WK2C

Learning Resources

Required Resources:

• Course Text: Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education

• • Chapter 1, “The Purpose and Promise of Special Education” (pp. 9–19, 22–37, 40–44)
  • Chapter 2, “Planning and Providing Special Education Services” (pp. 51–84)

• Web Site: Snow, K. (2008). People first language. Retrieved from http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/images/PDF/pfl09.pdf
  Used by permission of Katie Snow. http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/

Optional Readings and Resources

• Early Childhood Special Education Least Restrictive Environment Guidance Paper
  http://www.isbe.state.il.us/earlychi/pdf/ECSE_LRE_guidance.pdf
  To open this document you will need the free Adobe® Reader® software.
• All Children Have Individual Needs: Building an Inclusive Preschool for All Program
  http://cainclusion.org/camap/pdfs/CCLC0904.pdf
  To open this document you will need the free Adobe® Reader® software.
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
  http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/pl108-446.pdf
• US Department of Education
  Building the Legacy of IDEA 2004
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  Content Review
  
  

  Directions:

  • Respond to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2- to 3-paragraphs in length.
  • Use MS Word to write your responses, and submit your answers to all three questions in one Word document.
  • Copy and paste each question within the document, so that your Instructor can see which question you are responding to.

• Explain why the following terms should not be used interchangeably: impairment, disability, handicap, and at risk.

• Explain how each of the six major principles of IDEA will guide your thinking about working with young children as a child development professional. Based on what you learned in the first 2 weeks of the course, if you could recommend a change to IDEA in its next authorization that would do more to positively affect children ages 0–5, what would it be, and why?

• 1. IDEA requires that all children with special needs, birth to 3 years old, receive services in their “natural environment” and those children older than 3 be educated in the “least restrictive environment.” Imagine that as a child development professional, you are part of an IEP team for a preschool child identified with a special need. Describe at least three considerations that would be essential to deciding what the least restrictive environment would be for that child.