A is for Apple
A mnemonic devise that triggers recall by employing a sentence based on the first letter of the words to be memorized.
What is an acrostic?
A phenomenon commonly observed in individuals learning a second language that is characterized by using words, phrases, expressions, and sentences from one language while speaking another language.
What is Code Switching?
Partial or full-time programs that educate students with disabilities with their general education peers.
What is Mainstreaming?
A type of cooperative learning arrangement where one student tutors and assists another in learning a new skill.
What is Peer tutoring?
The ability to identify and express preferences, strengths, and challenges.
What is Self-awareness?
An item, piece of equipment, or product system - whether bought, modified, or customized - that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
What is Assistive Technology device?
A condition present at birth.
What is Congenital Condition?
A person-centered planning strategy used to develop IEPs and inclusion plans.
What is Map Action Planning System (MAPS)?
The processing and manipulation of the different sounds that make up words and the understanding that spoken and written language are linked.
What is Phonemic awareness?
An individual's sense of self-efficacy.
What is Self-esteem?
A respiratory ailment causing difficulty in breathing due to constriction and inflammation of the airways.
What is Asthma?
The events, stimuli, objects, actions, and activities that follow and maintain the behavior.
What is Consequences?
A curricular accommodation where students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty.
What is Multilevel teaching?
Short books that use pictures and illustrations to enhance the reader's understanding of the meaning and content of the story.
What is Picture Book?
A natural language technique that consists of talking out loud about your actions, experiences, or feelings.
What is self-talk?
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)?
A testing system that involves students working collaboratively on open-ended tasks that have non-routine solutions.
What is Cooperative Group Testing?
A process whereby families and school districts meet to attempt to resolve differences regarding the education of students with disabilities.
What is Mediation?
Actions or stimuli that increase the probability of a repeated behavior.
What is Positive reinforcers?
A diagram or map of the key ideas and words that make up the topic.
What is Semantic map?
The events, stimuli, objects, actions and activities that precede and trigger the behavior.
What is Antecedents?
Grading systems that involve reporting on students' mastery within the curriculum.
What is Criterion-referenced grading systems?
A term used to describe students with chronic and progressive conditions which require the use of specialized technological health care procedures to maintain their health and/or provide life support.
What is Medically fragile?
What is Premack's principle?
A school solely for students with special needs.
What is Special Day School?