Special Education Law
Inclusion
Eligibility Categories
Modifications & Accommodations
People & Special Education
100

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

What is IDEA? IDEA adopted a language of "child first" and provided a set of guidelines regarding the legal rights of children with disabilities, and their families to support and services.

100

This is a common location infants and toddlers with disabilities receive their services

What is in the home/natural environment?

100
Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness
What is Deaf-Blindness?
100

Physical, gestural, and verbal means to cue a child.

What are prompts/scaffolds?

100

This person often joined Dr. Devitt's class and helped students write using pencil grips (and participate in everyday activities)

Who is a Occupational Therapist?

200
The year that all American children were granted the right to a free and appropriate education?
What is 1975?
200

The belief that all children ought to be and learn together.

What is Inclusion/Inclusive settings?

200
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
What is a Specific Learning Disability?
200

Breaking a task down into smaller steps to teach the child in a logical sequence.

What is Task Analysis/chunking?

200

These people are required on IEP teams for their expert knowledge of the student and the history. 

Who are parents and/or guardians?

300

Early Childhood Intervention Programs (ECI)

What are programs that provide services for children ages birth to three with disabilities?

300

Classrooms in which both children with and without disabilities are educated and support services are provided to meet all the children's needs.

What are Inclusive classrooms?

300
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance
What is Autism?
300

A cognitive teaching strategy that involves creating a narratives specific to the learner to teach desired behaviors/expectations.

What is Social Story?

300

This person helps students with expressive and receptive interactions and processing.

Who is the speech language pathologist?

400
A system consisting of organized efforts in each state to locate and identify children who might have developmental delays or might be at risk for developmental problems.
What is Child Find?
400
A researched based process that aims at improving academic performance. It consists of different tiers of intervention and progress monitoring as the basis of assessment and intervention for children who have learning problems.
What is known as Response to Intervention (RTI)?
400
A significant subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is an Intellectual Disability?
400

A change to curriculum or assessment

What is a modification?

400

This person is responsible for collecting data and testing multiple strategies prior to referring a student for special education.

Who is the regular education teacher?

500

This act prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in employment, public services, public accommodations, and telecommunications.

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?

500

The type of environment that children with disabilities must be placed in when they attend public school to maximize their participation with regular education peers and program.

What is the Least Restrictive Environment?

500

a common neurodevelopmental disorder typically diagnosed in childhood and often lasts into adulthood where children have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors (may act without thinking about what the result will be), or be overly active must be situated under this eligibility category.

What is a Other Health Impairment? OHI

500

A technology, tool, or practice that changes how students learn in the classroom.

What is accomodation?

500

This person / people are responsible for making decisions about the IEP, underand present levels of performance, devise modifications accommodations, & goal setting.

Who is everyone on the IEP team?

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