Individuals with Disabilities

Education Act (IDEA)

Purpose

FAPE

to ensure that all children with disabilities have

available to them a free, appropriate education that
emphasizes special education and related services
designed to meet their unique needs and prepare
them for further education, employment and
independent living
Child is entitled to an education that is designed to
meet the childs unique needs and from which the
child receives educational benefit

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)/

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of
1973
To protect individuals with disabilities from discrimination for
reasons related to their disabilities.
Does not ensure that the child with a disability will receive an
individualized educational program designed to meet the childs
unique needs and provide the child with educational benefit, with
the goal of preparing the child for further education, employment
and independent living
the provision of regular or special education and related aids and
services that ... are designed to meet individuals educational
needs of persons with disabilities as adequately as the needs of
persons without disabilities are met...
The child has access to the same free appropriate public
education that is available to children who are not disabled.
Must have a physical or mental impairment that substantially
limits at least one major life activity. (Examples: walking, seeing,
hearing, speaking, breathing, reading, writing, performing math
calculations, working, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks,
and other activities.)

Child Find
(Eligibility)

If the child has an impairment that substantially limits one or

more major life activities, but does not need special education
services.

Least
Restrictive
Environment
(Placement)
Program
Planning

Children with disabilities are to be educated with

children who are not disabled to the maximum
extend appropriate.
IEP
-

Present level of function

Goals
Progress monitoring

School performs an evaluation that draws information from a

variety of sources.
General education classroom

504 plan
Lists the specific accommodations, modifications and
auxiliary supports or services that will be provided and who
will provide them
Identifies the person(s) responsible for ensuring the plan is
implemented
Is distributed to all of the childs teachers and support staff
serving the child
Is reviewed periodically (i.e. at least annually)

Related
Services
Procedural
Safeguards

Discipline

An elaborate system of procedural safeguards

designed to protect the child and parents. These
safeguards include written notice before any
change of placement and the right to an
independent educational evaluation at public
expense.
The school must continue to provide the child with a
FAPE, even if the child is suspended or expelled
from school.

Whatever the student needs to benefit from the schools program,

behavioral, assistive technology, mobility, counseling,
doesnt include a clearly established Prior Written Notice
requirement
does not have legal protections available to students with IEP
Misbehaves and the school decides the childs behavior is not a
manifestation of the disability, the school can expel the child, just
as they can expel a nondisabled child.