History, Legal Issues, and Support Systems in Special Education

History, Legal Issues, and Support Systems in Special Education

Special Ed License | This program is completed

- Online, VT - United States

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Graduate

5/8/2022-6/11/2022

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$1,695.00

This course examines the legal and ethical issues embedded in the provision of special education services to individuals with disabilities and their families. The course addresses the historical treatment of people with disabilities from a service delivery model perspective. Significant legislation and court decisions will be addressed along with current special education legal requirements and local, state, and community issues impacting services. Specific attention will be given to ways in which disability may be viewed as a form of diversity. Additionally, important frameworks and concepts including social construction of disability, self-determination, inclusion, collaboration with diverse families and person-centered planning will be explored in-depth. Specifically this course will address the following themes: - Current issues in the fields of general education and special education including ethical and legal requirements of the six major principles of the IDEA. - Role, including all legal responsibilities, of the special education case manager when working with students with disabilities in a public school. - Legal procedures governing referral, evaluation, eligibility determination, program planning, related services and the continuum of placements for students with disabilities. - Federal and state regulations promoting involvement, participation and support of the student, family and classroom teacher in the special education process, including inter-agency relationships. - Goals of VT’s Act 117 and Act 173 and the role of special education and Section 504 in the Educational Support System of the public school. - Cultural and ethical issues surrounding a student with disabilities within the family and community environments, including the concepts of self-determination and self-advocacy. This course is fully online, with some synchronous virtual meetings. Click View Schedule above for dates and times.

  • The 3 graduate credits come from Castleton State University.
Lundeen, Mary

Mary Lundeen, M.Ed. is the Director of Special Services for the Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District. She is an active member of the Vermont Council of Special Education Administrators (VCSEA) where she is currently serving as the President. Mary is the chair of the VCSEA Legislative Committee, and also serves as a member of the Vermont Special Education Advisory Panel. Before joining the Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District, Mary served 7 years in the Montpelier Roxbury School District as Director of Student Support Services, and 16 years in the Winooski School District as a special educator, Director of Special Education and ELL, Associate Superintendent and Superintendent. Mary began her career in education as a special education teacher in a therapeutic day school in Nashua, New Hampshire. She taught in a self-contained program for middle school students identified with emotional disabilities. Mary has been an adjunct instructor in the Graduate Program for School Leadership at Saint Michael's College where she taught Special Education Leadership and Consultation and Collaboration in Schools. Mary is a graduate of Trinity College of Vermont with a Bachelor's Degree in early and elementary education. She holds a Master's Degree in Education in Reading from Rivier University in Nashua, NH. Mary furthered her education at the University of Vermont and Saint Michael's College in the areas of special education and school leadership. Mary is passionate about Universal Design for Learning as a framework to create inclusive learning environments where all students will learn at high levels.