Least Restrictive Enviornment
English Language Learners
Laws related to Special Education
Current issues and trends
SpedEd Acronyms
100
Students receive services outside the class less than 21% of the day
What is general education setting?
100
Focuses on teaching content (social studies, math, science, etc.) with modifications for intermediate language proficiency
What is SDAIE?
100
Federal law passed in 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act
What is P.L. 94-142?
100
Response to Intervention
What is RTI?
100
Free and appropriate education
What is FAPE?
200
Push in or pull out services
What is resource specialist services?
200
An over-extended term that loosely describes a program for educating language minority students in English by teaching solely in English
What is structured English immersion?
200
In 1990, P.L. 94-142 was amended to become the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
What is IDEA?
200
Integrating students with disabilities into the general education classroom
What is Inclusion?
200
Least restrictive enviornment
What is LRE?
300
Separate class where all services are provided
What is special day class?
300
Designed for lower levels of language proficiency where the emphasis is on listening, speaking & early literacy instruction
What is English Language Development?
300
Another landmark federal law in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act
What is ADA?
300
General education teacher and special education teacher teaching together
What is Co-Teaching?
300
Special Day Class
What is SDC?
400
Separate school that the district pays for student to attend
What is non public school?
400
English language development (ELD),Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) and Structured English Immersion
What are the three approaches for teaching ELL students?
400
During the Bush Administration, this was a federal law to improve the academic performance of all students, including those with disabilities
What is NCLB?
400
Designing lessons that are usable by the widest possible potential users
What is UDL?
400
Individualized education program
What is IEP?
500
Separate school where the student resides and receives instruction
What is residential facility/day treatment?
500
A useful tool in helping children at the elementary level who are ELL to learn English more efficiently and improve reading skills
What is classwide peer tutoring?
500
A case involving Amy Rowley where the court decided the school had designed an individual program of special services to meet her needs
What is Hudson vs Rowley?
500
State standards that addresses a mobile student population.
What is CCSS?
500
Individuals with Disabilities Act
What is IDEA?
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