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Exceptional Children is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of special education.The editors-in-chief are Kathleen King Thorius (Indiana University), Endia J. Lindo (Texas Christian University), Patricia Martínez-Álvarez (Teachers College, Columbia University), Amanda L. Sullivan (University of Minnesota).
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004) is a United States law that mandates equity, accountability, and excellence in education for children with disabilities. As of 2018, approximately seven million students enrolled in U.S. schools receive special education services due to a disability.
Special education in the United States enables students with exceptional learning needs to access resources through special education programs. "The idea of excluding students with any disability from public school education can be traced back to 1893, when the Massachusetts Supreme Court expelled a student merely due to poor academic ability". [1]
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Young Exceptional Children is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of special education. The editor-in-chief is Rosa Milagros Santos (University of Illinois). It was established in 1997 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional ...
Teaching Exceptional Children (styled TEACHING Exceptional Children) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of special education. The editor-in-chief is Dawn A Rowe (East Tennessee State University). It was established in 1968 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Council for Exceptional Children.
Twice-exceptional, or 2e, is a term used to describe children who are gifted or highly intelligent, but also show signs of having a learning disability or other neurodivergent condition.
The free and appropriate public education proffered in an IEP need not be the best one that money can buy, [44] nor one that maximizes the child's educational potential. [43] Rather, it need only be an education that specifically meets a child's unique needs, supported by services that permit the child to benefit from the instruction. [43]