IDEA
IDEIA became a law. In IDEIA changes to the law were...
Science based instruction and funding
High Qualified teachers
Attoneys fees
Eligibility
Discopline
IEP
Early Intervning services
Changes in IDEIA
Changes in law
Big changes: Rights of students with disaplities protected under IDEA
EAHCA changes
Individuals with disabilites education improvement act
Individuals with diabilites education Act
Infants and Toddlers with disabilites act
Handicapped childrens protextion act
Small changes: Altered some statutes language, modifying parts of the infants and toddlers program
Major Principles
Title II of IDEA: When congress added title II in 2004, it established the National Center on Special Education Research
The purpose is to sponsor research that...
Improve the preparation of Sped personnel
Improve academic achievement
Evaluates the implementation and effetivemass of the IDEA
Improves services under IDEA
expands knowledge base in SPED
4 parts of IDEA
PART D- National activites to improve education of children with disabilites
PART C- Infants and toddler with disabilites
PART B- Assitance for education of all children with disabilites
PART A- General provisions
LEA (local educational agency purpose); early intervention
Population targeted for this program and infancts and toddlers who experiencing developmental delays in these areas...
Adaptive development or have diagnosed physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in develppmental delay
Social or emotional development
Communication development
Physical development
Cognitive development
Enhance the capacity of families to meet special needs of infants and toddlers
Minimize the likelihood of intituionalization of individuals with disabilites
Reducing educational cost by minizing the need for SPED
Enhance development of infants and toddlers and minimize pontential delay
Purpose, goals, and structure of the law
Birth-21 states are required to identify and evaluate children
Ages 3-21 students are eligible for SPED resources
Only disabilites that have an adverse impact on their education are eligible to recieve a SPED (13 categoires of disabilites)
IDEA was enacted to assist states in meeting the educational needs of students with disabilites via. federal funding of state efforts
Eligibility for IEP is dettermined by multidisciplinary team is in accordance and guidelines by the law
Protect student and parent rights
Prepare them for futher education employment and independent living
Give students FAPE with servies
Historical Developments
4 bills were introduced in senate in 1975
S.6- A comprehensice bill for education of students with disabilities. Purpsose was to mandate that FAPE could be avaible to all students with disabilites
S.808- To provide federal funds for screening preschool children for the presence of learning disabilites
S.34- To fund research or the problems of children with autism
S.896-To extend the life of the education of the handicapped Act for 3yrs
EHA was sighed into law 1970 which provided...
Funded for techinical assistance
Funded instituions of higher education to develop teaching training programs for SPED
provided additional funding for pilot projects in the state
consolidated the earlier grant programs under one law
Very few teachers were being trained to work with students with siabilites and they had very small amounts of funds
ESEA in 1965 the fenderal gov. began to provide funding
