What is an SEA?
State Educational Agency
our OSPI
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What is USC?
United States Code
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What is SWD?
Students with Disabilities
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What is an ITP?
Individualize Transition Plan
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When must ITP be in place?
age 15 - before the student's 16th birthday
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ITP must reflect...
student's interests and skills
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Who must be invited to the IEP with ITP?
the student
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What 2 goals must be addressed for ITP?
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Who decides what the transition plan looks like?
IEP team
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What must be done in an ITP before the child turns 18?
- invite an outside agency
- prior to the meeting....must have parent permission for the outside agency to attend
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name at least 4 agencies that can be involved with ITP
- HS career center
- community college or trade school
- community education classes/instructor
- DVR
- DDD
- SS
- MH
- independent living care centers
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What are the buzz words for the ITP process?
"results oriented process"
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Defined by Law, what disorders qualify as DD?
- MR
- CP
- Epilepsy
- PDDs
- other neurological disorders closely related to MR, or require similar treatment as MR.
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