Webinar | Disciplining students with disabilities: Uncommonly serious errors made by teachers and administrators
Recorded On: 04/29/2026
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Join Mitch Yell, PhD in his presentation, Disciplining students with disabilities: Uncommonly serious errors made by teachers and administrators. School administrators and teachers respond to disruptive or challenging behavior in a variety of ways. Although the US Supreme Court has held that the US Constitution provides protections for all students, students with disabilities have additional protections under IDEA and Section 504. The purpose of this presentation is to identify these few additional protections and to show that using discipline with students with disabilities is not as difficult as many believe.
Dr. Mitchell Yell
Professor in Special Education
University of South Carolina
Mitchell L. Yell, Ph.D., is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and a Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Minnesota. His professional interests include special education law, IEP development, progress monitoring, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 132 journal articles, 6 textbooks, 36 book chapters, and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. He also had been awarded almost $16 million in grants. Dr. Yell also serves as a State-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 14 years.