Laws
Instructional Strategies
School Practices
Disability Types
Other Terms
100
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
What is the law that prohibits discrimination for disabled individuals in all public places?
100
Metacognition
What is the ability of students to monitor their own thinking?
100
Full Inclusion
What is the practice that includes all disabled students in the regular classroom all of the time?
100
Speech or Language Impairment
What is the disability that includes mild speech disorders?
200
IDEA
What is the law that serves as a legal basis for educating students with disabilities.
200
Scaffolding
What is the technique that breaks down a process into steps and then combines the steps to solve a problem?
200
Least Restictive Alternative
What is the practice of having disabled students in regular classes as much as is beneficial to their education?
200
Intellectual Disabilities
What is the term for a broad range of students who have impairments in intellectual and adaptive skills.
200
Universal Design for Learning
What is the principle that provides multiple means of expression, representation, and engagement in the classroom?
300
Section 504
What is the part of the Rehabilitation Act that allows students who are not eligible for special education services to be served?
300
Mnemonic Device
What is a "trick" for helping students improve their memory?
300
Accommodations
What is the practice of allowing students exceptions to the usual expectations in test taking or assignments?
300
Learning Disability
What is a processing or perceptual deficit that causes difficulty in basic skill areas such as reading, writing, and math?
300
Adequate Yearly Progress
What measures the minimum standard or benchmark for schools in the NCLB Act?
400
Exclusion Clause
What is the part of the federal definition of learning disabilities that requires educators to insure that the primary cause of poor academic achievement is not another disability or environmental conditions?
400
Differentiated Instruction
What is practice offers multiple options for taking in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing ideas?
400
Response to Intervention
What is the system that insures that students receive necessary instruction in tiers, depending upon frequent measurement of academic practice?
400
Other Health Impairments
What is the category that many students with ADHD are classified under?
400
Alternative Routes to Certification
What is a way for individuals who are coming from another career become teachers without going through four more years of school?
500
NCLB
What is the comprehensive educational law designed to improve the achievement of all students?
500
Functional Skill Instruction
What is instruction that focuses on things students will need to function in daily life?
500
Alternate Assessments
What is used with only about 1% of the school population who are unable to achieve the same standards as their same age peers?
500
Orthopedic Impairments
What is the disability in which students have physical limitations?
500
Severe Discrepancy
What is the term for the difference between the students ability and achievement that is required for identification of a learning disability?
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