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Assistive Technology in Action - Meet Elle

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1. Teaching of people with special educational needs shall, wherever feasible, take place in an inclusive setting with those who do not have similar requirements.
2. Individuals with special educational needs shall have the exact right to avail of and aid from proper education, as do their peers who do not match their needs
3. Help kids with unique educational requirements to exit school with the skills required to participate to the level of their ability inclusively in the social and economic movements of civilisation and to live self-reliant and fulfilled lives
4. Provide for the more significant involvement of parents of kids with special educational needs in the schooling of their kids

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EPSEN Act 2004 full document.

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EDUCATION FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS ACT 2004

SCHEDULE 1

Membership and Meetings of Council

SCHEDULE 2

The Chief Executive Officer

Acts referred to

Companies Acts 1963 to 2001

EDUCATION FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS ACT 2004

"education plan" shall be construed in accordance with section 3 or 8, as appropriate;

( a) a health board established under section 4 of the Health Act 1970 ,

"team" shall be construed in accordance with section 8 ,9 or 11 as appropriate;

(4) Without prejudice to section 5 (5), an assessment referred to in subsection (3) shall be-

(6) Where the principal of a school is of the opinion, having regard to any guidelines that may be issued by the Council from time to time under subsection (8), that the arrangement of an assessment under subsection (3) of a student is not practicable he or she shall request the Council to arrange for an assessment of the student under section 4.

(7) If the Council accedes to a request under subsection (6), section 4, with the necessary modifications, and section 5 shall apply accordingly.

( a) having regard to the nature and extent of a child's special educational needs as established by an assessment under this section, the preparation of an education plan under subsection (5) in accordance with the guidelines for the time being in force under section 9 (3) will not meet the child's special educational needs, or

( b) whether the opinion is formed in consequence of a review under section 11 or otherwise, an education plan prepared under subsection (5) in respect of a child is not meeting those needs of the child and the taking of any steps by a special educational needs organiser under section 11 on foot of any report by the principal under subsection (3) of that section is unlikely to result in those needs being met,

(12) If the Council accedes to a request under subsection (11), then subsections (3) to (5) of section 8 shall apply and, in the case of paragraph (b) of subsection (11), the education plan prepared by the Council under section 8 shall supersede the education plan referred to in that paragraph.

Mode of assessment under section 3 or 4.

5.-(1) An assessment under section 4 shall be carried out with the assistance of persons possessing such expertise and qualifications as the health board or the Council considers appropriate; those persons may, in the discretion of the board or the Council, include one or more of the following:

(2) A health board, the Council or a principal, as appropriate, shall facilitate, in a manner that is consistent with the assessment being carried out effectively, the participation by the parents of the child concerned in the carrying out of an assessment under section 3 or 4.

(3) Before causing an assessment under section 4 (other than pursuant to a request under subsection (3) of that section) to be carried out, the health board or the Council shall give notice in writing to the parents of the child of the intention to do so and the reasons therefor and, subject to subsection (4), shall not cause the assessment to be carried out without the consent in writing of the parents.

(4) Where the parent of a child fails or refuses to give his or her consent, within such period as may be specified by the health board or the Council, to the carrying out of an assessment under section 4 to which subsection (3) applies, the health board or the Council, as the case may be, may apply to the Circuit Court for an order dispensing with the requirement under subsection (3) for the parent's consent and the Circuit Court may, on the hearing of the application, make such an order if it considers it in the best interests of the child to do so.

(5) An assessment under section 3 or 4 shall be carried out in a manner which conforms to such standards as may from time to time be determined, after consultation with the Minister, by a prescribed body, that is to say, a body standing prescribed by regulations made by the Minister for Health and Children for the purposes of its determining the standards that assessments under those sections must conform to.

6.-(1) Parents may, in respect of their child, appeal to the Appeals Board against an assessment made under section 3 or 4 in relation to the child on the ground that it was not carried out in a manner which conforms with the standards determined under section 5 (5).

