The Individual Education Plan (IEP) process plays a vital role in the instructional process of the individual with ELN (exceptional leaning needs). The IEP process helps to level the playing field for students with ELN against those students that do not have diagnosed learning problems. From the parents to the students to the IEP staff, they all…

Many books and articles have been written about a Response to Intervention (RtI) model of service delivery for students who are struggling learners. However, little has been written about this model's usefulness as a means of addressing the needs of advanced learners or twice-exceptional learners whose needs may be both remedial and advanced. The…

P.L. 94-142 mandates that parents have the right to be actively involved in their children's individualized education programs. Personnel of the Exemplary Service Project at the Exceptional Child Center, Utah State University, have found that, to make a parent part of his child's planning and implementation team, the school staff must provide…

Parent participation has been one of the key principles of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) since it was first authorized in 1975 as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA) and has continued through the most recent reauthorization in 2004. Parents of children with disabilities have decision making…

The excerpt from Parent Conferences in the Schools covers parents' rights under P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (SBH)

The authors address the need for involvement of parents of gifted children in their child's education. It is suggested that P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) provisions be extended to include the gifted. (SW)

Ways in which parents of handicapped children can learn their rights under P.L. 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, are considered. Specific areas of rights include prior notice (parental consent and content of the notice), record review, independent educational evaluation, parental involvement with Individualized Educational…

The authors focus on testimony by Senator Harrison Williams regarding parental rights under P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (SW)

The authors criticize the regulations of P.L. 94-142, The Education For All Handicapped Children Act, regarding individualized education programs (IEPs). It is suggested that although the underlying concepts of IEPs are sound philosophically and educationally, the IEP in practice is inefficient in terms of time and actually detrimental to…

The author discusses parental participation in the due process hearing as mandated by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Sections address parental participation before the due process hearing, events leading to the request of a due process hearing, and assumptions regarding the occurrence of a due process hearing. (SW)

Contends that if the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) provision of special services in parochial schools is struck down, the value system implicit in EHA that gives cognizance to parental placement of children in private schools will have been eviscerated. (MLF)

The study investigated the effects of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) on parents with disabled children through case study procedures with six families and a series of structured interviews with 26 additional families. Children ranged in age from 6 to 18 years and in degree of developmental disability from moderate to…

Given the expectation of education personnel that parents should be passive participants in the educational planning process and given the historical lack of access to information experienced by many culturally diverse parents, an attempt was made to ascertain the knowledge level of 13 Black parents with handicapped children with regard to…

Public Law 94-142 requires, in part, that an individualized educational program for each handicapped child be prepared in a joint conference involving, at the very least, a parent, a teacher, and an administrator. (PHR)

The article explains the required participation of parents in the education of their handicapped children specified in Public Law 94-142, the reasons for parental involvement, and the need to inform school personnel as well as parents as to their rights and responsibilities under the law. (MF)