The Venn diagram describes the similarities and differences of two important laws that influenced special education. Before 1975, school system was not required to have any sort of standard curriculum (Osborne & Russo, 2014). The laws in education are used to protect the rights of students, they are the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (EHA) and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004. The diagram is separated into three sections, the two sections are the acts showing the differences and one section that shown how similar the acts are to one another.
Schools must follow certain rules to protect the rights of students with disabilities. The Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 realized that there was a group of children that were not being serviced properly, if at all. If states and districts followed the rules they would receive government funds, this is …show more content…
The blueprint lies the foundation of how IEP is to work by giving step by step guidelines for the services, accommodations , goals, shortcuts, the students’ progress, the states/ district assessments and support of the student with a disability. This was a foundation for how the student should learn, services and required less paper work. IDEA was developed to protect children with disabilities from the ages 3-21 have a specific disability, a need for special education, that services would benefit the student and ,. This act which was an expansion of EHA realized that it could not wait until the child was 5 but, those developmental ages of a child between 3 and 5 were important. Another requirement of IDEA is that students with a disability are placed in a least restricted environment, which is a classroom that the student can reach their full potential. The school cannot put a student in a classroom that is below their
Schools must follow certain rules to protect the rights of students with disabilities. The Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 realized that there was a group of children that were not being serviced properly, if at all. If states and districts followed the rules they would receive government funds, this is …show more content…
The blueprint lies the foundation of how IEP is to work by giving step by step guidelines for the services, accommodations , goals, shortcuts, the students’ progress, the states/ district assessments and support of the student with a disability. This was a foundation for how the student should learn, services and required less paper work. IDEA was developed to protect children with disabilities from the ages 3-21 have a specific disability, a need for special education, that services would benefit the student and ,. This act which was an expansion of EHA realized that it could not wait until the child was 5 but, those developmental ages of a child between 3 and 5 were important. Another requirement of IDEA is that students with a disability are placed in a least restricted environment, which is a classroom that the student can reach their full potential. The school cannot put a student in a classroom that is below their