Exceptional Children
Physical attributes and/or learning characteristics that differ from the norm (below or above), in which they need an individualized program of special education
What is exceptional children?
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
IEP - Developed to meet unique needs of each student with a disability
What is individual educational program?
A range of placement and instructional options for children with disabilities
What is continuum of alternative placement?
An individual that helps school personnel and family members from a diverse culture communicate effectively
What is cultural interpreter?
What is impairment?
FAPE - All children with a disability have a right to this
What is free appropriate public education?
LRE - Educational setting that most closely resembles a regular school program and also meets the child's special educational needs
What is least restrictive environment?
When a particular group receives special education at a rate significantly higher or lower than would be expected based on the proportion of general student population that group represents students
What is disproportionate representation?
A two-way process between professionals and families of information sharing, understanding, and respecting how their differing values and belief systems may influence perspectives, wishes, and decisions
What is cultural reciprocity?
When an impairment limits a person's ability to perform certain tasks (walk, read, see, etc.)
What is disability?
NCLB - Improves the achievement of all students, emphasizing children from low-income families
What is No Child Left Behind Act?
Educating students with disabilities in general education classrooms
What is Inclusion?
MFE - Assessment and evaluation of a child with a variety of test instruments and observation procedures
What is multifactored evaluation?
Families' strengths, resources, and insights on which teachers should capitalize in order to be most effective
What is funds of knowledge?
Refers to a problem or disadvantage a person with a disability or impairment encounters when interacting with the environment
What is Handicap?
ADA - Civil right protection of people with disabilities to provide sector employment, public services, transportation, and telecommunications
What is Americans with Disabilities?
Knowledge and skills that some students with disabilities must be taught to achieve as much success and independence as they can in school, home, community, and employment settings
What is functional curriculum?
Individualized intervention for a student experiencing academic or behavior difficulties in the general education classroom before referring the student for formal testing evaluation for special education eligibility
What is prereferral intervention?
The temporary care of an individual with disabilities by non-family members; provides much needed support for many families of children with severe disabilities
What is respite care?
Children who are considered to have a greater than usual chance of developing a disability
What is "at risk"?
"No otherwise qualified handicapped individual shall... solely by reason of their handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance"
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
School seeks a change of placement, suspension, or expulsion, in excess 10 days, the IEP team and other qualified personnel must review the relationship between the students misconduct and their disability
What is manifestation determination?
RTI - A systematic prereferral and early intervention process that consists of universal screening and several tiers of increasingly intensive trails of research-based interventions before referral for assessment for special education eligibility
What is response to intervention?
Four steps to conducting a parent-teacher conference
1. Build rapport
2. Obtain information
3. Provide information
4. Summarize and follow up