Grouping
Special Education
Disabilities
IDEA
Miscellaneous
100
Assigning students of similar learning ability to separate classes based on scores from standardized intelligence or achievement tests.
What is between-class ability grouping?
100
A student who shows unusual ability in any of a variety of ways and who may require services not ordinarily provided by his school
What is gifted and talented?
100
A disorder that begins in childhood; is marked by abnormally high levels of impulsive behavior, distractibility, and motor activity; and leads to low levels of learning.
What is ADHD?
100
This must occur before a child can receive or be assigned to received special education services.
What is a pre-placement evaluation?
100
This plan applies to students who are not identified under IDEA but who may have a condition that requires some accommodation in order to provided access to and participation in learning opportunities.
What is a 504 plan?
200
A form of ability grouping that involves the division of a single class of students into two or three groups for reading and math instruction.
What is within-class ability grouping?
200
The practice of eliminating pullout programs (those outside the classroom) and providing regular teachers with special training so as to keep special needs students in regular classrooms.
What is full inclusion?
200
An emotional condition in which inappropriate aggressive or withdrawal behaviors are exhibited over a long period of time and to a marked degree, adversely affecting a child’s educational performance.
What is emotional disturbance?
200
A requirement (under the 1994 Code of Federal Regulations governing the implementation of IDEA) that disabled children be provided with education in the least restrictive setting possible, usually by including them in regular classrooms.
What is Least Restrictive environment (LRE)?
200
This disability is a disorder of one or more of the psychological processes, not due primarily to other causes such as visual or hearing impairments, motor disabilities, intellectual disability, emotional disturbance, or economic, environmental, or cultural disadvantage.
What is learning disability?
300
An ability grouping technique that combines students of different grade levels according to their standardized test scores.
What is Joplin Plan?
300
An extension of the least restrictive environment provision of IDEA in which students with disabilities are placed in regular classrooms for the entire school day and receive some instruction and support from a special education teacher.
What is inclusion?
300
Problems in otherwise mentally fit students who are unable to respond to certain aspects of the curriculum presented in regular classrooms because of disorders in one or more basic psychological processes.
What is learning disabilities?
300
A written statement that describes the educational program that has been designed to meet the needs of a child with an identified disability.
What is Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
300
A condition in which inappropriate aggressive or withdrawal behaviors are exhibited over a long period of time.
What is emotional disturbance (or behavior disorder)?
400
Students of the same age, ability, and grade from different classrooms come together for instruction in a specific subject.
What is regrouping?
400
A written statement describing an educational program designed to meet the unique needs of a child with a particular disability.
What is Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
400
Defined by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as “a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills. This disability originates before the age of 18.”
What is intellectual disability?
400
Under IDEA, the general education teacher is required to do these three things.
What is referral, assessment, and follow through on the IEP?
400
A student who is identified as Gifted and Talented and also has a learning disability, attention disorder, or autism spectrum disorder is said to be this.
What is twice exceptional?
500
This is one group of students are over-represented in lower track classes.
What is... (students of color, low SES, or limited English)?
500
This category of disability applies only to children ages 3 through 9 and is optional for state programs.
What is developmental delay?
500
An emotional condition in which inappropriate aggressive or withdrawal behaviors are exhibited over a long period of time and to a marked degree, adversely affecting a child’s educational performance. Also called emotional disturbance
What is behavior disorder?
500
This provision of IDEA ensures that all individuals from birth - age 21 who have an identifiable disability receive at public expense supervised special education and related services that meet their specific educational needs.
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
500
One of three possible ways to meet the instructional needs of a Gifted and Talented student.
What is...(Accelerated instruction, separate GT class or school, enrichment or differentiated instruction)?
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