Introduction to Assessment
Introduction to Assessment
Introduction to Assessment
Legal Issues
Legal Issues
100
A process that involves collecting information about a student for the purpose of making decisions.
What is assessment in special education?
100
A disability where a child of typical intelligence has difficulty, over time and to a marked degree, building satisfactory interpersonal relationships; responds inappropriately behaviorally or emotionally under normal circumstances; demonstrates a pervasive mood of unhappiness; or has a tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears.
What is Emotional Disturbance
100
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior.
What is Mental Retardation?
100
In Brown, the Court ruled that it was illegal practice under which amendment of the US Constitution to arbitrarily discriminate against any group of people.
What is 14th Amendment?
100
Under P.L. 94-142 all students in special education must be placed in the this environment.
What is Least restrictive?
200
The processing and understanding of patterns in the child's educational, social, developmental, environmental, medical, and emotional history
What is analysis?
200
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3 years.
What is Autism?
200
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
What is learning disability?
200
This case involved the ideas that schools may not exclude students who have been classified with mental retardation and that all students must be provided with a free public education
What is Parc v. Commonwealth of Pa?
200
The federal law requiring all states to provide a free and appropriate public education to children with disabilities from age 3 to 5 years.
What is 99-457?
300
The assessment of a child's academic, intellectual, psychological, emotional, perceptual, language, cognitive, and medical development in order to determine areas of strength and weakness.
What is evaluation?
300
Written permission from the parent(s).
What must a school obtain before conducting a school evaluation for a suspected disability in order to protect the legal rights of parents and their children?
300
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment or a voice impairment.
What is speech and language disorder?
300
In this California case it was mandated by the Court to correct bias in assessment procedures used with Chinese-American and Mexican students?
What is Diana v. Board of Education?
300
1. All instruments used in the evaluation of a student for determination of a disability should be free from bias. 2. All testing materials and procedures used for the purposes of evaluation and placement of children with disabilities must be selected and administered so as not to be racially or culturally discriminatory. 3. All tests and other evaluation materials have been validated for the specific purpose for which they are used. 4. Tests and other evaluation materials must be administered by trained personnel in conformance with the instructions provided by their producer
What are the requirements that must be adhered to under federal law in order for an evaluation to be considered nondiscriminatory?
400
The final thoughts and ideas concerning educational placement and program that need to be made to the school, teachers and parents.
What is recommendation?
400
1. The school may suspect the presence of a learning or behavior problem and ask the student's parents for permission to evaluate the student individually. 2. The student's classroom teacher may identify that certain symptoms exist within the classroom that seem to indicate the presence of some problem. 3. The student's parents may call or write to the school or to the director of special education and request that their child be evaluated
What are ways in which a child may be identified for testing and assessment?
400
Asthma, epilepsy, lead poisoning and diabetes are examples of disorders which would most likely receive a classification of...
What is Other Health Impaired?
400
1.The exclusion of students with disabilities altogether from school 2.The classification of students with disabilities when, in actuality, no disability was present.
What was the prevalent type of discrimination against those with disabilities in schools prior to 1975 in the United States?
400
This case set forth future guidelines of P.L. 94-142, including the rights of students with disabilities to have access to a free public education, due process protection, and a mandated requirement to receive special education services even if the school states that it does not have the money to provide them.
What is Mills v. Board of Education?
500
1. Parents 2. Teachers 3. Specialists
Who can give valuable information about students skills and needs.
500
1. Screening and identification 2. Evaluation 3. Eligibility and diagnosis 4. IEP development and instructional planning.
What is is the primary purpose of assessment?
500
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functioning disability or psychosocial impairment or both.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
500
Legislation and court cases to prevent discrimination in education first came to notice in 1954 with this famous case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
1. IQ tests actually measure achievement rather than ability. Since African Americans throughout their educational history have been denied equal educational opportunities through schools segregated by race, they will inevitably have achievement scores lower than the norms and thus be discriminated against in testing. 2. IQ tests rest on plausible but unproven assumption that intelligence is distributed in the population in accordance with a normal statistical curve (bell shaped) and thus the tests are artificial tools to rank individuals. 3. IQ tests lead to the classification of more African-American students than white students in dead-end classes for students with mild to moderate disabilities.
In what ways did the court determine that IQ tests were discriminatory against African Americans in Larry P.?
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