When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Special education - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_education

   e. Special education (also known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, disabilities, and special needs. This involves the individually planned and systematically ...

3. Special education in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_education_in_the...

   The Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS) was a study of school-age students funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the U.S. Department of Education and was part of the national assessment of the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 97).

4. Individualized Education Program - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualized_Education...

   An Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a legal document under United States law that is developed for each public school child in the U.S. who needs special education. [1] IEPs must be reviewed every year to keep track of the child's educational progress. [2] Similar legal documents exist in other countries.

5. Least restrictive environment - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_restrictive_environment

   Because the law does not clearly state to what degree the least restrictive environment is, courts have had to interpret the LRE principle. In a landmark case interpreting IDEA's predecessor statute (EHA), Daniel R.R. v. State Board of Education (1989), it was determined that students with disabilities have a right to be included in both academic and extracurricular programs of general education.

6. Inclusion (education) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion_(education)

   Inclusion in education refers to including all students to equal access to equal opportunities of education and learning, [1] and is distinct from educational equality or educational equity. It arose in the context of special education with an individualized education program or 504 plan, and is built on the notion that it is more effective for ...

7. Free Appropriate Public Education - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Appropriate_Public...

   FAPE is a civil right rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which includes the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses.. FAPE is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (7 CFR 15b.22) [6] as "the provision of regular or special education and related aids and services that (i) are designed to meet individual needs of handicapped persons as adequately as the ...

8. Office of Special Education Programs - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special...

   The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is a unit within the U.S Department of Education. Originally created as the Bureau of the Education of the Handicapped in 1967, [2] its purpose is to strengthen and coordinate activities on behalf of students with disabilities. OSEP activities are authorized through the Individuals with ...

9. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuals_with...

   v. t. e. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. IDEA was previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) from 1975 to 1990.