IDEA- US

OTHER COUNTRIES
SUPPORTING SPECIAL AND
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Trisha Mae Posada
 IDEA-US

• The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

is a federal law that created rules and guidelines for
special education. The law gives eligible children with
disabilities rights to the specially designed instruction
and individualized services and supports they need to
benefit from public education.
 The IDEA has six
foundational principles
 Principle 1: Free Appropriate Public
Education (FAPE)
The IDEA gives each eligible child with disabilities the right to a free appropriate
public education.
 Principle 2: Individualized Education
Program (IEP)
• IEP is a written statement for each child with a disability that is
developed, reviewed, and revised at least once a year by a team.
 Principle 3: Appropriate Evaluation
• The IDEA requires that a student must receive an evaluation before
providing special education services.
Principle 4: Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

• LRE means that a child with a disability must be educated within the same
classroom as typical mainstreamed non-disabled peers to the fullest extent
possible in order to ensure that a disabled child is receiving a free
appropriate public education (FAPE).
 Principle 5: Parent Participation

• The IDEA is very specific about what schools must do to ensure that
parents have the opportunity to be active participants in each step of the
special education process.
 Principle 6: Procedural Safeguards

• The IDEA includes important procedural safeguards to ensure that the

rights of children with disabilities and their parents are protected and that
they have access to the information needed to effectively participate in the
process.
 OTHER COUNTRIES SUPPORTING
SPECIAL AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
 UNITED STATES
• The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) ensures that
children with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education.
 CANADA
Canada have from intellectual disability as Well as number of charitable
support to those intellectual disabilities, in order to promote greater tax
equity.
 UNITED KINGDOM

The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice

provides guidelines for supporting children with special educational needs
and disabilities.
 AUSTRIA (EUROPE)
• In Austria and the majority of other European countries, most policies
concerning inclusive education are reduced to a focus on disability.
 CYPRUS
Within the last decade, the government of Cyprus has encouraged and
supported the education of children assessed as having special needs into the
mainstream educational system.
 DENMARK
• In Denmark all children are entitled to ten years of education, and this
includes children with special educational needs.
 SCOTLAND
• In Scotland, the term additional support needs is used instead of SEN. As
well as children with disabilities, this also encompasses children who may
need support for reasons other than disability, such as children who are
being bullied or who are in foster care.
THANK YOU!!!