Disability Categories
Core symptoms of this disability are social communication challenges and atypical responses, and/or repetitive behaviors.
IDEA is an acronym that stands for these words.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act?
A system for determining which students need extra support, providing this support and continually re-assessing to determine if student's are making progress.
What is RTI (Response to Intervention)
The general education teacher has responsibility to be aware of this document for each special education student in their classroom.
What is the IEP?
A type of calming activity that is helpful to all struggling students, both those in any disability category and those with no disability that might include using a weighted blanket, holding an ice cube, and smelling an orange.
What is an Accommodation?
Many students struggle in school for many reasons. When students act out, we don't always know why and often 'symptoms' are common for students with disabilities as well as for students who struggle for other reasons. For this reason, we must never jump to conclusions about why a student is struggling and instead must always rely on factual information called:
What is data?
When a student experiences this type of difficulty in their life outside of school such as homelessness, or lack of food or even abuse, this can lead them to exhibit symptoms that may inhibit them from learning, even if they do not have a diagnosable disability.
What are ACES (Adverse Childhood ExperienceS)?
This disability category is listed in Part B of IDEA because it only applies to children aged 3 – 9.
What is Developmental Delay?
A level of support in which students receive extra support several times a week in small groups.
Tier 2 Instruction
Who is an Advocate?
A disability category that should be diagnosed with a combination of psycho-educational evaluation AND a failure to respond to RTI Tier 2 instruction.
What is SLD (Specific Learning Disability)?
The IDEA requirement that all special education students receive their education in an environment that is as similar to their peers as possible.
What is LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)?
What is MTSS (Multi-Tiered Support System)
Who is a Strengths-Based teacher?
A set of skills that are often exhibited by students with AD(H)D and include difficulties in paying attention, organizing, planning, and prioritizing, starting tasks and staying focused on them to completion, understanding different points of view, regulating emotions, and self-monitoring (keeping track of what you’re doing).
What are Executive Functioning Skills?
The IDEA requirement that states that ALL students must have access to public education that helps them reach their academic potential.
What is FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education)?
The name of the place in the IEP where services that are delivered to a special education student inside the general education classroom.
Service Delivery Grid, Part B
There are many reasons that a student might struggle in school. This is why it is helpful to design lessons that provide multiple ways presenting information to students, multiple ways that students can show the teacher what they have learned, and multiple ways of motivating students. When you use this. method of designing lessons, more students will succeed in your class.
What is UDL (Universal Design for Learning)?