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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Clarifying the Relationship between Free Appropriate Public Education and Least Restrictive Environment
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Mitchell Louis Yell; M. Renee Bradley – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
In 2025, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) will have been the primary law driving the field of special education for 50 years. A contentious area of disagreement has been the relationship between two primary mandates of the law: the obligation of schools to provide a free, appropriate public education (FAPE) to eligible…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Between Two Worlds: Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities Navigating Special Education and Mainstream Classroom Settings
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Carmit Gal; Chen Hanna Ryder – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2025
Students with learning disabilities navigating both special education and mainstream classrooms face unique challenges. This qualitative study explored the experiences of five third-grade students in a Northern Israel elementary school through semi-structured Hebrew interviews. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, three themes emerged:…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Mainstreaming