LAWS FOR CHILDREN

WITH DISABILITIES
PRESENTATION OF SUNSHINE N. MAHINAY
 The Individual with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA)

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

provides federal funding to states to be
put toward the educational needs of children with disabilities.

IDEA covers deaf-blindness, deafness development delays, hearing

impairements, emotional disturbance, orthopedic or other health
impairment, speech or language impairement, traumatic brain injury, and
impairment (including blindness).
 THE FREE AND APPROPRIATE PUBLIC
EDUCATION (FAPE)

component of IDEA makes it mandatory for

schools to provide free and appropriate
education to all students, regardless of
intellectual level and disability.
 FAPE
is defined as an educational program that is
individualized for a specific child, designed to
meet that child’s unique needs, from which
the child receives educational benefit.
 INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION
PROGRAM (IEP)

is developed for each child who receives

special education; each plan consists of individualized
goals for the child to work toward,
and these plans are re-evaluated annually.
 LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT
(LRE)
student who has a disability should have
the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled
peers, have access to the general
education curriculum, and be provided with supplementary
aids services necessary to achieve educational goals
if placed in a setting with non-disabled peers.
 Section 504
is a civil-rights law that protects
people with disabilities from discrimination. All students
with disabilities are protected by Section 504,
even if they are not provided for by IDEA.

states that schools must ensure that a

student with a disability is educated
among peers without disabilities.
 CONCLUSION
IDEA has been a landmark piece of
legislation of children with disabilities. It has
ensured access to education, improved educational outcomes,
and promoted inclusion.