September 13, 2007 (class #4)

Class outline:

4:20-4:30	Quick questions and quandaries. Announcements: If you did not get an exceptionality category last week, you need to find someone who did but who does not yet have a partner. Presentations start on Sept. 27 – please come and see me if you need help accessing resources for your project. (Note: introductory special education textbooks would be a good resource – there are a number in Zimmerman Library).
4:30-5:00	Small group activity - Jigsaw on IDEA's 6 principles (FAPE, Zero reject, Nondiscriminatory evaluation, LRE, Due process, and parent and student participation). Groups will be assigned by Julia: Provide a formal definition of your assigned proinciple. Describe critical aspects of this principle, parent friendly language. Discuss what this principle means from the point of view of a child, parent/guardian, and school personnel. Use the information provided in your readings for today and last week, Mandlawitz (2007), any resources you have, as well as information from the following sources: A handout on IDEA's 6 principles from the Learning Disabilities Association of America: http://www.ldaamerica.org/aboutld/parents/special_ed/print_principles.asp A handout of FAPE from the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/edlite-FAPE504.html A handout from Wrightslaw on LRE: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/lre.osers.memo.idea.htm A memo from the New Mexico Public Education Depertment on LRE: http://www.ped.state.nm.us/seo/lre/lre.faq.pdf
5:00-5:30	Report out from groups
5:30-5:40	Break
5:40-6:45	Interactive presentation on IDEA, NCLB, and Section 504
6:45-6:50	Minute paper

Overheads:

• PowerPoint

.Related Links:

• The Wrightslaw web site has a comparison of IDEA and Section 504: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/sec504.summ.rights.htm
• This page from Wrightslaw discuss key aspects of Section 504 and the ADA: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/section504.ada.peer.htm
• Look at this page from the US Dept of Justice for information on the application of ADA to child care centers: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/childq%26a.htm
• This page provides an overview of the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR): http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/aboutocr.html
• THis page provides links to in-depth information about disability discrimination and OCR: http://www.ed.gov/policy/rights/guid/ocr/disability.html