Laws/Acts
State mandate to locate and refer individuals who might require Special Education.
What is Child Find?
A class for students with a disability who are grouped together for a special education program.
What is Separate Class?
A process to ensure researchers are provided with reasonable accommodations and modifications before they are referred for special education assessment.
What is Prereferral?
An approach that advocates that general educators assume greater responsibility for the education of students with disabilities.
What is Regular Education Initiative (REI)?
A collection of the work a student has, shown at IEP meetings.
What are Work Samples?
Accommodations that allow for a change in environment or in how the environment is structured.
What are Setting Accommodations?
An Act that prohibits the discrimination with disabilities in several areas; including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications, and access to state and local government programs and services.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
An overarching assessment to gather information of mastery of students work over time.
What is a Portfolio?
Accommodations that change the way the material is instructed, directed, and presented.
What are Presentation Accommodations?
What Public Law guarantees free public education for students with disabilities?
What is PL 94-142?
A separate, remedial classroom in a school where students with educational disabilities are given instruction and assistance with homework and related assignments as individuals.
What is a Resource Room?
Refers to the amount of time in each school day that a student spend in the resource or in a general education classroom.
What is Educational Placement?
What act ensures that all children with disabilities are entitled to a free appropriate public education to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment and independent living?
What is IDEA (2004)?
An education philosophy which says that no child can be denied an education because they are "uneducable".
What are Criterion-Referenced assessments?