Service Delivery
What is for the student to fly the plane?
What legal precedent ensures that instruction, assessment, and necessary transportation are all provided to students at no cost to the family?
This multi-step process is necessary to get to referral and evaluation. It can be both informal and formal.
What is the Pre-referral Process?
This part of the IEP considers current academic progress, classroom performance, and recent assessment results.
The ABC method of behavior analysis.
What is Antecedent / Behavior / Consequence ?
There are 4 areas of differentiation: Process, Product, Environmental, and _______
What is Content Differentiation?
This is "required to assist a child with a disability to benefit from special education." An example would be transportation, speech pathology, or physical therapy.
What is a Related Service?
This 3 tier framework conducts evaluation and interventions at the same time.
What is RTI / MTSS, or Response to Intervention / Multi-Tiered System of Support
Extended time on tests and assignments, preferential seating, and frequent checks for understanding are all considered to be these.
What are Accommodations?
This schoolwide system encourages pro-social behaviors.
What is Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports? (PBIS)
This educational framework ensures that everyone has access to learning. It allows multiple ways for materials to be presented and for students to demonstrate their understanding.
What is UDL (Universal Design for Learning)?
This law (PL-93-380) protects the privacy of student education records.
What is FERPA or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
Once parents sign consent for an evaluation, the school district has this many days to complete the assessments.
What is 60 days?
Who is the General Education Teacher?
When making a student tracking sheet to monitor behavior, be sure to include these for useful data at the next IEP meeting.
What are the student's behavioral IEP goals?
The most important element needed for co-teaching lessons with the special education teacher.
What is time for collaboration?
An IEP and a 504 plan both provide accommodations in the classroom. The IEP also ensures this kind of instruction.
What is specially designed instruction (SDI)?
A student may qualify for a disability, but does not need special education services unless they also have this.
What is a need for specially designed instruction?
This changes the nature of what a student is taught is expected to learn in comparison with non-disabled peers.
What is a Modification?
When a student with a disability commits a serious behavioral infraction and could receive discipline, this meeting determines if the behavior was a function of the disability.
What is a Manifestation Determination meeting?
This person works with the IEP team to meet goals in OT and help students participate in physical education class.
What is the APE (Assisted PE Teacher)?
This principle ensures that students are educated as closely as possible to their general education peers.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
Looking at data with a parent, you discover that most of the assessment standard scores are within one standard deviation. These numbers should be considered in the typical range.
What are Standard scores in between 80 and 120?
This meeting happens every 3 years for most students with disabilities.
Specific Learning Disability is the most common disability type in special education with 33% of the total SPED population. This group is the second most common.