Special Education Law
Year where all American children were granted the right to a free and appropriate education.
What is 1975?
A physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.
What is Disability.
A communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is Speech Impairment?
Federal law that requires schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Written goals and a focus plan of actions that are created by a student's specialized team
What is the/an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
Act that held schools to be accountable for academic performance of all students, whether or not they had disabilities.
What is No Child Left Behind Act.
A disadvantage imposed on an individual.
What is a Handicap?
A combination of sight and hearing loss that affects a person’s ability to communicate, access information, and get around.
What is Deaf-Blindness.
A program that specializes in services for children from birth until 3 years with developmental disabilities.
What are Early Interventions?
The process of modifying instruction and content to fit the needs of students who need extra support
What is differentiation/differentiated instruction?
Act that forbids discrimination in schools based on disability and persevered the rights of students and their families.
What is The Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Specially designed instruction that meets the needs of exceptional students.
What is Special Education?
A disability that affects the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do mathematical calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention.
What is Learning Disability?
Autism, Deaf-blindness, Deafness, Emotional disturbance, Hearing impairment, Intellectual disability, Multiple disabilities, Orthopedic impairment, Other health impairment (including ADHD), Specific learning disability, Speech or language impairment, Traumatic brain injury, Visual impairment, including blindness
What is Eligibility for Disability Categories?
Popular form of instructional intervention which uses a series of increasingly intense interventions until the student’s area of academic need is met
What are the 3 Tiers of Instruction?
Law requires that all public schools accepting federal funds must provide equal access to education for children with physical and/or mental disabilities.
What is Education for all Handicapped Children Act (EHA) 4.
Changes in the delivery of instruction, type of instruction, tripe of performance, or method of assessment that does not significantly change the content or conceptual difficulty of the curriculum.
What is Accommodation?
A chronic condition including attention, difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
What is ADHD? (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects a student's right to this
What is a student's right to confidentiality?
Standardized curriculum used to present levels of growth. Designed to be administered in individual sessions, and provide grade equivalent, standardized and age equivalent scores.
What are Individualized Achievement Tests?
Act that was created to instate provisions not covered by EHA.
What is Handicpped Children’s Protection Act (HCPA)
Provides effective and high-quality instruction, monitors all students progress, and provides additional support to students who are struggling.
What is RTI (Response to Intervention)?
A developmental disability caused by differences in the brain.
What is Autism?
This ensures that all individuals/students from birth until age 21 who have a qualifying disability receive at public expense supervised special education and related services that meet their specific educational needs.
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
Important tool in working with autistic and learning delayed students designed to determine language and critical learner skills.
What is Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS)?