Education Law

Running head: EDUCATION LAW
Education Law
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Answer to Question no 1
a. Related Service refers to the special attention that is needed to help a ‘differently
abled child’. Section 300.34 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA) states that Related Services signifies transportation, developmental,
supportive and corrective services which are required to support a child with
disability1. Providing Speech and language therapy to a child who has severe speech
disorder is an example of related service.
b. Accommodation means the assistance and the service that is provided to support
students, who are in general or special educational curriculum. For example, allowing
longer duration to a student to finish a test or an assignment so that the student could
grasp the concept in depth.
c. Section 300.39(b)(3) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
states that Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) means changing as per the
requirement of a child with disability to support the unique needs of a particular child
which is the result of such disability and to provide education in general curriculum to
the child2. An excellent example of SDI involves the use of cover-copy-compare
(CCC) to teach computational curriculum for mathematics3.
Answer to Question no 2
The primary holding of the Endrew F case states that to attain the substantive
obligation of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) an Individual Education
1 'Sec. 300.34 Related Services | Individuals With Disabilities Education Act' ( Sites.ed.gov, 2018)
<https://sites.ed.gov/idea/regs/b/a/300.34> accessed 13 November 2018.
2 'Sec. 300.39 Special Education | Individuals With Disabilities Education Act' (Sites.ed.gov, 2018)
<https://sites.ed.gov/idea/regs/b/a/300.39> accessed 13 November 2018.
3 'Specially Designed Instruction | United Federation Of Teachers' (Uft.org, 2018)
<http://www.uft.org/teaching/specially-designed-instruction> accessed 13 November 2018.

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Plan (IEP) must be offered by a school to ensure that the child thrives best at his or her own
unique circumstances4.
The Supreme Court extended the boundary of the definition of FAPE and added that a
FAPE is an education that strives to provide opportunities to attain academic success to a
child with disability and it must be equal to the facilities and opportunities that are offered to
children without disabilities5.
Answer to Question No 3
The value of response-to-intervention for diagnosing potential learning
disabilities
Learning disabilities are the ability of a person to understand a language or use it,
incapability to do the calculations, incapacity to make coordinate movements or to pay
attention. It can be diagnosed when the children is in school6. It affects the ability of a person
to gather or link information which they derive from their different part of their brain. The
difficulties can be reflected on their performance in the school or in their intelligence
quotient. To diagnose the learning disability response to intervention is used as a test that
requires monitoring the progress of all students closely to identify the problem. This test is
very significant as it helps to detect the issues in the children and provides the children with
help on different stages. This test may help evaluate the children struggling with learning
disabilities with the help of medical exam including neurological tests7. A group of specialist
work to make the evaluation. Moreover, the test helps in measuring the problems of the
student and providing help to the child by developing an individualized education plan.
4 'Individuals With Disabilities Education Act | IDEA' (Sites.ed.gov, 2018) <https://sites.ed.gov/idea/> accessed
13 November 2018.
5 Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District Re-1
6 Fletcher, Jack M., et al. Learning disabilities: From identification to intervention. Guilford Publications, 2018.
7 Burns, Matthew K., and Kimberly Gibbons. Implementing response-to-intervention in elementary and
secondary schools: Procedures to assure scientific-based practices. Routledge, 2013.