Legislation
IDEA
Disability Categories
Key Terms
Acronyms
100
This U.S. Supreme Court case established the principle that school segregation denies students equal educational opportunity.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
100
This law, passed in 1975, was formerly known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. It set federal guidelines for special education and laid the foundation upon which current special education practice rests.
What is Public Law 94-142?
100
The number of disability categories served under IDEA.
What is 13?
100
Putting the person first and the disability second.
What is person-first language?
100
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
200
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that special education services must provide an appropriate education but that students with disabilities may not be entitled to optimum services. The parents of a student with a hearing loss were denied an interpreter for their child in school because the child was achieving at grade level.
What is Rowley vs. Board of Education?
200
Students with disabilities are entitled to attend public schools and receive the educational services they need, at no cost to their parents.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
200
This is the most common disability, accounting for over half of all students receiving special education.
What is learning disability?
200
Students with disabilities must be educated in the least restrictive environment in which they can succeed with appropriate supports provided. For most students, this environment is the general education classroom.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
200
DD
What is Developmental Delay?
300
The U.S. District Court ruled that schools may not refuse to educate students with mental retardation. The court ordered that a free public education was to be provided to ALL students.
What is PARC vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
300
No student may be excluded from public education because of a disability.
What is zero reject?
300
A partial or complete loss of hearing.
What is hearing impairment?
300
Placing students with disabilities in general education settings ONLY when they can meet traditional academic expectations with minimal assistance or when those expectations are not relevant. This is now considered a dated term.
What is mainstreaming?
300
AU
What is autism?
400
This is a civil rights law that prevents discrimination against all individuals with disabilities in programs that receive federal funds, as do all public schools.
What is Section 504?
400
Students with disabilities must be educated in the least restrictive environment in which they can succeed with appropriate supports provided. For most students, this environment is the general education classroom.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
400
A disorder characterized by extraordinary difficulty in social responsiveness; this disability occurs in many different forms and may be mild or significant.
What is autism?
400
Physical integration, social integration, and instructional integration.
What are the 3 dimensions of inclusive practices?
400
LD
What is learning disability?
500
This law protects all individuals with disabilities from discrimination, and requires most employers to make reasonable accommodations for them.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
500
Students must be assessed using instruments that do not discriminate on the basis of race, culture, or disability. Eligibility cannot be decided on the basis of only one test.
What is nondiscriminatory evaluation?
500
A nonspecific disability category that states may choose to use as an alternative to specific disability labels for identifying students up to age 9 needing special education.
What is developmental delay (DD)?
500
Specially designed instruction that meets the unique needs of students with disabilities according to federal and state eligibility criteria.
What is special education?
500
NCLB
What is No Child Left Behind?
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