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Where Do Students with Disabilities Usually Receive Education Services? IDEA Factsheet: #3
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Center for Public Education, 2020
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that schools assist students with disabilities to develop independent living skills and abilities essential to succeed in most of their life's endeavors. According to the law, each student with a disability must have an individualized education program (IEP), and the IEP must address…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
The Special Education System in Poland: From Segregation to Inclusion
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Sekulowicz, Malgorzata; Sekulowicz, Agnieszka – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2015
The changing of the political and economic systems in Poland ushered in changes in the education system, including special education. After many years of segregation and social exclusion of children with disabilities, ideas of autonomy, normalization, and integration initiated the building of a modern system of education of children and youth.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Educational Change, Educational History
Current Trends in Special Education in Spain: Do They Reflect Legislative Mandates of Inclusion?
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Cardona, Cristina M. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2009
Over the past decades significant changes have occurred throughout all aspects of the field of Special Education in Spain. One of these changes is related to appropriate and effective instruction for students with disabilities and diverse educational needs in inclusive classroom placements. All of these change efforts have created the need to…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools, Social Integration, Disabilities
Language of Inclusion and Diversity: Policy Discourses and Social Practices in Finnish and Norwegian Schools
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Arnesen, Anne-Lise; Mietola, Reetta; Lahelma, Elina – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2007
The terrain of inclusion studies in discussed in this paper from the perspective of policy discourses and teachers' constructions on student diversity. We start by discussing the concept of inclusion from normative and analystic perspectives. We then look at the kinds of discourses that can be found in the Finnish and Norwegian curricula, as well…
Descriptors: Special Classes, Ethnography, Student Diversity, Vocational Education
Students with Disabilities, Learning Difficulties and Disadvantages: Policies, Statistics and Indicators--2007
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OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages (DDD). It highlights the number of students involved, where they are educated--special schools, special classes or regular classes--and in what phases of education--pre-primary,…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Learning Problems, Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools
The Turkish Standardization of the Meadow-Kendall Social-Emotional Assessment Inventory for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Students
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Polat, Filiz – American Annals of the Deaf, 2006
The article present results of standardization of the Meadow-Kendall Social-Emotional Assessment Inventory for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Students (Meadow, 1983), school-age version, for use in Turkey. The SEAI is a 59-item measure for assessing socioemotional adjustment of school-age deaf and hearing impaired students. A sample of 1,097 deaf…
Descriptors: Turkish, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Emotional Adjustment