Inclusion
Laws Affecting Special Education
Special Education Identification Process
Classifications
Differentiating Instruction
100
This is an educational philosophy for structuring schools so that all students are educated together in general education classrooms.
What is Inclusion?
100
This 2001 ruling states schools should restructure and coordinate their efforts and programs in order to help all students-including those with disabilities- to have access to and succeed in general education curriculum to meet specific learning standards.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
100
This group is composed of professionals and family members, with the student when appropriate, and will make important decisions concerning the education of the student.
What is the Multidisciplinary Team?
100
This is a psychiatric condition that is characterized by difficulty identifying and maintaining attention to relevant classroom directions, information, and stimuli that affects school performance.
What is Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
100
This a method which refers to giving students the opportunity to read or listen to a selection prior to reading.
What is Previewing?
200
This is a partial or full-time program that educates students with disabilities with their general education peers.
What is Mainstreaming?
200
This law passed in 1997 mandates all students with disabilities should be provided a free and appropriate education regardless of the nature or severity of their disability.
What is Education For All Handicapped Children Act?
200
This problem-solving process uses a team of educators to assist teachers in addressing the challenges an individual student displays prior to considering the student for placement in a special education program.
What is the Prereferral System?
200
This is a condition where students display: inability to learn which cannot be explained, inability to build or maintain good relations with peers and teachers, inappropriate behaviors or feelings, pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression, and a tendency to be afraid or problems.
What is Emotional and Behavioral Disorders?
200
This approach uses students' natural language and experiences in and out of school to immerse them in a supportive and natural learning environment that will promote their literacy.
What is the Whole Language Approach?
300
This is an individually based principle that calls for schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
300
This Rehabilitation Act works as a civil rights law for individuals with disabilities and forbids institutions receiving federal funds from discriminating against individuals with disabilities in education, employment, housing, and access to public programs and facilities.
What is a Section 504?
300
This process of identifying students with learning disabilities determines whether there is a significant gap in a students' learning potential and academic achievement.
What is the IQ-Achievement Discrepancy Model?
300
This is a condition caused by damage to the central nervous system occurring before birth or in a child's early years which affects voluntary motor functions and muscle tension and tone.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
300
This diagram or map is used to display or explain key ideas and words that make up the topic being discussed or learned.
What is a Semantic Map?
400
This is a process for structuring society so that the opportunities, social interactions, and experiences of individuals with disabilities parallel those of adults and children without disabilities
What is Normalization?
400
This act is designed to integrate individuals with disabilities into the social and economic mainstream of society.
What is Americans With Disabilities Act?
400
This is a set of coordinated activities used to improve students' academic and functional achievement and to address postsecondary goals in the areas of training, education, employment, community participation, and, where appropriate, independent living skills.
What is Transition Services?
400
This is a condition marked by significant difficulties in verbal and nonverbal communication, socialization, and behavior that typically occurs at birth or within the first 3 years of life.
What is Autism?
400
These are used to present the same content as the on-grade textbook but at a lower readability level.
What are Adapted Textbooks?
500
This is the movement of individuals with special needs from institutional settings to community-based settings.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
500
This written and individualized program lists the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique strengths and challenges.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
500
This refers to the presence of students from a specific group in an educational program as being lower than one would expect based on their representation in the general population of students.
What is Underrepresentation?
500
This is an inherited neurological condition which includes involuntary multiple muscle movements and tics and uncontrolled, repeated verbal responses, such as noises (laughing, coughing, throat clearing, and blinking), words, or phrases.
What is Tourette Syndrome?
500
This technique is used for breaking down comments that students do not understand or a task students find too difficult and breaking it into smaller components that promote a better understanding. These methods also relate to using various methods, strategies, and other cues.
What is Scaffolding?
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