What role have courts played in the implementation of special education programs? Why are courts uniquely suited for this role?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer should include: Courts are tasked with interpreting the law and providing recourse to those whose rights have been violated; the Civil Rights movement set a precedent of using the courts to establish educational rights (such as in Brown v. Board of Education); courts have repeatedly upheld the right of students with exceptionalities to have a free and appropriate public education - what that FAPE looks like has been the subject of further rulings; courts have also repeatedly upheld the rights of parents to be involved in their child's access to a FAPE including participation in the IEP process

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a) Equalizing. b) Iterating. c) Partitioning. d) Sectioning.

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A principle of behavior describes a(n) _______________ _____________ between behavior and one or more of its controlling variables

a. Extinction curve b. Response reinforcer c. Functional relation d. Stimulus relation

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. A researcher is interested in testing for sex (male, female) differences in attention to a sex-specific task. What type of variable is sex in this example?

What will be an ideal response?

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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