<Course ID Number> SE7004-8 | <Instructor> Dr. Peggy Cramer | | | <Course Title> Developing Curriculum for the Mentally Disabled | <Assignment Number or Title> II | | |
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Special Education Service Delivery and Federal Law
Sherry Maxey
Northcentral University
Special Education Service Delivery and Federal Law
The federal laws which are designed to create Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for all students have provided guidelines on establishing a “Least Restrictive Environment” (LRE), with a focus on students whom have special needs (What is idea?, 2014, para. 4-5). These laws such as Education for all Handicapped Children (EHCA) enacted in 1975, and the Individuals with Disability Act of 2004 (IDEA) furnished instructions, programs, and support to educators for assisting exceptional students with their behavioral and learning skills/challenges in the classroom (Blackwell & Rossetti, 2014, p. 1). In this paper, an administration implementation of the IDEA 2004 federal law in a school district that does not have a continuum program for exceptional students will be addressed. Factors such as assessment structures, modifications, response to interventions, individual education plans and other practices/policies will be explored in the following school district, to include what was accomplished administratively to establish an educational system of inclusion in accordance with
