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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), first passed in 1975 as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, is a United States (U.S.) law that provides federal funds to the states for education of students with disabilities. It sets out regulations to protect the rights of, and provides for, the individual educational and related service needs of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities. The 1975 legislation represented the first allocation of public resources for schools to provide free appropriate public education (FAPE) and related services, including mental health, to youth with disabilities. It also established due process in providing these services. IDEA, renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act in 1990, was most recently reauthorized by Congress in 2004. IDEA today serves more than 6.8 million students and 200,000 eligible infants and toddlers with $12.4 billion in federal funds authorized for...

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Suggested Reading

  • Heward, W. L. (2006). Exceptional children: An introduction to special education, 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.

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  • Yell, M. L. (2006). The law and special education, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

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  • United States Department of Education IDEA information and resources page—http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/idea2004.html: This government website provides news, information, statistics and resources on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 as well as information on other related policies.

  • National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) IDEA information page—http://www.nichcy.org/idealist.htm: This NICHCY website provides materials that relate to the latest reauthorization of IDEA, IDEA 2004. Topics include assessment and procedural safeguards.

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  1. School of Medicine, Center for School Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

    Catharine L A Weiss & Jennifer E Mettrick

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  1. Catharine L A Weiss
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  1. Department of Educational Psychology, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, U.S.A.

    Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology) (Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology)

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Weiss, C.L.A., Mettrick, J.E. (2010). Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). In: Clauss-Ehlers, C.S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71799-9_212

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