Laws
Types of Disabilities
Types of Disabilities
Vocabulary
Hodgepodge
100
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
100
Children with a low IQ
What is Intellectual Disability or Mental Retardation?
100
Inability to see well or at all
What is visual impairment?
100
Children will be in with general education classes for at least part of the time.
What is inclusion?
100
Teaching children where life happens, such as grocery store, home, the park.
What is a natural setting?
200
The document that spells out the goals and accommodations for school age children with disabilites.
What is and IEP - Individualized Education Plan?
200
The most prevalent of disabilities, children have difficulty processing reading, writing, or math.
What is Learning Disability?
200
Inability to hear well or at all.
What is Hearing Impairment
200
Children will be in a general education classroom as much as possible.
What is least restricted environment?
200
More likely to be in special education programs.
What is minorities/ low income families?
300
Document that spells out the goals and accommodations for a child from birth to three.
What is IFSP- Individualized family service plan?
300
Muscular Dystrophy or other motor problems
What is orthopedic impairments
300
When children need to develop their sounds correctly or be able to express themselves better to be understood.
What is Speech & Language?
300
The promise that children will be given the best education for them without charge.
What is free, appropriate public education?
300
Help for moms and dads who need time away from constant care needs.
What is respite care?
400
The person assigned to a family of a child under 3 to help them gain services they need.
What is a service coordinator?
400
A disability in learning social cues, interacting with others.
What is Autism Spectrum?
400
Children who are depressed or act out in more severe ways.
What is Emotional Disturbance?
400
The term that means children will get taught in a different way; right for them.
What is differentiated instruction?
400
written within 90 days, updated each year, reevaluated every three years.
What is timelines for an IEP?
500
A legally mandated plan to provide accommodations for children not covered under IDEA.
What is 504 plan?
500
This could be something that brings down the energy or concentration level of a child such as asthma or diabetes.
What is Health Impairments?
500
More severe inabilities to reach certain milestones or inability to reach several milestones in growth and ability.
What is Developmental Delay?
500
School's mandate to identify children needing special services.
What is child find?
500
An assistive technology that helps deaf hear.
What is cochlear implant?
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