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| (ADA) Americans with Disabilities Act | federal law - enacted in 1990, that prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's disability for all services, programs, and activities provided or made available by state and local government |
| Due process | a set of procedures or safeguards that gives students with disabilities and their parents extensive rights - notice of meetings, opportunities to examine relevant records, impartial hearings, and a review procedure |
| (FERPA) Family Education Rights and Privacy Act | gives students and parents access to school records and limits others' access to those records |
| Inclusion | strive to educate a child with disabilities in his or her neighborhood school and in the regular educational classroom as much as possible |
| (IEP) Individualized education plan | developed by a team of professionals and the child's caregivers - determines how the child is doing, what his or her learning needs are, and what services he or she needs - Required under public law 94-142, the IDEA |
| (IDEA) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | federal statute, enacted in 1990 that has resulted in several grant programs to states in educating students with disabilities. The IDEA specifically lists types of disabilities and conditions that render a child entitled to a special education |
| (LRE) Least Restrictive Environment | an educational setting that, to the maximum extent appropriate, allows students with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled peers |
| Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act | a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities by federally assisted programs or activities. |
| Equal Access | students have legal rights to equal access to a quality education |
| First Amendment Rights | respecting the establishment of religion, free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to make a complaint to the government without fear of reprisals. |
| Intellectual Freedom | the right to freedom and expression of thought - can run into issues with appropriate content and censorship |
| Liability | these issues in schools are based on a claim of negligence |
| Privacy and Confidentiality | only share information with those who need to know it |
| Reporting child abuse or neglect | you have a legal responsibility to report what you observe in terms of child neglect or abuse |
