SPE-226 | Foundations for Understanding Special Education: Defining Special Education and the Impact of Cultural Diversity on Special Education
Attitude, Legislation, and Litigation
Write an essay of 1,000-1,250 words in which you address the social implications of attitude, legislation, and litigation on the lives of students with disabilities. Include the following components in your essay:

Explain how thinking has changed regarding the understanding of students with disabilities. How has legislation and litigation influenced the education of students with disabilities?
There are many challenges facing educators, which include increasingly higher standards and teacher accountability for student performance. What do you predict will happen to students with disabilities in the current educational climate and special education in the future?
What was your initial response during your first personal encounter with an individual with a disability? Based on your current knowledge and experiences, how would your response be different now?
Please follow Ruric
Comprehensively explains changes in perception regarding disabled students; the influence of legislation and litigation; predicted outcomes for disabled students because of teacher accountability i.e., higher standards; and reflections on first personal encounter with disabled student.
Content is comprehensive, accurate, and persuasive; definitions are clearly stated. Major points are stated clearly and are well-supported. Research is adequate, timely, relevant, and addresses all of the issues stated in the assignment’s criteria. Three or more relevant academic sources are cited.
Thesis and/or main claim are comprehensive; contained within the thesis is the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
There is a sophisticated construction of paragraphs and transitions. Ideas progress and relate to each other. Paragraph and transition construction guide the reader. Paragraph structure is seamless
Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
All format elements are correct.
In-text citations and a reference page are complete. The documentation of cited sources is error-free .