Initialisms & Acronyms
ELL
What is an English Language Learner?
Judy's "Rosa Parks moment" for which she was arrested (but released when she showed her Senate ID card) occurred on this mode of transportation.
What is an airplane?
Language that reflects the belief in the dignity and potential of all people, e.g. child with autism or person with dyslexia.
What is person-first language?
Landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that declared separate but equal in schools unconstitutional, thus paving the way for other types of legislation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Characteristics of this disability include stereotyped behaviors, resistance to change, and difficulties with social interaction.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
IEP
What is an Individualized Education Program?
24 days in 1973 at HEW.
What is the 504 sit-in / protest.
This learning disability involves difficulty reading fluently and accurately.
What is dyslexia?
A law designed to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in PUBLIC programs that receive federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education.
What is Section 504?
The name of the curriculum for students with intellectual disabilities that includes things like following a recipe, filling out a job application, or grocery shopping.
What is/are Life Skills?
ENL
What is English as a New Language?
Young Judy and others with physical disabilities were denied the right to attend school on these "hot" grounds.
What is fire hazard?
The over- or under-representation of culturally and linguistically diverse children in special education is referred to by this name.
What is disproportionality?
Previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, this piece of 1990 legislation ensures that students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education that is tailored to their individual needs.
What is IDEA?
The triangular, three-tiered model that shows increasing levels of support for struggling students.
What is RTI, or Response to Intervention?
LRE
What is the least-restrictive environment?
The New York City B.O.E. medical examiner's absurd and inappropriate request of Judy to prove that she's able to teach children.
What is: how she uses the bathroom.
Fragile X and PKU are examples of this.
What is an intellectual disability?
In 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed this civil rights law that prohibits disability discrimination in the PRIVATE sector (e.g. businesses).
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
A person with ASD repeats someone else's words or phrases precisely and without apparent reason.
What is echolalia?
FAPE
What is a free appropriate public education?
This President shut down the ADA pages on the White House website and appointed a Secretary of Education who was unfamiliar with IDEA.
Who is President Donald Trump?
The name for the total number of individuals with a particular disability existing in the population at a given time.
What is prevalence?
This 2010 law was signed by President Barack Obama and spearheaded by a young girl's family to replace the term "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability."
What is Rosa's Law?
The study of the practice of teaching; the word originally stems from the name for enslaved people who walked kids to school.
What is pedagogy?