In this activity, you will assess the laws that directly affect the way services are delivered to school-age children with language disorders.

Step 1: Research whether there are any laws in your region that directly affect the way services are delivered to school-age children with language disorders. 

Step 2: If there are, identify how the laws affect the way services are delivered to school-age children with language disorders in your region. If not, think about the laws that might be helpful for your community, state, and/or region.

Step 3: Write a 100-300 word summary describing the laws and the services that they provide to school-age children with language disorders or laws that you think might be helpful for your community, state, and/or region. Connect the existing laws or laws you think would be helpful to IDEA Part B and Part C to help support your claim. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. See the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library for instructions: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

Step 4: To share your work, click on the button at the bottom of the screen labeled “Add a new discussion topic” and include the title "Discussion Post: IDEA Laws" in the subject line.  

OPTIONAL Step 6: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”