EDUC230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Royal Electrical And Mechanical Engineers, Positive Behavior Support

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Education
• Course: EDUC230
• Professor: Gary Alison

Document Summary

Legislatively governed enterprise in which practitioners are concerned with issues such as due process procedures and developing idea-compliant ieps. An outgrowth of the civil rights movement and society"s changing attitudes about people with disabilities. Important part of society"s response to the needs of exceptional children and the rights of individuals with disabilities. A response brought about by parent advocacy; litigation; legislation; and, increasingly, self-advocacy by people with disabilities. Purposeful intervention designed to prevent, eliminate, and/or overcome the obstacles that might keep a child with disabilities from learning and from full and active participation in school and society. Three basic types of intervention: preventive, remedial, and compensatory. Preventive intervention to keep a potential or minor problem from becoming a disability. Most promising when they begin as early as possible. Primary prevention is designed to reduce the number of new cases (incidence) of a disability;