Autism
When you've met one child with autism, you've met how many children with autism.
What is one?
Documentation and written analysis of one or more of these 3 characteristics of emotional and behavioral disorders must be included in an eligibility:
duration, frequency, and THIS
What is intensity?
Deficits in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior must have existed prior to this age.
What is the age of 18?
This is the pattern of a student with a specific learning disability.
What is a pattern of strengths and weaknesses?
The type of evaluation from a licensed Doctor of Medicine, or in the case of ADD and ADHD an evaluation by a licensed Doctor of Medicine or licensed clinical psychologist.
What is a medical evaluation?
This type of history includes differences and delays and age of onset, which is typically before the age of 3.
What is developmental history?
This eligibility area is exclusionary for an emotional behavior disability eligibility.
What is intellectual disability?
General intellectual functioning must be this number or below.
What is 70?
The number of sources of evidence to conclude that the child exhibits a pattern of strengths and weaknesses in performance, achievement, or both, relative to age, state-approved grade level standards and intellectual development.
What are multiple sources? Not just one!
The evaluation report used for initial eligibility shall be current within THIS time period and must document the impact of the physical condition on the vitality, alertness or strength of the child.
What is within one year?
Social interaction/participation and atypical responses to sensory stimuli are just two characteristics of this type of evaluation.
What is behavioral?
Documentation of comprehensive extension of services available in the regular program to include counseling, modifications of the regular program or alternative placement available to all children, and data-based progress monitoring of the results of interventions should happen at this time.
Prior to eligibility
A comprehensive evaluation must indicate deficits in both intellectual functioning and this.
What is adaptive behavior?
A comprehensive assessment of intellectual development designed to assess specific measures of this type of skills that may contribute to the area of academic weakness.
What are processing skills (particularly those that may contribute to the area of the academic weakness!)
In cases of illness where the child’s physical health and well-being are subject to deterioration or change, the medical report shall be updated with this frequency.
What is as frequently as determined by the IEP committee?
Eligibility shall be based on assessment of this number of characteristic areas associated with autism spectrum disorder.
What is 5?
One eligibility criteria for an emotional behavior disorder eligibility is the inability to build or maintain these.
What are satisfactory interpersonal relationships peers or teachers (for pre-k includes other care providers)?
Documentation of adaptive must include information from at least this number of sources-someone from the local school and someone outside of school such as a parent, guardian, or person acting as a parent.
What are two?
This eligibility does not apply to children who have learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing or motor disabilities, intellectual disabilities, emotional or behavioral disorders, environmental, cultural or economic disadvantage.
What is a specific learning disability?
This type of assessment should be given to indicate the effects of the health impairment on the child’s educational performance.
What is a comprehensive developmental or educational assessment?
A comprehensive psych must include an adaptive behavior and what other type of formal measure?
A criteria for an emotional behavior disorder eligibilty includes the consistent or chronic inappropriate type of behavior or feelings under these types of conditions.
What are normal conditions?
This is how intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior shall be considered in any determination that a child is eligible for services in the area of intellectual disability.
What is equally?
Children whose achievement in classroom academics indicates performance that is commensurate with pervasive weaknesses that are not indicative of a pattern of strengths and weaknesses may not be considered for this eligibilty.
What is a specific learning disability?
When assessment information indicates significant deficits in cognitive/academic functioning, this should be given.
What is a psychological evaluation?