IDEA Rules on Discipline -- offers an interactive approach to understanding key changes to disciplining students with disabilities under IDEA '04, which changed many of the discipline rules that districts struggled with in the past. This course helps you understand what it takes to discipline students in a manner that meets the legal requirements and promotes the safety of all students and school personnel. You receive a side-by-side comparison of changes to the law including an explanation of the proposed intent, as well as additions and omissions of aspects related to discipline. This course also includes video clips from Discipline for Students with Disabilities: New Ways to Respond to Misbehavior in School and in the Classroom.

Chapters include:

1. Short-Term & Long-Term Removals
2. Manifestation Determinations
3. FBAs & BIPs
4. Appropriate Discipline

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• State and demonstrate your responsibilities for appropriately disciplining students with disabilities.
• Explain to parents and staff about functional behavioral assessments, behavioral intervention plans, removals and the process of manifestation determinations.
• Recognize the differences between short-term and long-term removals.
• Identify and recommend changes that need to be addressed in your current discipline procedures.
• Complete chapter and course assessments with 100 percent accuracy.