Provide a description of each component below.
IDEA 2004
Section 504
ADA
Type of Law/Administrative Office/Enforcing Agency
The IDEA is a four-phased public law that ensures children with disabilities across the United States have access to Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), which is suited for their unique needs. The act is enforced by the ministry of education through the national education system and through groups such as the Society for Disability studies, Disabled Peoples' International USA, and the local education agency (LEA).
Section 504 is a provision of American Civil rights law that ensures people with disabilities are not discriminated. The school, district, and regular education leaders are responsible for the government of this act. The legislation is enforced through higher education institutions by making their academic programs accessible to students with disabilities who are qualified. The provision also necessitates the K-12 school to render their benefits equivocally to children with disabilities.
The American Disability Act (ADA) is a provision of the Civil Rights Law. The provision prevents the job discrimination of qualified people with disabilities in public and corporate staffing activities. Local governments and agencies are required to accommodate people with disabilities by instituting friendly rules, practices, and policies. the enforcing agencies include the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), the Health and Human Services (HHS), and Administration of Community Living (Brennan, 2018).
Not all children with attention or learning difficulties qualify for special education IDEA. To qualify, a child must have one of these disabilities covered by 1DEA, language or Speech impairment,
Autism,
Deafness,
Hearing impairment,
Multiple disabilities,
Orthopedic impairment, Intellectual disability, emotional instability, specific learning disability, visual impairment, traumatic brain injury or any other incapacitating health impairment.
To be eligible in the Section...
one must have a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits their ability to execute life activities, has a history of such impairment or is considered to have such a disability. Notably, the term disability in these provision has a legal rather than a medical understanding.
Evaluation Procedures/Guidelines
Presence of either of the disabilities categorized in IDEA does not mean the child automatically qualifies for IDEA. As a result, they have to need special education to advance in school.
Mental impairment in Section 504 refers to presence any psychological or mental such as organic brain disorder, mental or emotional illness, development, and intellectual disorder or a specific learning disorder such as depression, drug and substances addiction, social maladjustment or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Physical impairment encapsulates cosmetic disfiguration, amputation of limbs and anatomical loss of a body system or any physiological disorder.
The physical and mental evaluation necessitates the incapacitation to execute activities that are critical in everyday life for sustenance and healthy leaving. A person also must have a record of mental or physical impairment even though they currently may not have the disability. Further, they may have an impairment that does not limit them from executing daily tasks, have a disorder that limits them from executing the task, or do not have any impairment, but are an individual with an impairment (Brennan, 2018).
Services Provided
Schools where a child with a disability are enrolled to offer an Individualized Education Program (IEP) to suit the needs of the child. Whenever a child qualifies for the service, an IEP team examines their needs and design a suitable educational plan (Series, 2015).
The child with the disability is…
