Research Report: Impact of Disability Education Act on Children

This research report delves into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and its profound impact on children with disabilities. It begins with an introduction to IDEA, emphasizing its role in ensuring free and appropriate public education for eligible students, including related services and special education. The report highlights the act's objectives, such as supporting students' progress in school and giving parents a voice in their children's education. It explores the importance of secondary data sources, including literature reviews and opinions from various scholars. The report then examines the core concepts of IDEA, ensuring that all children with specific requirements have access to a free and appropriate public education. It outlines the act's principles, including free appropriate public education, appropriate evaluation, individualized education programs (IEPs), parent and teacher participation, and procedural safeguards. The conclusion summarizes the significance of the Disability Education Act in helping students achieve their educational goals and improve their skills. The report also includes references to books and journals that support the research.

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RESEARCH TOPIC
“To identify the impact of Disability Education Act on Children.”
INTRODUCTION
The individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a federal legislation that needs schools
in order to save the educational requirement of eligible students with disability. Beside this,
education sector play vital and important role in evaluating and finding students suspected of
having disabilities or inability at no cost to parents (American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, 2016). Main purpose of individuals with Disabilities Education Act is to give a
free appropriate and relevant public education to children with disabilities. Once students are
known as having a disability, education sector must give them with related services and special
educations like counselling and speech therapy in order to meet their unique requirements. The
goal and objective of this act is to support students make success or progress in school.
Rational of the Topic
Main reason behind selecting this topic is to identify the importances and impact of
Disability Education Act on Children. Goal of this act is to provide parents a voice in their
child's education. In this, they have to say in the decision of educational. Such act governs how
public and states agencies give early intervention, related services and special education to more
than 6.5 million eligible children, toddlers, youth and infants with disabilities. Since 1975,
Disability Education Act was developed to give individuals or children with any learning,
physical or mental disabilities equal support to education. In this protection also provided to the
children under the discrimination and harassment law and self wealth quality for independence in
their educational and post educational lives (Armstrong, Armstrong and Barton, 2016). Disability
Education Act also support the children and individual to learn new things and improve their
ability in education sector. Main purpose and motive of the individuals with disabilities
education act is ensure that each and every children or student with disability have gettable to
them a free accurate public education that focuses special and particular education and related
better services designed to fulfil the unique requirements and prepare them for future education.
Thus, it is more effective and essential for the student to accomplish education goals and
objectives within predetermined time period. It will also support them to increase their ability for
future improvement and development in education sector.
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Secondary source
Secondary data refer to information which is gathered by someone who is person other
than the user. One of the common and main sources of secondary information include censuses,
data gathered by government departments, enterprise data and records that was originally
accumulated for other purpose of research. Sources of secondary research may include graphics,
quotes of primary sources. Textbooks, histories, journal articles, encyclopedias, commentaries
are identify as a main sources of secondary data (Asch, 2017). Along with this, literature review
is also important and essential part for collecting accurate and relevant amount of data. In this,
different number of authors and scholars are give their opinion about the research topic.
Concept of Disability Education Act on Children: Each and every children deserves a
better quality equation. This act ensures that entire children with particular requirements have
approach to a free appropriate public education. This act is identify as an effective and important
tool for the educational sector in order to identify needs and wants of children. The act or
legislation regulate how states as well as public agencies like department of defence, give early
intervention and provide better services to children who are not eligible and have disability and
ages birth via 21. Thus, this act support the children to increase their knowledge and skills.
Importance and impact of Disability Education Act on Children: Education is more
important and essential for those children who are face disability issue at place. Provisions made
with such act have positively modified the delivery of particular education services in across the
globe. Apart from the this, better and special system of education has given for the student for
their educations (Kurth, 2015). There are different principles which is guide by the such act and
has importance on children as well as educational sector.
Free appropriate public education: It is an essential principles that makes sure each and
every student, regardless of disability, that has right in order to achieved educational sector and
obtain an education tailored to accomplish highest potential of children.
Appropriate evaluation: The process of testing is regulated or govern so children get the
personalised education services and placement.
The individualized education program: It is a type of written document which is
developed for all children or student in the public school system who is desirable for particular
education. Thus, it is highly and positively impact on children to increase their skills in education
sector.
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Parent and Teacher participation: It is another principle of Disability Education Act on
Children which is essential of teachers and parents working with each other to accomplish
educational goals of children.
Procedural safeguards: It is an place to protect or assist the rights and power of families
with particular requirements (Muschkin, Ladd and Dodge, 2015). Procedural safeguards or
measure make sure school doors are already open to student with inability and that education
sector are prepared in order conform to them academically.
Thus, all these are important and essential principles of Disability Education Act support
the student and children to increase their ability and achieve educational goals and objectives
within predetermined time period.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned information, it can be concluded that Disability Education Act
is essential and important for the children and student because it help them to accomplish their
educational goals. It is also essential and beneficial for student to increase their skills and
knowledge within facing any type of issue.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2016). Scope of practice in speech-language
pathology.
Armstrong, F., Armstrong, D., & Barton, L. (2016). Inclusive education: Policy, contexts and
comparative perspectives. Routledge.
Asch, A. (2017). Critical race theory, feminism, and disability: Reflections on social justice and
personal identity. In Disability and Equality Law (pp. 143-176). Routledge.
Kurth, J. A. (2015). Educational placement of students with autism: The impact of state of
residence. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. 30(4). 249-256.
Muschkin, C. G., Ladd, H. F., & Dodge, K. A. (2015). Impact of North Carolina’s early
childhood initiatives on special education placements in third grade. Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 37(4). 478-500.
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