Transfer of rights from parents to students with disabilities - ✔✔ correct answer - Federal law requires all
IEP's include a statement at least one year before the student turns 18 specifying which rights will
transfer over from the parents to the student
- Rights transfer from parents to student at 18
- Only exceptions are guardianship and certification
Educational rights of students with disabilities once they are 18 year olds - ✔✔ correct answer - These
rights include: what disability a student has
- how it affects their abilities for independent living and learning
- the right to an IEP development meeting held within 30 calendar days of eligibility determination for
special education services
- to advance notice of the place, date, and time of the IEP meeting
- to be informed if an IEP team member cannot or need not to come to the IEP meeting
- to be apart of their own IEP team and meetings
- right to have needed accommodations provided in IEP meeting
- right to know how their school will measure their progress towards yearly IEP goals
- to receive progress reports periodically
- right to receive related services (transportation, medical, speech-language pathology, PT, OT, and
counseling
- right to request reevaluation of IEP meeting if their needs are not being served (35 school days is when
its due)
- right to disagree with any educational records and receive copies of their current IEP's at no charge
- right to file citizen complaints
- right to request due process hearings
- right to request mediation concerning special education disputes
Transition services provided by schools - ✔✔ correct answer - designed to help students w/ disabilities
to prepare for post secondary activities
- vocational education
-development training
- higher education
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- adult education
- continuing education
- independent living
- adult services
- community participation
- Students IEP must include appropriate, ,measurable goals for life after after secondary school by the
time the student is 16
Responsibilities for IEP team members in addressing safety issues - ✔✔ correct answer - Gen ed
teachers, para's, and other school staff that interact with that student should be informed of any safety
concerns, possible issues, or required supervision
- preventive training is also necessary for all special and gen ed teachers, administrators, bus drivers,
lunchroom supervisors, substitute teachers, para's, and other support staff
Responsibility and liability in the event of student injury - ✔✔ correct answer - educators should NOT
assume that parental waivers, permission slips, or releases will relieve teachers of liability for student
injury
-parents can NOT waive children's claim for damages
- teachers are always obligated to provide appropriate supervision
- Experts advise heavily for teachers to thoroughly record keep (anecdotal records or witness signatures)
- teachers should notify supervisors, administrators, and parents of any situations that could enable
liability claims
Child neglect and abuse - ✔✔ correct answer - child neglect and abuse definition: recent failure to act,
or action, resulting in imminent danger of death, serious physical or emotional or other harm, sexual
abuse, or exploitation, of a child younger than 18 years by a parent, teacher babysitter, or caregiver
responsible for the child's welfare
- sexual abuse definition: using, enticing, persuading, employing, inducing, or coercing any child to
engage or help anybody engage in sexually explicit conduct or simulation thereof to produce any visual
depiction of it
- OR incest, rape, molestation, statutory rape, prostitution or or any other sexual exploitation of children