Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQ) Sheet

Abstract

This paper includes a FAQ sheet about the special education process from referral to IEP development, as well as discusses a narrative overview regarding special education, governing laws and the impact of law on schools.

Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQ) Sheet

Introduction

Due to the federal regulations and laws that govern the children education with disability refers to a process that has evolve with the passage of time, which administers the process of special education from referral to IEP development. The special education process involves following steps: referral, identification, eligibility development of the IEP and implementation of the IEP. The aim of this paper is to offer a narrative overview to the “Special Education Process” to gain a comparative understanding on global practices to offer children with disabilities an appropriate and free education.

FAQ Sheet

What does FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education) means?

What does LRE (Least Restrictive Environment) means?

What is a “home school” of students in relation to the IEP?

What are IEP meetings and its types?

How soon documents of IEP must be complete to be submitted with the Central Records Office?

When should an observation at the classroom of a referred child be filled in the IEP?

How must the question engaged in determining eligibility, “can the student get sound educational advantage from general education alone?” be dealt with?

For the IEP purposes, who is eligible as the parent?

What is considered “timely and proper” parents' notification of IEP meetings?

At what time, “surrogate parent” to be assigned to represent the child's interest in the process of IEP?

Narrative Overview

Special Education

Federal laws govern special education in almost all educational jurisdictions. In accordance with the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) defines special education as “especially devised instruction to fulfill the unique children's needs who are suffering from disability while having no cost on parents.

Special education is primed to offer additional support, services, programs, specialized environments or placements to make sure that educational needs of children are given for. Special education is given to students' who meet the criteria while costing nothing to the parents. There are several children who have special needs of learning, as well as such needs are dealt with special education. A variety of special education offer support will differ as per the educational jurisdictions and needs of disabled children. Each educational jurisdiction, state or country will have different legislation, regulations, rules and policies that govern what is a special education (National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, 2007).

Governing Laws

In the United States, IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is the governing law of special children education: usually the disabilities types will be manifestly determined in the law of jurisdiction that surrounds special education. For special education, children qualifying have special learning needs that require support and surpass what is normally received or offered in the regular classroom or school setting.

ADA (American with Disabilities Act) provides protections of civil rights to people with disability, alike to those offered to people on the basis of religion, age, national origin, sex, color and ...