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Specail Education

Special Education and the Law

The current course readings have revealed to me the magnitude of changes which special education has undergone over the years particularly the legal provisions that govern its operation in the United States . Today the key determinant of physical placement is no longer on the student 's level of disability as was earlier but on the need to modify the learning and teaching with the aim of accommodating students of all capabilities in the same classrooms . The United States Presidential National Council on Disability sums it in few

words that special education should be taken not as a `place ' but as but as `a service , available to every school ' [National Disability Council (1994 )] I must admit that this is new information to me hence it has completely changed my perception and attitude towards special education Initially I regarded special needs learning as a situation whereby those children who are deaf , blind , dumb , or mentally retarded are put in a special school that provides special learning experiences to them

The law (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - IDEA ) now provides that children with disabilities should be placed together in regular classrooms alongside other non-disabled ones . Further the law provides that special classes or removal of children with disabilities from regular classrooms should be made only in situations whereby the nature or severity of the disability hinders learning in regular classes even with the use of additional learning aids . [Public Law No . 108-446 118 Stat . 2647] As an...

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