Discussion 1 - Identify legislation and litigation that have affected

Discussion Post #1

Identify legislation and litigation that have affected special education? What has been the impact of legislation and litigation on special education?

When you respond to a peer, please use one of the following formats:

• Validate the post by sharing your experience and stating how it relates to the course material or to the initial post.
• Agree or disagree with the post and explain why you agree or disagree.
• Expand on your classmate's post to demonstrate that you understand the topic.
• Reply to a question posed by one of your classmates or by the instructor and support your statements with sources from the text.
• Critically evaluate the post and make a suggestion or respectfully point out an area of the assignment that was not addressed.
• Ask a probing question or ask your classmate for a clarification or an explanation of a point made in the post.
• Share an insight or something you learned from reading your peer's posting or from your other reading.
• Explain how someone's post helped you understand the material or made you rethink your own views.
• Offer an opinion and support it with examples from the text.
• Relate the information in the post to your course assignments and/or research projects.
• Challenge a statement in the post. If you would not let a statement go unchallenged in a classroom discussion, do not let it go unchallenged on the discussion board.
• Tie ideas together: Discuss how comments other students made relate to your peer's post.

MOST IMPORTANTLY - Make sure you cite your sources for all references and for any other ideas that are not your own using APA 7 (Links to an external site.) format.