Disability & Ableism
This term describes attitudes, assumptions, practices, or systems that devalue or exclude disabled people.
What is ableism?
This means students with and without disabilities learn together in meaningful, participatory ways.
What is inclusive education?
This model primarily locates disability within the individual and emphasizes treatment or remediation.
What is the medical model?
Challenging behavior can serve as this.
What is communication?
This acronym stands for Multi-Tiered System of Supports.
What is MTSS?
This question shifts an educator's focus from blaming a student to identifying what the student needs to succeed.
What does the student need to be successful?
This is the feeling of being recognized, valued, and included as a member of the classroom community.
What is belonging?
This model examines how environmental, attitudinal, and systemic barriers contribute to disability.
What is the social model?
These three letters identify the observation format students practiced when examining challenging behavior.
What is ABC?
This MTSS tier provides core, universal, high-quality instruction for all students.
What is Tier 1?
This principle recognizes that disability is one aspect of a person’s identity, not the whole person.
What is seeing the whole person?
These two elements go beyond simply placing a student in the same classroom as their peers.
What are access and participation?
This term describes portraying disabled people only as helpless, tragic, inspirational, or in need of fixing.
What are disability stereotypes or tropes?
When documenting student behavior, educators should leave out this, which can distort their interpretation of events.
What is bias?
This type of support allows a student to access the same essential content through a different method or format.
What is an accommodation?
This approach recognizes that people with disabilities have different strengths, needs, interests, and personalities.
What is recognizing individual differences?
Instead of expecting students to fit a rigid classroom, inclusive educators change it to support different learners.
What are the environment, expectations, supports, and systems?
This approach asks whose voices, histories, abilities, and contributions appear in the curriculum.
What is meaningful representation?
These people should be involved when educators work to understand and address challenging behavior, alongside observation and documentation.
Who are the parents or family members?
This type of change alters the expectations by changing or reducing the skills or content a student is expected to learn or demonstrate.
What is a modification?
A teacher assumes a student cannot complete an activity because of a disability without exploring possible supports. This is an example of what?
What is an ableist assumption?
A student is physically present in class but cannot access the materials, participate in activities, or build relationships. What does this demonstrate about inclusion?
What is the difference between placement and meaningful inclusion?
A teacher provides an accessible worksheet instead of telling a student who cannot access the original to simply try harder. Which disability model does this response reflect?
What is the social model of disability?
A teacher labels a student lazy but notices the student begins working after receiving a model and help with the first sentence. What should the teacher do before drawing conclusions?
What is observe and document the behavior objectively, examine possible barriers, and identify needed supports?
In Illinois, how long does a district have to complete an initial special education evaluation after receiving parental consent?
What is 60 school days?