Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Every year thousands of students in New Jersey are classified within the Special Education Program in their school districts. In 2013, Point Pleasant Borough classified 451 students for Special Education and Related Services (NJ Department of Education, 2014). According to the New Jersey Department of Education, in 2013, there were 12,031 preschool age children classified for Special Education and Related Services (2014). Lastly, in the State of New Jersey, in the year 2013, 220,253 students…

Disabilities affect hundreds of millions of people and families all over our world. According to, the 2010 United States of America Census around 56.7 million people live with a type of disability, which has increased by 2.2 million since 2005. The types of functional and activity limitations can be classified into three domains, communicative, mental or physical disability. “Disability is often called a social construct”, meaning that the disability is best understood in terms of how society…

Students who are deaf or hard of hearing are provided educational services in various settings according to their individual needs as stipulated in their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) that is decided by the Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committee. These educational place options are: separate schools, resource rooms and separate classes, general education classes, and co-enrollment classes. Separate Schools Separate schools are special schools exclusive for the deaf…

suffer from a Learning disability that disables the child from learning how too properly write/read/or speaks. For children with the disability, their peers sometimes be little them making it hard for the child to learn. Improper evaluation has led to the advancement of the disorders in our children. The research I conducted was to see the effects of improper evaluation on children. My research proyed that improper evaluation at schools causes advancement in the disability. A 15 percent of…

this process. We must understand what these categories of special needs are. They are quite in number and this includes emotional disturbances, autism, deafness, intellectual disabilities, blindness and learning disabilities. The definition of these categories is according to the IDEA which is the Individuals with Disabilities Act, (2012).…

allows the student to receive a free and appropriate public education. However, this was not always the case. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act added more than a few revolutionary procedures and regulations that saw parents of children with disabilities granted an unprecedented amount of rights, mainly due to an impressive amount of litigation (IDEA, 1997). Take the case of Zachary Deal v. The Hamilton County Department of Education. In this case, the parents of Zachary Deal, Mr.…

meaningfully involved in the special education process. Stated another way, how are procedural safeguards implemented in day-to-day administrative practice to ensure that parents are involved in their children’s education. Give specific examples that relate to the content in the chapter and instructor notes. Safeguards ensuring that parents would be involved in planning their child’s special education go back to the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Yell, 2012,…

Special Education Final Case Study Sink or Swim? DISCUSSION TOPICS 1. ADHD a. Identify the typical symptoms associated with ADHD. Which do you notice in Randall’s behavior? • Hyperactivity • Inattention • Impulsiveness • I notice hyperactivity in Randall’s behavior. He is talking excessively and becoming animated in his actions. Hyperactivity can also be seen with Randall fidgeting. Randall’s behavior also expresses impulsiveness. Randall wants to complete the work before anyone else can get…

Learning Disabilities According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004), a learning disability can be defined as “a disorder in one of more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding on in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.” The disorders included under learning disabled are perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal…

Teaching can be stressful and demanding in itself, but teaching students that have been diagnosed with physical and health impairments can even be more stressful and demanding on the teachers. Special education teachers not only have to teach grade level curriculum, but teach it in a way all students understand and comprehend the information being taught. This can be quite challenging at times. Techers should consider the each student and their needs when setting up the classroom. By…