Special Education

• segregation of students by race is unconstitutional
• Education is a right that must be available to all on equal terms

• equal education opportunity is part of the law of due process
• Denying this opportunity is a violation of the constitution
• placement of children in educational tracks based on performance on standarized tests is unconstitutional

children tested for potential placement in a special education program must be assessed in their native language

pennsylvania schools must provide FAPE to all school aged children with mental retardation

Exclusion of individuals wiht disabilities from FAPE is violation of the due process and the 14th amendment

people with disabilities canot be discriminated from any program if that program recieves federal assistance

• focused on individualization of instruction
• child find
• FAPE
• parental rights
• LRE
• IEP
• meaningful goals

• extended all rights from 6-21 to preschoolers ages 3-5
• grant program for infants and toddlers up to 2 years old
• center-based and home-based programs
• IFSP
• can be developmentally delayed

• extend 504 to all programs and services offered to public
• goes from birth to death

• amended and renamed PL 94-142
• person 1st language
• added two new categories= autism, TBI

• clarified what IEP must include
• transition services starting at age 14
• private and charter schools must provide services
• regular diploma terminated services
• ADD included under OHI

• was teacher using research-based methods
• highly qualified teacher

• autism
• deaf-blind
• deafness
• hearing impairment
• mental retardation
• multiple disabilities
• orthopedic impairment
• OHI emotional disturbance
• specific learning disability
• speech and language impaired
• TBI
• visual impairment

means a condition developmental delay which impairs a child's functioning and which has a high predictability of impairing normal developmental performance

• cognition
• communication
• motor skills
• social or emotional
• self-help

• social history
• individual achievement
• adaptive behavior
• individual intelligence
• communicative abilities
• additional components

• identification of primary disability
• a resulting educational deficit
• corresponding need for SPED

• inclusive classroom
• resource room
• self-contained
• special school

• signatures
• goals
• dates
• modifications
• therapy times
• objectives
• LRE

• shortened homework
• shortened test
• only do odd numbers or even numbers on homework

• medical records
• general family information

• WISC 4
• Psychological evaluator

WRAT- reading, math, written language

• Burks behavior Rating Scale
• This years and last years teacher

• CELF-S
• psychological evaluator

• Key Math
• Psychological Evaluator

a developmental disability, which significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3

concomitant hearing and visual impairments, which cause a severe communication, developmental, and educational problems

hearing impairment which adversely afects a child's educational performance

concomitant impairments (such as mentally retarded/blind, mentally retarded/speech impaired, etc...). This catefory does not include deaf-blind

significantly sub average general intellectual fuctioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects educational performance.

severe orthopedic impairment which adeversely affects educational performance. This category includes such impairments as cerebral palsy, amputations, congenital defects

limited strength and vitality or alertness due to cronic health problems such as sickle cell animia, asthma, and congenital heart defects

a disorder in the basic pyschological processes involved in the understanding of language. Includes such labels as dyslexia, aphasia, dysgraphia, etc

children affected by a variety of communication disorders such as stuttering, articulation defects, etc..., which adversely affect educational performance

injury to the brain caused by external force or internal causes such as a stroke

impairment of vision, even the correction, which adversely affects a child's educaitonal performance. This category includes both blind and partially blind children