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Serving Students with Autism: Ensuring a Place for Applied Behavior Analysis
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Barnett, Juliet E. Hart – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
The prevalence rate of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has grown dramatically, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires educators to use evidence-based practices to improve academic and/or behavior outcomes for children with ASD. There is definitive scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of applied behavior…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Applied Behavior Analysis, Intervention
Impossible Parents?
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Analyzes Indiana case involving a school district's efforts to obtain a limited education guardianship and the medical records for a 16-year-old special-education student whose mother refused to cooperate in the development of an IEP. The state appellate court reversed the trail court's decision granting the district's requests. Discusses…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, High School Students, Individualized Education Programs, Parent Responsibility
No Child Left Ahead?
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2003
A court case involving a student classified as a child with a disability and her battle to be named valedictorian of her graduating class. Questions the district's determination that this gifted student needed special education and the grade inflation indicated by undue competition for the extra thousandth of a point GPA. (Contains 11 references.)…
Descriptors: Commencement Ceremonies, Court Litigation, Grade Point Average, High Schools
Another Withering Decision.
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Summarizes a case involving a district's alleged violation of a neurologically impaired student's rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504). The Third Circuit Court ruled that IDEA's "stay-put" rule did not excuse the district from developing a timely individualized…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Court Litigation, Elementary Education, Individualized Education Programs
Courtside: With Liberty and Liability for All?
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In September 1997, the Ridgewood, New Jersey, school district placed J.N., then age 11, in the Windsor School, per the IEP (individualized education program) team's identification of his special needs for structure, safety, and security. As a state-approved private special education school, Windsor signed an agreement with Ridgewood for the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Individualized Education Programs, Special Education, Private Schools
Courtside: Rightful Liability?
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
Adam Coolidge lives with his parents in the Riverdale Local School District, which is in rural northwestern Ohio. In spring 1996, prior to enrolling Adam in kindergarten, his parents met with district representatives to discuss moving him from an early intervention program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). His…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Workers Compensation, Individualized Education Programs, Inclusive Schools
Courtside: Settle Good?
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In the Spring of 1998 the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools hired Dr. Pamela Settlegoode as an adapted physical education teacher for the coming academic year. Her job was to provide adapated PE to students with disabilities in three different schools and to draft individualized education plans (IEPs) in accordance with federal law. Soon after…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Federal Legislation, Physical Education Teachers, Civil Rights
Courtside: Deal Right?
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
This examination of a case that is seeking to determine whether a district in Tennessee met its obligation under the Individuals with Disabilities Act to provide a "free appropriate public education" to a student with autism concludes that the courts' decisions to date are already literally remarkable for several reasons. These reasons…
Descriptors: Related Services (Special Education), Extended School Year, Compliance (Legal), Kindergarten