Special Education
What is Special Education?
Special education provides students with identified disabilities specialized instruction designed to meet their unique learning needs, giving them the opportunity to develop to their fullest potential.
Types of disabilities ;;
To qualify, children must fall under one of the 13 disabilities identified by IDEA :-
- Autism
- Deafness
- Emotional disturbance
- Visual impairment, including blindness
- Speech or language impairment
- Orthopedic impairments
- Hearing impairment
- Intellectual disability
- Multiple disabilities
- Traumatic brain injury
- Other health impairment, including ADHD
- Specific learning disability, including (among others) dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia
- Education
- Vocational
- Daily living skills
- sports
What is IDEA :-
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. The IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to more than 7.5 million (as of school year 2018-19) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.
The Principles of IDEA
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. The IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to more than 7.5 million (as of school year 2018-19) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.
The Principles of IDEA
- States are responsible for providing special education to their citizens. To do so, they are expected to follow a set of principles:
- Schools must educate all children with disabilities, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability.
- Schools must use a set of nonbiased methods of evaluation for determining if a child has a disability. Testing and evaluation must not discriminate based on race, culture, or native language.
- All children with disabilities must receive a free, appropriate public education. An IEP must be developed and implemented to meet the needs of children with disabilities.
- Children with disabilities must be educated with children without disabilities as much as possible. Students can only be moved to separate classrooms or schools if they cannot receive an appropriate education in a general education classroom.
- Schools must have safeguards in place to protect the rights of children with disabilities and their parents.
- Schools must collaborate with parents and students when designing and implementing special education services.
The Individualized Education Program 
A child’s specific needs dictate what is taught in special education. Some children with disabilities require intensive, systematic instruction to achieve success in daily living, school, community, and work settings, while other children must be taught skills to compensate for the existence of a disability. Others just need special accommodations and learn right alongside their general education peers in regular classrooms. The Individualized Education Program (IEP) is the cornerstone of special education. Each student with a diagnosis that qualifies them for special accommodations has an individually tailored IEP. IEPs require (1) an evaluation by the child’s school; (2) the determination of eligibility; and (3) the development of the IEP by the school’s IEP team.
A child’s specific needs dictate what is taught in special education. Some children with disabilities require intensive, systematic instruction to achieve success in daily living, school, community, and work settings, while other children must be taught skills to compensate for the existence of a disability. Others just need special accommodations and learn right alongside their general education peers in regular classrooms. The Individualized Education Program (IEP) is the cornerstone of special education. Each student with a diagnosis that qualifies them for special accommodations has an individually tailored IEP. IEPs require (1) an evaluation by the child’s school; (2) the determination of eligibility; and (3) the development of the IEP by the school’s IEP team.
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