Baragiola 6 IDEA Principles Presentation

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Perspectives on Implementations

APPROPRIATE EVALUATION

LRE

FAPE

PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARD

IEP

PARENT & STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING

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Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

• Provide special education and services to those that need them.
• EX: Speech therapy, counseling, reading and math intervention.

• Personalize IEP to meet a student's needs.
• Educate in the least restrictive environment.

• EX: General education vs. special education classroom.

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Parent & Student Participation in Decision Making

• Guardians have the right to participate in meetings for the evaluation, identification, and education placement of their child.

• Also have the right to develop, review, and revise IEP.
• Parents decide when it is appropriate for a child to attend but student must be invited to any IEP meeting that discuses transition services.

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Procedural Safeguards

• Design to protect the rights of parents and children with disabilitiy and give family and school systems several tools to resolve disputes.
• Procedural safeguards rights:
• Due process - started with a written complaint and resolved with a hearing resembling a courtroom trials.
• Confidentiality and "Stay Put" rights.
• Prior written notice and understandable language.

• Access to educational records.

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Least Restricitve Environment (LRE)

• Children with disabilities are to be educated with children who are not disabled.
• Students must have meaningful access to same-age peers without disabilities.
• Placement outside general education must be justified and what's best for the student.
• Supplementary aids and services can also support.

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Individualized Education Program (IEP)

• Written statement designed to meet child's unique individual needs.

• Purposes:
• Establish measurable annual goals for child.
• Identify special education, related services, and supplementary aides and services provided by the school.

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Appropriate Evaluation

• Comprehensive evaluation that is a process and not just one test.
• Must be conducted in native language. or other means of communcation.
• Must not discriminate.
• Local education agency must have written permission before evaluating child.

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Perspectives on Implementation

• While a FAPE in a LRE is mandated, disparities in specialized staff, assistive technology, and inclusive programs, exists in resource allocations in underfunded districts
• Concerns exist about biases in the special education evaluation process from factors such as language barriers, cultural insensitive assessment tools, and misidentification of disabilities.
• Challenges persist in ensuring meaningful parent participation because of barriers such as lack of awareness, legal language, power imbalances hindering effective collaboration, and inconsistencies in implementation.

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Sources

Asociación Prensa Jerez. (2007, July 4). Concurso para diseñar un nuevo logotipo para la FAPE [Image]. Friendship Circle. (2011, May 3). “9 steps to write an effective IEP for your child” [Image]. Friendship Circle. http://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2011/05/03/9-steps-to-write-an-effective-iep-for-your-child National Council on Disability. (2018). Broken promises: The underfunding of IDEA. https://www.ncd.gov/assets/uploads/docs/ncd-brokenpromises-508.pdf National Education Association. (2024, April 16). Disproportionality in special education fueled by implicit bias. https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/disproportionality-special-education-fueled-implicit-bias Oklahoma State Department of Education – Special Education Services, & Oklahoma Parents Center, Inc. (2013, July). The Super Guidebook: Six Principles of IDEA. https://oklahomaparentscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Super-6-6-Principles-of-IDEA.pdf Parent Center Hub. (n.d.). Q&A about Part B of IDEA: Parent participation. https://www.parentcenterhub.org/qa2/ Pizer Law. (2023, November 12). Individual education plan, business concept, IEP–504 program, copy space, text on natural wooden blocks [Image]. PizerLaw. https://pizer.law/parents-often-wonder-why-both-iep-and-504-plans-exist-what-the-differences-are-and-which-one-is-better/ Texas Project First. (n.d.). Evaluation process overview [Image]. Texas Project First. https://texasprojectfirst.org/en/evaluation-3/ WeAreTeachers. (2023, April 5). LRE explained feature [Image]. In What Is “Least Restrictive Environment” and How Does It Impact Students? WeAreTeachers. https://www.weareteachers.com/least-restrictive-environment/