Assignment required for Nova CBD 501 Course

1. Denber Cruz
CBD 501

3. • Federal Law that governs how public agencies provide special
IDEA education to students with disabilities
• Deals with the educational needs of students up to age twenty
• Individualized Education Programs
IEP • Required that (IEPs) be created for each special education
students
• Free Appropriate Public Education
FAPE • An educational program designed to meet the distinct needs
of each special education student
LRE
• Least Restrictive Environment
• An educational setting most like that of the students typical
peers that meet the needs of the special education student

4. Section 504 • A national law that protects qualified individuals from
discrimination based on their disability.
Who Is Protected • Persons with a physical or mental impairment which
from Discrimination? substantially limits one or more major life activities
• AIDS, alcoholism, blindness or visual
Some examples of impairment, cancer, deafness or hearing
impairments impairment, diabetes, drug addiction, heart
disease, and mental illness

5. Deny qualified • the opportunity to participate in or benefit
from federally funded
individuals programs, services, or other benefits
• to programs, services, benefits or
Deny access opportunities to participate as a result of
physical barriers
Deny • including hiring, promotion, training, and
employment fringe benefits, for which they are
opportunities otherwise entitled or qualified

6. ADA gives civil
rights protections
that are like those
• race, sex, national origin, and religion
provided to
individuals on the
basis of
• employment, public
ADA guarantees
accommodations, transportation, State
equal opportunity
and local government services, and
for individuals in telecommunications

7. Discrimination must • Reasonable changes in policies, practices, and procedures
avoided
• must be removed if removal is readily achievable
Physical barriers in
• if those methods are readily achievable, alternative methods of
existing facilities providing the services must be offered
Equal opportunity to • Auxiliary aids and services must be provided to individuals with
participate or benefit vision, hearing impairments or other disability
Public accommodations • Restaurants, hotels, theaters, doctors' offices, pharmacies, retail
may not discriminate on stores, museums, libraries, parks, private schools, and day care
centers
the basis of disability

8. Public • Busses must be accessible to individuals with disabilities
• Bus stations must be accessible
Bus • Transit authorities must provide special transportation
Systems services to those who cannot use fixed route bus services
Public • Rail vehicles must be accessible to individuals with
Rail disabilities
• Rail stations must be accessible
Systems

9. State or local governments may not
discriminate against qualified individuals with
disabilities.
All government facilities, services, and
communications must be accessible consistent
with the requirements of section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973

10. • HIGH EXPECTATIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR
EVERY CHILD
NCLB • The law prohibits schools from excluding students
with disabilities from the accountability system
• provides funding for states to design and
implement annual tests for all children
NCLB • information from these tests is a valuable resource
for parents and educators

11. • The provision ensures that schools receive credit for the
NCLB progress of all children—including children with the most
significant cognitive disabilities
• Schools will not be identified by states’ education authorities as
NCLB “needing improvement” if their students with the most
significant cognitive disabilities are unable to achieve at the
same level as their peers
• This new provision protects children with disabilities from being
NCLB excluded from accountability systems that provide valuable
information to parents and educators

12. A very small number of students with disabilities are not
able to be assessed meaningfully against the same
standards as their classmates
Ensures that schools, districts and states are rewarded for
the progress that students with the most significant cognitive
disabilities make during the school
year
The provision does not limit how many students can
be assessed against alternate achievement standards
ALL PARENTS DESERVE TO KNOW THEIR CHILDREN ARE LEARNING

13. Federal law that protects the privacy of student
education records
Parents or eligible • have the right to inspect and review the student's
students education records
Parents or eligible • have the right to request that a school correct
records which they believe to be inaccurate or
students misleading
• to release any information from a student's
Schools must have education record
written permission

19.  Parents have a right to give
Informed consent
 Parents have a right to
revoke consent
 Parents have a right to be
informed in writing, in
language that is
understandable
 Right to independent
evaluations – at public
expense
 Access to Information and
Privacy under FERPA

20.  IEPs – Students have a right
to an individualized
educational plan
 FAPE – Students have a
right to a free and
appropriate public
education
 LRE- Students have a right
to an environment hat is
least restrictive
 To be treated with respect

21.  Keep lines of
communication open
 Provide honest answers
 Be a part of the IEP
team
 Inform the school of
any changes in student
behavior
 Give informed consent

22.  Give the written consent
for the referral evaluation
 Maintain records of any
changes in student
behavior or activities for
assessment
 Be a part of the IEP team
for planning
 Give informed consent
for the student
placement

23. FERPA
• For additional information or technical assistance, you may call
(202) 260-3887 (voice). Individuals who use TDD may call the
Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339
Section 504
• http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/complaintprocess.html
Americans with Disabilities Act
• Complaints about violations of title I (employment) by units of State and local
government or by private employers should be filed with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission. Call 800 - 669 - 4000 (voice) or 800 - 669 - 6820 (TTY) to
reach the field office in your area.
Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act
• http://idea.ed.gov