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-This law defines two major ideas: Handicapped person and Appropriate Education.
-This law also prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities in all federally funded programs.
-By defining handicapped person, this law had implications for all people who are handicapped, not just students. -
Gives students and families the right to due process in special education placement. This means that parents can legally challenge the placement or nonplacment of their child in special education.
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- One of the first major laws to big impact on students with exceptionalities.
- Also known as the “Mainstreaming Law”
- Requires Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for children with disabilities between the ages of 5-18
- Requires Individualized Education Plans (IEP)
- One of the first major laws to big impact on students with exceptionalities.
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- Establishes “People First Language”
- Adds autism and traumatic brain injury as disability categories
- Required transition planning for post educational life of students with disabilities
- Expands services available to special education students
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- Update to the 1990 law
-Extends the use of the developmental delay category for students up to 9 years old.
-Allows special ed staff to help with all students in classroom -Requires general ed teacher to be part of IEP team -Includes disabled students in state or districtwide tests
- Update to the 1990 law
-Extends the use of the developmental delay category for students up to 9 years old.
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- Starts to hold teachers responsible for the performance of students.
- Expands on IDEA's requirments for including all students with disabilities on state and federal testing.
- Spells out the accommodations for administering tests to students with disabilities,
- Starts to hold teachers responsible for the performance of students.
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Not since its predecessor IDEA, has a law shaped the way we treat our students with disabilities. IDEIA ensures that absolutely no child with disabilities can be excluded from a free, appropriate public education or FAPE.
