Learning Resources
Required Resources:
Course Text:
 
Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education
Chapter 1, "The Purpose and Promise of Special Education" (pp. 9
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19, 22
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37, 40
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44)
Chapter 2, "Planning and Providing Special Education Services" (pp. 51–84)
Web Site
: Snow, K. (2008). 
People first language.
 Retrieved from
http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/images/PDF/pfl09.pdf
Used by permission of Katie Snow. 
http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/
Optional Readings and Resources
Early Childhood Special Education Least Restrictive Environment Guidance Paper
http://www.isbe.state.il.us/earlychi/pdf/ECSE_LRE_guidance.pdf
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All Children Have Individual Needs: Building an Inclusive Preschool for All Program
http://cainclusion.org/camap/pdfs/CCLC0904.pdf
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/pl108-446.pdf
US Department of Education
Building the Legacy of IDEA 2004
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Content Review
Directions
:
Respond to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2- to 3-paragraphs in length.
Use MS Word to write your responses, and submit your answers to all three questions in one 
Word document
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Copy and paste each question within the document, so that your Instructor can see which question you are responding to.
 
 
 
 
Explain why the following terms should 
not
 be used interchangeably: 
impairment, disability, handicap,
 and 
at risk.
Explain how each of the six major principles of IDEA will guide your thinking about working with young children as a child development professional. Based on what you learned in the first 2 weeks of the course, if you could recommend a change to IDEA in its next authorization that would do more to positively affect children ages 0–5, what would it be, and why?
IDEA requires that all children with special needs, birth to 3 years old, receive services in their "natural environment" and those children older than 3 be educated in the "least restrictive environment." Imagine that as a child development professional, you are part of an IEP team for a preschool child identified with a special need. Describe at least three considerations that would be essential to deciding what the least restrictive environment would be for that child.