Intended for curriculum supervisors, directors, or specialists, the paper considers some general long-term implications of Public Law 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, and the relation of those implications to curriculum. Among areas discussed are federal control, parental factors, perspectives of administrative-staff…

Curriculum is an essential element in Individualized Education Program (IEP) development, which has often been left to special education teachers unequipped for the task. A lack of district-wide curriculum foundations leads to haphazard decision-making. Teachers have often relied on their own content biases, speculations, and standardized tests…

Intended for those concerned with curriculum development, the document presents a general change model for the development of individualized education programs (IEP) for handicapped students, to implement the IEP component of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. The Model outlines several stages in each of the…