Kimberly Cole

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Overview of Today’s Special Education

 Envisioning Great Expectations  Enhancing Positive Contributions  Building on Strengths  Becoming Self-Determined  Expanding Relationships  Ensuring Full Citizenship

 Approximately 6 million students ages 6 – 21  321,894 infants and toddlers or 2.7% of U.S. infants and toddlers  709,004 preschool children or 5.7% of the preschool-aged population

 Approximately 2/3 boys and 1/3 girls in special education  Approximately 1.8% to 18 % of students in the gifted and talented category in different states- Overall, 6.4 % of the school population  Females slightly outnumber males in gifted and talented category

– Supervisors/administrators – Psychologists – Diagnostic/evaluation staff – Audiologists – Speech therapists – Additional specialists – School social workers – Occupational therapists – Physical therapists – Recreation and therapeutic specialists – Paraprofessionals

 Mills v. Washington, DC, Board of Education and Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens [PARC] v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  The courts ordered school districts to: ◦ Provide a free, appropriate public education to all students with disabilities ◦ Educate students with disabilities in the same schools and basically same programs as students without disabilities ◦ Put into place procedural safeguards so that students can challenge schools that do not live up to the court’s orders.

 IDEA(originally called Education of All Handicapped Students Act or PL ) was first enacted in 1975

 Beginning of what we now know as IDEA  IEPs  Least Restrict Environment  FAPE: Free and Appropriate Public Education  Funding for special education

 IDEA has three sections: ◦ Part A sets out Congress’s intent and national policy to provide a free appropriate public education to all students with disabilities ◦ Part B serves children ages 3 to 21 ◦ Part C serves students ages birth to 2

 Psychological services  Recreation and therapeutic recreation  Rehabilitative counseling services  School health services  Service coordination services  Social work services in schools  Speech pathology and speech- language pathology  Transportation and related costs  Vision Services  Assistive Technology  Audiology  Counseling services  Early identification  Family training, counseling, and home visits  Health services  Medical services  Occupational therapy  Orientation and mobility services  Parent counseling and training  Physical therapy

 Other health impairments  Orthopedic impairments  Traumatic brain injury  Speech or language impairments  Hearing impairments  Visual impairments  Specific learning disabilities  Emotional disturbance  Mental retardation  Multiple disabilities  Deaf-blindness  Autism

 Zero reject  Nondiscriminatory evaluation  Appropriate education  Least restrictive environment  Procedural due process  Parental and student participation

 Ensures all children and youth (3 - 21), no matter how severe their disabilities, will have an appropriate education provided at public expense  Discipline

 Does the student have a disability?  What kind of special education and related services does the student require?  Assessment Requirements ◦ Screening ◦ Prereferral ◦ Response to intervention ◦ Referral ◦ Nondiscriminatory evaluation

 Individualized education for each student with a disability  Developed collaboratively by the same people involved in the evaluation  Outcome oriented (include goals/objectives)  Provide the foundation for the student’s appropriate education

IFSPs  Document for children ages 0–2  Describes the services both the child and family will receive  Should be developed within 45 days of referral and reviewed at 6-month intervals and every year thereafter IEPs  Document for students 3–21  Need to be in effect at the beginning of the school year  Reviewed and revised at least once a year

 Parents  General educator  Special educator  School system representative  Evaluation interpreter  Others  Student

 Education with students who do not have disabilities  For early childhood, IDEA favors the “natural environment”  The rule: A presumption of inclusion  Access to the general education curriculum  The continuum of services  Extracurricular and nonacademic inclusion

Makes schools and parents accountable to each other  Resolution session  Mediation ◦ Not required by IDEA but strongly encouraged  Due process hearing ◦ Similar to a regular courtroom trial ◦ Conducted before an impartial hearing officer ◦ Parents and schools are entitled to have lawyers present

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No Child Left Behind- 6 Principles Rehabilitation Act ◦ Allows people to seek vocational rehabilitation services so they may work (OVR) ◦ Provides services such as supported employment programs and job coaches Tech Act Allows states to create statewide systems for delivering assistive technology devices and support to people with disabilities

 Section 504 ◦ Applies to any program or activity receiving federal funds  Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ◦ Applies to other programs or activities available to the public that do NOT receive federal funds

Rehabilitation Act and ADA - Physical or mental impairment- limits 1 or major life activities - Has a record of an impairment “Person with a disability”

 Equality of opportunity  Full participation  Independent living  Economic self-sufficiency Measured by:  High school completion rates  Post school employment rates  Overall satisfaction with life

 You tube  m4QQjmrCzs&feature=related m4QQjmrCzs&feature=related  Timeline of Special Education

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