Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals

Quickly acquire the practical coverage and guidance you need to understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities. To understand it thoroughly, school psychologists, teachers, and other school service providers need a comprehensive resource to guide them in what this frequently amended Act means and how it should be interpreted. The first concise, yet authoritative, book of its kind on which professionals can rely to navigate this often-misunderstood law, Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals is that source. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, each chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. Written in the user-friendly and well-known Essentials format, each of the seven concise chapters covers terminology, classification, assessments/evaluations, and other topics related to IDEA. With an accompanying CD offering commentary on judicial decisions related to interpretation of IDEA, as well as references to the 2006 final regulations for IDEA 2004 and Section 504 regulations, Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals provides helpful guidelines for educational assessments and evaluations.

Quickly acquire the practical coverage and guidance you need tounderstand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act(IDEA)The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governshow states and public agencies provide early intervention, specialeducation, and related services to children with disabilities.To understand it thoroughly, school psychologists, teachers, andother school service providers need a comprehensive resource toguide them in what this frequently amended Act means and how itshould be interpreted. The first concise, yet authoritative, bookof its kind on which professionals can rely to navigate thisoften-misunderstood law, Essentials of IDEA for AssessmentProfessionals is that source.Like all the volumes in the Essentials of PsychologicalAssessment series, each chapter features numerous callout boxeshighlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensiveillustrative material, as well as test questions that help yougauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. Writtenin the user-friendly and well-known Essentials format, each of theseven concise chapters covers terminology, classificationassessments/evaluations, and other topics related to IDEA.With an accompanying CD offering commentary on judicialdecisions related to interpretation of IDEA, as well as referencesto the 2006 final regulations for IDEA 2004 and Section 504regulations, Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionalsprovides helpful guidelines for educational assessments andevaluations.

Series Preface xiAcknowledgments xiiiOne Overview of the IDEA 2004 1Two IDEA Terminology 23Three IDEA and Evaluations/Assessments 49Four Special Considerations When Testing for Specific Learning Disabilities 77Five IDEA and Classification/Eligibility 107Six IDEA and Behavior 139Seven IDEA, Section 504, and ADA 157Eight IDEA and Damages 179Nine FERPA and the PPRA: Confidential Records 199Appendix A Common Abbreviations and Acronyms 227Appendix B CD-ROM Contents 231References 249Annotated Bibliography 261Author Index 265Subject Index 267About the Authors 285About the CD-ROM 287