The Specials

Historical issues/laws that effect special education In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the United States Supreme Court found that “separate but equal is inherently unequal in the context of public education.” (Brown, 1954). Although the case dealt with racial segregation, it served as the legal foundation for the rights of children with disabilities. In 1975, congress enacted the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA), which was later renamed the Individuals with…

Is special education racist? This is a question that, on the surface, may seem simple, however, it is a topic that professionals in the field of education have grappled with for quite some time. There is an array of supporters on both sides of the question, and both sides of the issue have evidence that they swear proves their stance on the issue right. The problem therein lies with the fact that it is no possible for both sides to be right, no matter how much evidence they are able to provide.…

completing my Special Education 351 course and my practicum hours, included that students with exceptionalities were incorporated in the classroom limitedly. I expected to there by more boys with special needs in the class than girls. More so, I assumed that there was not a great deal of students with exceptionalities in the lower grades present in the general education classroom. The past experience I have with working with students with exceptionalities includes working in a special education…

Children with Special Education How many of you really know what it’s like to handle a child with special needs? Most of you aren’t able to answer it’s difficult it requires strength, patients, a high tolerance level heir are many people who have worked with children with special needs have been bitten , hit and things thrown at them. It takes a lot of patience and respect for someone to handle those situations. Because children with special need’s tend to be very strong and teachers have to be…

The education system has given students with disabilities a platform. Currently, special education students are not defined by their disability, but instead by their success or overcoming challenges. As a special education teacher, my philosophy in education is to challenge students to grow as individuals. Allowing them to see what they are capable of doing…

Very few people really understand the educational needs of students in special education. Some may have had a cousin in special education, or they may have volunteered at Special Olympics, or they remember the student with Down Syndrome. Few people really understood their elementary class when they were in school. With those experiences they think they understand special education and all that is involved. As we know, special education is an umbrella term for many different forms of educational…

President Gerald Ford signed The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) into law in 1975. The law became known as the “Bill of Rights” for children with disabilities and their families, and it helped to establish the advancements and strides in Special Education policy as well as advocacy. EHA was created to make sure that children with disabilities were able to have access to public education that was free and appropriate to their conditions. It became local and statewide support and…

paper will examine the meaning of special education classes, the IDEA act in addition to how it affects and benefits the students, along with the meaning of inclusion coupled with its effects on teachers. Correspondingly, this reflective paper will also include personal opinions on the aforementioned topics along with personal experiences. Overall, this reflective paper will examine how each of these topics fit in and support each other for the betterment of the special education programs and…

Special Education Reform There have been many changes in special education through the years, and as with most things, some were positive and some were negative. Turning back the clock a century we find that public education was just starting to make its debut. Schools, although they had been around for a while, were usually only found in the larger towns and were primarily attended by the wealthy and elite students. Special education students were excluded from attending school, because they…

History of Special Education and Recent Effective Practices Between the 1965 and 1975, state legislatures, the US Congress and the federal courts pushed for strong educational rights for children with disabilities. Out of the fifty states, forty-five state legislatures passed laws which mandated, encouraged and funded special education programs. Federal courts than followed by ruling that schools would no longer be able to discriminate on the basis of a student’s disability and that parents…