History
This 1954 Supreme Court case sparked many important, civil rights changes in the American public school system.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Learning Disabilities are very common, being found in this many Americans.
What is 1 in 5 Americans?
These are the most common signs that a child has an Intellectual Disability.
What are learning at a slower rate and not understanding social situations?
Peer conflict resolution circles and mediated conversations are examples of this helpful approach.
What is Restorative Justice?
This Physical disability is characterized by the inability to control complete motor and muscle coordination/control.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
The Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA, passed in this year, minimizes discrimination against people with disabilities in all areas of life.
What is the year 1990?
This late actor and comedian, known for roles like the Genie and Mr. Keating, was diagnosed with ADHD.
Rosa's Law, signed in this year, changed the definition of Intellectual Disability by one word to reduce stigma.
What is October 2010?
This is the cause of Emotional Disabilities.
Trick Question, there is no widely known cause for Emotional Disabilities.
Students can receive specialized plans if they suffer from this symptom of Physical disabilities.
What are seizures?
When Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, in 1975, they created these important plans which are still used today.
What is an IEP or Individualized Education Program?
These skills are typically the most affected by Learning Disabilities.
What are writing, reading, speaking, and listening?
This many Americans are diagnosed with an Intellectual Disability.
What is around 6.5 million?
This many children have been prescribed medicine for these disabilities.
What is almost 3 million?
This traumatic event can lead to many Physical Disabilities.
What is brain injury?
In this year the United States Congress amended the ESEA to create grants for students with disabilities.
What is 1966, only a year after the ESEA was originally passed?
This shape of interventions can provide helpful strategies to benefit various groups of students.
What is the Three-Tiered Pyramid of Interventions?
These are the common causes of Intellectual Disabilities.
What are genetic issues, problems during birth/pregnancy, and other health problems?
True or False. Anxiety disorders, Eating disorders, OCD, and more are all examples of Emotional disabilities.
What is True? Many disorders fit under the broad term of Emotional Disability.
The term Other Health Impairment is one of this many disability categories listed by IDEA.
What is 14 categories?
A disability is defined as such under Section 504.
What is a mental or physical impairment which limits major life activities?
Ally Nickerson is diagnosed with this Learning Disability in the 2015 novel, Fish in a Tree, written by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
What is dyslexia?
The unanimous Supreme Court decision provided an important step in FAPE requirements.
What is Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District Re-1?
These are common characteristics of children with Emotional disabilities.
What are hyperactivity, immaturity, aggression, and withdrawal?
This Other Health Impairment is characterized by random and involuntary outbursts, also known as tics.
What is Tourette Syndrome?