Exceptional Children
Differentiation
What is the practice of adjusting instruction for learners at various levels of mastery.
IEP
What is an Individualized Education Program?
Play-Based Learning
What is a context for learning through which children organize and make sense of their social worlds, as they actively engage with people, objects, and representations?
PD
What is Professional Development?
DD
What is Developmentally Delayed?
Early Intervention
What are services provided to children aged 0-3?
LEA
What is the Local Education Agency?
Formative Assessment
What is ongoing data collection to determine growth across time?
DCDEE
What is the Department of Child Development and Early Education?
SLI or SI
What is Speech Language Impairment?
Adaptations and Modifications
What is the process of changing activities or instruction to support learning?
IFSP
Summative Assessment
What is the assessment used to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit?
ELL/ML
What is English Language Learner or Multilingual Learner?
AU
What is Autism?
Parents and families should be included on this team.
What is the Individualized Education Plan team?
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
What is an approach to teaching grounded in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about effective early education. Its framework is designed to promote young children’s optimal learning and development.
FAPE
What is a Free and Appropriate Public Education?
HI
What is Hearing Impairment?
Children with special needs should be educated/served in this type of setting.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
LRE
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
The age range defined by "Early Childhood"
What is birth to age 8?
FERPA
What is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?
OHI
What is Other Health Impairment?
The people qualified in North Carolina to provide general education and special education to children with special needs.
What is a Birth-Kindergarten certified teacher?
OCR
What is the Office of Civil Rights?
Curriculum is defined as
What is the content chosen to be taught during early childhood education programs?
NAEYC
What is the National Association for the Education of Young Children?
VI
What is Visual Impairment?