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This 8 page paper examines the changes in IDEA that affects parents and teachers. How it affects social work practice is a focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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child. Schools notoriously want to follow certain rules and treat all the children the same, at least as much as possible. Along comes IDEA and there is change. For students
with special needs, and a diagnosed disability, there is something called an IEP or Individual Education Plan. The IEP is actually something that is mandated by IDEA (Marshall, 2004). It
is a plan where individual and specific goals are set and such a directive is officially implemented (2004). Each school district is required to provide special services for children who
have these individualized plans (2004). For sometime time, IDEA has set up a situation where the children and parents are empowered, resulting in a situation where the children are to
be placed in the least restrictive environment. This to some extent sets up a problem for the teacher. Teachers have to control a classroom of twenty or thirty kids quite
often and if they have several children with IEPs it is hard to cater to each childs needs. What happens is that these children are singled out, put up front,
and some of the other children suffer as a result. Yet, special schooling can be detrimental to the child who is singled out. An example of how special education fails
comes from Freedman (1995) as he explains that as a special education hearing officer, he had the opportunity to work with a student named "Thomas." Thomas was a high school
student and extremely artistic (1995). He also had a learning disability and was placed in a private school for the learning-disabled; he attended high school there, where a focus
was on his weakness (1995). His reading skills improved but he stopped doing his art (1995). Freedman ends the story with this question: "I have thought about Tom often. Did
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