SPED TERMS
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LITIGATION WORLD
MIXED BAG
RELATED SERVICES
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A problem someone encounters based on external factors.
What does handicap mean?
100
Least Restrictive Environment for a student means that sped students can receive their education to the maximum extent possible with nondisabled peers.
What does LRE mean?
100
A 1990 court case that ruled that intelligence tests were not biased against African American students.
What was PASE v. Hannon?
100
Learning Disabled students.
What is the largest category of exceptionalities for children?
100
A related service that involves academic, emotional, and rehabilitative counseling for the students and families of students with exceptional needs.
What is counseling?
200
Limitation that is the result of an impairment.
What is a disability?
200
This refers to Free Appropriate Public Education right that is guaranteed for all children with disabilities in the IDEA Act.
What does FAPE mean?
200
A 1967 court case that ruled that standardized testing was biased against African American and disadvantaged students.
What was Hobson v. Hansen?
200
Examples of Assistive Technology
What do pencil grips and raised lined paper have in common?
200
A related service that provides opportunities for special needs students in the areas of wellness instruction and recreation.
What is recreation?
300
Physiological and psychological loss or abnormality of a function or structure.
What is impairment?
300
Individualized Education Plan is a specifically created plan for a special education student that has been developed by the special education team, parents, administrators, and the student. There are usually five members of the special ed. team.
What does IEP mean?
300
A landmark, 1972 court case that resulted in the banning of IQ tests for African American students in California.
What was Larry P. v. Riles?
300
Samuel Gridley Howe
Who is the founder of The Perkins School for the Blind?
300
This type of related service can provide family interventions, assistance with community resources, and group counseling for the special needs student's family.
What are social work services?
400
A gifted or talented, as well as disabled student whose needs are not met by the traditional classroom curriculum.
What is an exceptional student?
400
Occupational Therapy is one of the related special education services which incorporates recuperating from a physical or mental illness through the performance of daily life activities.
What is O.T. represent?
400
A 1973 court case that ruled that tests must be administered in students' native language, as well as placement of students not by culturally biased tests.
What was Diana v. CA. BOE?
400
Individualized Education Program which is a specifically designed special educational education plan for children with exceptionalities.
What does IEP stand for when it is used?
400
This related service does not provide refills on medication or yearly physical exams.
What are medical services?
500
The total number of individuals who are in a given category at a particular point in time.
What does prevalence mean?
500
Federal legislation enacted that states that special education students are entitled to FAPE that addressed their individualized educational needs.
What IDEA stand for?
500
A 1979 court case that required the use of culturally unbiased assessments.
What was Guadalupe v. Tempe BOE?
500
All children with disabilities must be evaluated and identified for special education services as mandated by IDEA legislation.
What is Child Find?
500
A related service that provides individual and ongoing assessments of physical functioning, makes recommendations for therapy interventions, and can use electrical stimulation to increase flexibility and strength of the student.
What is physical therapy?
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