( a) allow the appeal and give such direction as it considers appropriate to the principal, the health board or the Council, as appropriate, (which may include a direction requiring a fresh assessment under section 3 or 4 to be carried out in relation to the child), or

7.-(1) In the case of a child who is not a student, the relevant health board shall, subject to subsection (2), provide to the child such of the services identified in the assessment carried out under section 4 in relation to the child as are necessary to enable him or her to participate in and benefit from education.

( a) an appeal against an assessment under section 6 or an appeal under section 12 in relation to an education plan is made, or

8.-(1) The Council upon being informed by a health board or the principal of a relevant school that a child has special educational needs, shall, unless an education plan has been or is being prepared under section 3 in respect of the child, direct the relevant special educational needs organiser to cause to be prepared a plan for the appropriate education of the child (in this Act also referred to as an "education plan").

9.-(1) An education plan under section 3 or 8 shall be in such form as the Council may determine from time to time and specify in a notice published, in such manner as it thinks fit, for the purposes of this subsection.

(2) The matters to be specified in an education plan under section 3 or 8 shall include-

(3) The Council may prepare guidelines with respect to the matters to be provided in an education plan prepared under section 3 by reference to the category of special educational need (being a category of such need specified in the guidelines for the purpose) that is relevant to the child concerned and, in particular, by reference to that category, with respect to the matters specified in paragraph (e), (g) and (h) of subsection (2).

(8) If the subject of an appeal under subsection (6) is whether a particular school specified in a request of parents should be designated, the Appeals Board shall cause the board of management of that school to be made a notice party to the appeal and that board shall have the right to make submissions to the Appeals Board in relation to the matter (and subsection (5) shall apply for this purpose as it applies for the purposes of an appeal under subsection (3)); for the purposes of such an appeal the Appeals Board shall require the Council to indicate whether it would, if it were to designate the particular school concerned, make a recommendation of the kind referred to in subsection (2) and if it indicates that it would make such a recommendation, to specify the nature of it.

( a) allow the appeal and give a direction to the principal requiring him or her to review or cause to be reviewed the education plan (and such a review shall be regarded as a review under subsection (1), and subsection (2) shall apply accordingly), or

22.-(1) There shall be, for the purpose mentioned in subsection (2), a consultative forum, that is to say, a group of persons who shall be appointed in accordance with subsections (3) and (5) and who, as a collective body, are referred to subsequently in this section and in section 23 as the "consultative forum".

( a) specify a date for the commencement of each of the provisions of this Act (other than sections 19 to 21),

27.-The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment shall consult with the Council prior to advising the Minister under section 41 (2)( f) of the Education Act 1998 .

( d) any matter affecting the Council referred to in a special report of the Comptroller and Auditor General under section 11 (2) of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 or in any other report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (in so far as it relates to a matter specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c)) that is laid before Dáil Éireann.

35.-The Minister shall within one year from the passing of this Act by order or orders appoint a day to be the establishment day for the purposes of sections 19 and 36 and the day that is so appointed for the purposes of one of those sections may be different to that which is so appointed for the other of them.

( e) such provisions consequential on, or incidental to, the foregoing provisions or the provisions of subsection (3) or (4) as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.

40.- Section 7 of the Education Act 1998 is amended by inserting the following subsections after subsection (4):

SCHEDULE 1

Membership and Meetings of Council

Section 19 .

SCHEDULE 2

The Chief Executive Officer

Section 24 .

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Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004

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EDUCATION FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS ACT 2004 SCHEDULE 1 Membership and Meetings of Council SCHEDULE 2 The Chief Executive Officer Acts referred to Companies Acts 1963 to 2001 EDUCATION FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS ACT 2004 "education plan" shall be construed in accordance with section 3 or

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IEP | How to Write An IEP | That Special Educator

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IEP in Physical Education

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