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The purpose of this textbook is to assist readers to use better practices when developing educationally meaningful and legally sound IEPs.
List of contents
Introduction
1 A Brief History of Free Appropriate Public Education and Individualized Education Programs
2 The Courts and Free Appropriate Public Education
3 Foundations - IEP Development: Procedural, Substantive, and Implementation Requirements
4 The IEP Process and Components: Ensuring Meaningful Parental Participation and Conducting the IEP Meeting
5 The IEP Process and Components: Conducting Assessments and Crafting Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance
6 The IEP Process and Components: Developing Measurable Annual Goals and Monitoring Student Progress
7 The IEP Process and Components: Developing Special Education Services, Related Services, and Supplementary Aids and Services
8 Determining Placement
Epilogue
About the author
Mitchell L. Yell, PhD, is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and a professor in special education at the University of South Carolina. His professional interests include special education law, IEP development, progress monitoring, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 136 journal articles, 6 textbooks, 36 book chapters, and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. He co-authored the text Developing Educationally Meaningful and Legally Sound IEPs. Dr. Bateman and Dr. Yell are the editors of the Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice series published by Rowman & Littlefield. In 2020, he was awarded the Researcher of the Year from the Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Yell also serves as a State-level due process review officer (SRO) in South Carolina and is on the Board of Directors of the Council for Exceptional Children. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 12 years. David F. Bateman, PhD, is a Principal Researcher at the American Institutes for Research, and Professor Emeritus at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He is a former due process hearing officer for Pennsylvania for hundreds of hearings. He uses his knowledge of litigation relating to special education to assist school districts in providing appropriate supports for students with disabilities and to prevent and to recover from due process hearings. He has been a classroom teacher of students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, intellectual disability, and hearing impairments, and a building administrator. Dr. Bateman earned a PhD in special education from the University of Kansas. Over the past 28 years he has either been a hearing officer or consultant on over 1,005 special education lawsuits. He frequently is a keynote presenter at principal and administrator conferences. He has recently co-authored the following books: A Principal’s Guide to Special Education, A Teacher’s Guide to Special Education, Charting the Course: Special Education in Charter Schools, Special Education Leadership: Building Effective Programming in Schools, Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education, and A School Board Members Guide to Special Education. He has also recently worked as the neutral fact-finder in the class action lawsuit involving the Oregon Department of Education. After the 2017 Supreme Court decision in Endrew F., the U.S. Department of Education reached out to him to develop a training module for administrators on legally compliant IEPs. He is co-author of the special education legal blog:SPEDLAWBLOG.comJAMES G. SHRINER is associate professor in the department of special education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work includes research on the effects of federal and state policies on the educational services provided to students with disabilities. He is the creator and developer of the IEP Quality Project Tutorial, a web-based decision-making support tool for IEP teams (Institute of Education Sciences awards, R324J06002; R324A120081, and Illinois State Board of Education, Part D awards).
