Zero Reject- A school must give every child with a disability an education no matter what the disability is or what the severity of it is. No child with a disability can be excluded from receiving an education from a public school. If a child has a disability and is between the ages of six to seventeen the public education system is required to provide special education to them. If children from the ages of three to five and eighteen to twenty-one receive educational services from the state, the state must also educate children with disabilities in those age groups. The child find system required each state education agency to locate, identify, and evaluate all children from birth to age twenty-one, who lives within the state who has disabilities or may be suspected of having disabilities. …show more content…
The education they receive must not cost the child’s parents. In order to meet the needs of the student with the disability an individualized education program (IEP) must be developed and applied. An IEP shows what the student’s educational needs are, identifies long-term goals and short-term objectives, informs of the level of the student’s performance, and describes the services that should be provided to help the child benefit from the education and help the child achieve the goals that are set in the IEP.
Protection in Evaluation- Schools must evaluate students in a nonbiased multifactored way to determine if the child has a disability and, if so, whether special education is needed. The evaluation and testing procedures cannot discriminate because of culture, race or any other reason. Tests must be given to the child in their first