Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) : Identification and Misidentification of Children with Disabilities.

Discusses issues related to the identification and misidentification of children with disabilities. Provides Congressional background on the enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-142) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (P.L. 105-17). Categorize...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2001.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Discusses issues related to the identification and misidentification of children with disabilities. Provides Congressional background on the enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-142) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (P.L. 105-17). Categorizes disabilities, and provides numbers of students served by special education, number of children with various disabilities, gender differences among students identified as disabled, distribution of disabilities by race and ethnicity, and possible policy alternatives. Includes graphs.
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