Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that protects the education of certain disabled children from age 3 up to the age of 21. Under IDEA‚ intellectual disabilities is one of the thirteen categories in which students ages 3-21 must be given a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). So‚ what exactly is an ‘intellectual disability’? As defined by IDEA‚ an intellectual disability includes “significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning‚ existing
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Beyond Words: Reflections on Our Journey to Inclusion‚ Is a heartwarming at times heart wrenching story of a mother’s battle to find the proper education for her disabled son. Diane Linder‚ who penned this powerful book is herself an educator who found herself frustrated and constantly let down by the education system in New York and decides to take matters into her own hands rather than allow her son to simply fall through the cracks. The story takes us into Diane’s life where we see a woman who
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Children with learning disabilities are smart or smarter than their peers‚ but may have difficulty with things like reading‚ writing‚ reasoning‚ and organizing information by themselves. A learning disability is a lifelong issue that cannot be cured or fixed with a snap of the fingers. Children who have the right support and intervention can succeed in school. Then later they will be able to go and be successful later in life. Children with learning disabilities need the support of parents‚ school
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as children left behind‚ it doesn’t have to be the case. We have the resources to get and to keep every child on task toward receiving a general education. One such strategy gathered from the reading‚ was the Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP) developed primarily by an Individualized Education Program (IEP). It was interesting to note that while the program consists of concern educators‚ social workers and professionals parental input is a part of every decision involving child interventions. Another
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In 1975 The Education of All Handicapped Children Act caused public schools to provide occupational therapy to students with disabilities for free. The laws also insured that students who received this specialized type of therapy would receive it in a suitable manner
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A Special Education Plan for Anabela In the case of Anabela Vicenti‚ supporting her may mean holding her back. Anabela is a second grader at La Paz Elementary School‚ who a few months ago was placed into special services in the school and received an IEP (individualized education plan). Before La Paz‚ she attended Sandia Elementary School where she was classified as a non-reader at the end of kindergarten because she did not know all of her letters and sounds. She was recommended for educational
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One thing in my life that I had to dive into doing was being a single parent. I no longer had just myself to worry about and to take care of; I was going to have another person to be responsible for. I had a mixture of feelings when I found out I was pregnant. I did not know if his dad was going to be around or not to help me. I was worried‚ nervous‚ scared and excited all at the same time. I was not working at the time‚ so I had very little money and his father only paid child support when
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interfered with his reading‚ and fine motor deficits made writing difficult. In most ways‚ Ryan was at least equal to his peers: physically active‚ imaginative‚ and highly intelligent. Socially‚ however‚ Ryan was hampered by spending time in the special education classroom. Because he had been signaled out and because he could not do some of the things his classmates could do‚ he was ignored‚ even bullied‚ by some of them. When he finally got the right treatment‚ though‚ most of his problems vanished. His
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responsible in maximizing their own learning. (Van Brummelen‚ p. 38) This is particularly intriguing to me as a special education teacher. All of my students are very unique from one another and they all need different support to make sure they are successful inside and outside the classroom. Although the students that I work with daily have different goals in their IEP (Individualized Education Plan)‚ the end result is mostly the same in the sense that they all turn out to be the “best they can be” in all
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Living with Cerebral Palsy and The Effects on Childhood and Family Living with Cerebral Palsy: In the Childhood Years Brain Damage Cerebral palsy usually is caused by factors that interfere with normal development of the brain before birth. In some cases‚ genetic defects can be a contributor to the disruption of normal brain development; other cases are caused by injuries to the developing brain. According to Levete (2010)‚ “Approximately 70% of cerebral palsy
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