Special Education Foundation
This special education service provides specially designed instruction to students with disabilities at no cost to parents.
What is special education?
This 1972 court case determined that children with intellectual disabilities should receive a public education appropriate to their needs.
What is PARC v. Pennsylvania?
IDEA identifies this number of specific disability categories.
What is 13?
This section outlines a student's strengths, needs, and how their disability impacts their progress in the general education curriculum.
What is the Present Levels of Performance?
This team member is required to be present and is qualified to provide or supervise the provision of specially designed instruction.
Who is the LEA Representative?
These are aids, services, and other supports provided in the regular education classroom to enable students with disabilities to be educated with non-disabled peers.
What are supplementary aids and services?
This is the term used to describe the general education classroom as the preferred placement for most students with disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment?
According to the nondiscriminatory evaluation section of IDEA, this statement is true - more than one test must be used to assess the presence of a disability.
What is that more than one test must be used?
These are written statements of measurable academic and functional goals developed to meet a student's needs.
What are IEP Goals?
This team member provides expertise on the general education curriculum and the student's progress within it.
Who is the General Education Teacher?
This movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the involuntary sterilization of many people with disabilities.
What is the eugenics movement?
The IDEA outlines 6 main tenets, including this one that ensures students with disabilities receive an education at no cost to parents.
What is free appropriate public education (FAPE)?
This tenet of IDEA provides that students with disabilities are entitled to receive an education, regardless of the nature or severity of their disability.
What is zero reject?
This section specifies the special education, related services, program modifications, and supports that will be provided to the student.
What is the Special Education and Related Services section?
This team member develops and manages the IEP, discussing the student's response to instruction and services.
Who is the Special Education Teacher?
Which statement below is true about the foundational concepts of special education?
Special education is a set of services, including specially designed instruction, which children with disabilities receive in any school setting at no cost to parents.
For most students with disabilities, which of the following represents the Least Restrictive Environment?
Being educated in a general education classroom with supports.
According to the IDEA, students with this type of disability have impairments in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.
What is a specific learning disability?
his document must be reviewed and updated at least annually for each student receiving special education services.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
This team member has knowledge or special expertise regarding the child, and can be included at the discretion of the parent or agency.
Who is an "Other Individual"?
Which of the following best represents supplementary aids and services in special education?
Aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classrooms or other education-related settings to enable students with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled students.
The education to which all students with disabilities are entitled must be FAPE. Which of the following best describes FAPE?
Parents and family members cannot be asked to pay for special education services.
Based on the section of IDEA concerning nondiscriminatory evaluation, which statement is true?
More than one test must be used to assess the presence of a disability.
The IEP team must consider this when developing a student's IEP, such as the use of positive behavioral interventions and supports.
What are the Special Considerations?
This team member is a required participant and their input and feedback is critical to the success of the IEP and the student.
Who is the Parent?