Special Education Law

Catalog description

The purpose of the course is to learn about the legal background of special education from its historical experience through its rapid development in the 1970s and 1980s to its current and future impact. Students will become familiar and conversant in the Pennsylvania and Federal Regulations and Standards, appropriate case law, and how Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 impacts and interacts with special education law and the due process hearing system. Federal statutes governing special education will be reviewed. Offered periodically.