APSY1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rehabilitation Act Of 1973, Down Syndrome, Asperger Syndrome

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY1031
• Professor: Francesca Longo

Document Summary

Are learning-disabled kids tossed aside? (source: abc news) Suit filed against nyc dept of education. Laws and regulation surrounding helping children with learning disabilities: poor funding. Idea act: schools evaluate performance, not wait and fail . Unable to get special education, one family moved . Wasn"t able to get special education in texas (no more than 8. 5% of children in each school district can get special education) Idea act: provides some federal funding to states. Section 504 of rehabilitation act of 1973: prevents discrimination based on disability but doesn"t provide any funding, can restrict schools funding if they are out of compliance. Both policies mandate students to receive free appropriate public education: be in inclusive classroom as much as possible and not separate services. List of indicators: way that federal government can track how well they"re doing with providing services to children in the states, when deciding funding, look at these indicators.