Accoms and Mods
Preferential seating, extended time, and small-group testing are examples of this type of support.
This federal law governs special education services for eligible students with disabilities.
What is IDEA?
A student who has significant difficulty with reading despite appropriate instruction might qualify under this disability category if eligibility criteria are met.
What is Specific Learning Disability (SLD)?
IEP
What is Individualized Education Plan?
This plan provides specialized instruction and services to an eligible student with a disability.
What is an IEP?
This changes how a student accesses or demonstrates learning without changing what the student is expected to learn.
What is an accommodation
IDEA requires eligible students with disabilities to receive this at no cost to the family.
Which of the following is not a disabilty categories under IDEA: Autism, orthopedic impairment, intellectual disability, or down syndrome?
What is Down Syndrome?
EC
What is Exceptional Children?
This plan may provide accommodations to a student with a disability who needs equal access but does not require specially designed instruction.
What is a Section 504 Plan?
Instead of completing grade-level work, a student is expected to master different or reduced academic standards. This is an example of what?
What is a modification?
This IDEA principle requires students with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is LRE?
A student having a medical diagnosis of ADHD automatically means the student qualifies for an IEP. True or false?
What is false?
BIP
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
This plan provides language supports for a student identified as an English Learner and is based on English-language proficiency needs rather than disability.
What is an EL Plan?
A student's IEP says “frequent checks for understanding.” The teacher believes the student doesn't need it in their class. What should the teacher do?
Implement the accommodation as written in the IEP. Document performance and discuss with case manager if an IEP meeting is needed.
A teacher wants to remove a student with an IEP from a field trip simply because the student has challenging behavior. What document(s) should staff review before making decisions about supports?
The student's IEP and, if applicable, BIP.
A student has more than one disability whose combined educational needs are sufficiently significant that they cannot be addressed through a program designed solely for one disability. What IDEA category may apply?
What is Multiple Disabilties?
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
John is an English Learner AND has Autism with an educational impact requiring specially designed instruction. Which plan(s) might the student have?
What is IEP and EL Plan?
A student’s IEP requires extended time and small-group testing. On test day, the teacher forgets and gives the student the assessment under standard conditions. What should the teacher do?
The student's required accommodations were not implemented. The teacher should report the error and follow the school's procedures for addressing it.
This legal requirement means schools must identify, locate, and evaluate students who may have disabilities and need special education services—even if they have not yet been formally identified
What is Child Find?
Two students have the exact same disability category on their IEPs. Does this mean they should receive the same accommodations, goals, and services?
What is no? IEP services, goals, and accommodations are individualized based on each student's unique needs.
What is Prior Written Notice?
A student is struggling academically. The student has an EL Plan, and the teacher believes the struggles may be caused by a disability. Does having an EL Plan prevent the student from being referred for a special education evaluation?
What is no? An EL student may also have a disability and can be evaluated for special education when a disability is suspected.