Students with Prader-Willi Syndrome: Case Law under the IDEA

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Perry A. Zirkel

Abstract

Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is one of the low-incidence physical disabilities that the literature has not addressed in relation to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and its case law applications.  To help fill the gap, this relatively brief article provides (a) an introduction of PWS from legal sources; (b) an overview of the IDEA, including and its primary components and alternate decisional avenues; (c) a synthesis of the case law to date, which amounts to a limited variety of administrative and judical decisions; and (d) a brief set of conclusions from an impartial legal perspective.

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Zirkel, P. A. (2017). Students with Prader-Willi Syndrome: Case Law under the IDEA. Research, Advocacy, and Practice for Complex and Chronic Conditions, 36(2), 35–44. https://doi.org/10.14434/pders.v36i2.24267
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Advocacy and Policy
Author Biography

Perry A. Zirkel, Lehigh University

Perry A. Zirkel is university professor emeritus of education and law at Lehigh University, where he formerly was dean of the College of Education and more recently held the Iacocca Chair in Education for its five-year term.  He has a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut, and a Master of Laws degree from Yale University.  He has written more than 1,500 publications on various aspects of school law, with an emphasis on legal issues in special education