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Direct linkTrapp, Laura; Gershwin, Tracy; Robinson, Jason – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act requires schools to conduct a manifestation determination (MD) meeting when suspending students with disabilities for more than 10 days. The MD procedure is intended to safeguard educational access by providing a process to determine if a student's disability is related to the suspending behavior. An…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Meetings, Students with Disabilities, Student Behavior
Download full textHassert, Derrick L.; Kelly, Amanda N.; Pritchard, Joshua K.; Cautilli, Joseph D. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
Applied behavior analysis is a hybrid tradition with roots in many mental health disciplines. Even with these diverse origins, the professional practice of behavior analysis remains distinct and identifiable. Given these factors the professional practice special interest group (SIG) for the Association for Behavior Analysis International has…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Certification, Behavior Problems, Mental Health
Peer reviewedMarston, John R. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2001
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 mandated a shift from reactive strategies toward proactive interventions with students who experience both disability and behavioral challenges. The author describes how the methodology of Life Space Crisis Intervention can provide a source of data for functional assessment…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Conflict Resolution, Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques
Eckert, Tanya L.; Martens, Brian K.; DiGennaro, Florence D. – School Psychology Review, 2005
Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (A-B-C) recordings are often used in school settings as part of a functional assessment. A number of limitations are associated with A-B-C recordings, and a novel approach for describing data from A-B-C recordings is to compute conditional probabilities that can be graphed in the general operant contingency space to…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Investigations, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Probability
Osborne, Allan G., Jr. – School Business Affairs, 1998
The 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act amendments include discipline-related provisions that expand school officials' authority to deal with disabled students caught with weapons or drugs or exhibiting dangerous behaviors and clarify procedures governing manifestation determination, provision of educational services during…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Court Litigation, Disabilities, Discipline
Peer reviewedOsborne, Allan G., Jr. – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
Under provisions of the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments, school officials may change a disruptive student's placement before the situation escalates and requires disciplinary measures. IDEA's purpose is to address students' disabilities, including those causing them to misbehave. Also, disabled students may be suspended…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education
Gorn, Susan – 1999
Presented in a question-and-answer format, this book provides information related to how schools can effectively discipline students. It reviews in detail the controlling directives of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 1997 as it concerns students with disabilities and provides information on how the amended statute and new…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Court Litigation, Disabilities, Discipline Policy
Peer reviewedMorrissey, Patricia – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
In passing the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997, Congress tackled tough issues regarding educating students with disabilities. This article addresses four changes to IDEA and their implications for secondary principals, including suspension of handicapped students without educational services, development of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Discipline, Expulsion
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services. – 2000
This policy statement from the Michigan Department of Education interprets federal provisions and the laws of the state as they may pertain to children receiving special education services. It describes disciplinary procedures for students already receiving special education services, students not yet eligible for special education, students…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Conflict Resolution, Disabilities, Discipline Policy
Peer reviewedZurkowski, Joyce K.; Kelly, Peter S.; Griswold, Deborah E. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Reviews the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act relating to short-term and long-term suspension. New protections for students with disabilities and the new tools for administrators to be used in addressing behaviors are discussed, including placement of students with disabilities in interim alternative-educational…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Discipline Policy, Educational Legislation
Peer reviewedTelzrow, Cathy F. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2001
Telephone interviews with 74 Ohio special education directors examined implementation of the Interim Alternative Educational Setting (IAES) requirements in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (IDEA 97). Most directors reported that no students had been removed to an IAES since IDEA 97 implementation. Home…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Instruction
Peer reviewedKatsiyannis, Antonis; Maag, John W. – Behavioral Disorders, 1998
Discusses issues related to implementing the new discipline provisions in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997. Litigation that led to the new provisions is described, along with issues relating to conducting functional assessments, making a manifestation determination, generating interim placements, and cessation of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Discipline Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedConroy, Maureen; Clark, Denise; Gable, Robert A.; Fox, James J. – Preventing School Failure, 1999
Examines likely changes in the roles and responsibilities of public school personnel from the implementation of disciplinary provisions of the 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Also addresses implementing functional behavioral assessments and behavioral intervention plans, and provides guidelines for implementing…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Discipline Policy, Educational Legislation
Horton, Janet L. – School Administrator, 1999
Discretion and regulatory flexibility must be managed without violating the amended, reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Misbehaving disabled students may be removed from their educational placements for 10 consecutive days or less--the same punishment meted out to regular students. Longer-term placements need IEP team…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Behavior Problems, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities
Ingram, Kimberly; Lewis-Palmer, Teri; Sugai, George – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2005
Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) has been suggested for facilitating the development and effectiveness of behavior intervention plans. In this study, the researchers examined whether behavior intervention plans based on FBA information (function-based) were more effective than behavior intervention plans not based on FBA information…
Descriptors: Intervention, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Researchers, Behavior Problems
