RTI
IEP
IDEA Disability Categories
Culture & Language
Communication & Social Skills
100

An intervention to keep learning difficulties from developing.

What is Tier 1?

100

The service, frequency, and location of group counseling.

What is Related Services?

100

A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

What is Autism?

100

The degree of skill in speaking the language.

What is Language Proficiency?

100

Allows students to view language and social interaction patterns.

What is Modeling?

200

An intervention that provides access to all students.

What is Tier 1?

200

A statement of the student's present levels of academic performance

What is a PLAAFP?

200

A hearing impairment so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

What is Deafness?

200

A reference to the language in which the student is most fluent.

What is Language Dominance?

200

A way students can develop basic interpersonal skills and social skills.

What is Role Playing?

300

An intervention to provide early identification and correction of learning difficulties.

What is Tier 2?

300

A statement of what the student will need to participate in state, district-wide, and classroom assessments.

What is testing accommodations?

300

An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but is not included under the definition of "deafness."

What is Hearing Impairment?

300

The language in which the student prefers to communicate.

What is Language Preference?

300

A way to help all students learn relevant cues for using appropriate interpersonal skills.

What is Prompting?

400

An intervention to offer treatment to limit the negative consequences of learning difficulties.

What is Tier 3?

400

Technology, including devices and services a student may need. 

What is assistive technology?

400

Significantly sub average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently [at the same time] with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

What is Intellectual Disability?

400

A phenomenon commonly observed in individuals learning a second language.

What is Code Switching?

400

A way to show students the language and structure of social interactions.

What is Scripting?

500

An intervention to determine if special education services are needed.

What is Tier 4?

500

Postsecondary goals in the areas of training, education, employment, and community participation.

What are Transition Services?

500

A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.

What is Specific Learning Disability?

500

A period where ELL students refrain from verbalizing.

What is a Silent Period?

500

Something many English language learners need help in developing?

What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)?
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