Special Education Law
What is a Special Education law?
Any law that helps special education children at schools, assuring that they get the best learning opportunities also.
What are the three Tiers of Suport?
1- Core Classroom Insturction
2-Targeted Small Group Instruction
3-Intensive Individual Instruction
What are speech and language disorers?
When there is dificulty pronouncing sounds, dificulty understanding what they hear, stuttering and other voice disorders.
What does I.D.E.A. stand for?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
What is a learing disability?
A disability that can impact a students learning in any way.
What is the Assistive Technology Act?
It provides assistive technology for those students with a disability so they can better participate in their education.
What is R.T.I. and what does it stand for?
Response to Intervention. It provides students that extra practice that they need to match the student's need.
What are some physical and mental disabilities?
Epelepsy, cerebral palsy, depression, and schizophrenia.
What is I.D.E.A.?
A law that makes available a free and appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities.
Besides school, what else does a learning disability affect?
Daily routines, family life, friendships, and social contexts.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
A law that requires states to evualte their students every year by testing them, this is from grades 3rd to 8th. It makes sure that each student is at their grade level and are ready to move to the next.
What are the goals for R.T.I.?
To prevent academic and behavioral problems. And to determine elegibility as a student with a specific learning disability.
What are some symptoms of Autism?
Abnormal body posturing or facial experssions. Poor eye contact. Delay in learning to speak.
What is I.E.P. and what does it stand for?
Individual Education Plan. A special education law under I.D.E.A. that creates an individualized educational plan for a special education student.
A learning disability can affect a person's what?
Listening, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, reasoning, and mathematics.
What is the Section 504 of ADA?
It makes sure that any student with a disability isn't exluded from any school benifits.
How is R.T.I. used in elemntary vs in highschool.
In elementary: small groups pulled during lesson. Highschool: tutoring outside of school.
What is the difference between A.D.D. and A.D.H.D.?
A.D.D. is a type of A.D.H.D. but doesn't involve constant moving and fidgeting.
What are the two requirments to quaify for an I.E.P.?
Student must have a disabilty under one of the 13 categories under I.D.E.A. And the disabilty has to affect the child's ability to learn.
What are the three most common learing disabilties in the mainstream classrooms?
Dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia.
What are some support groups for children with a type of disability.
Special education laws for school learning. Physical and emotional therapy sessions. Other types of progrms and hotlines for different kinds of disabilities.
What can be an imagery example of R.T.I.?
Pyramid and Butterfly life cycle.
How does Differention work?
It is tailoring instructions to meet the students' needs. When lesson planning the teacher always has to keep in mind those students who have a learning disability and considerate of them and make the lesson plan work for them too.
What is the referral process on being on I.D.E.A.?
If the student is suspected on having a learning disability they will get an R.T.I., and if the students doesn't improve then the teacher will begin a referral process for a special education evaluation.
A student with a learning disabaility may be seen as _____ but they arne't.
Retarded, lazy, dumb, incapable, and slow learners.