What's "Stat" About
The percentage of school-age children identified for special education services.
What is 8.7%?
The least prevalent disability among children.
What is blindness?
In 2010, this law mandated that "intellectual disability" replace "mental retardation".
What is Rosa's Law?
A condition that may be severe, but resolves with treatment. (Also describes that baby.)
What is acute?
FBA
What is Functional Behavioral Assessment?
The percentage of students that have ADHD that also have a learning disability.
What is 50%?
With this condition Andre's legs are paralyzed, but he has full use of his arms.
What is paraplegia?
The requirement that public transportation be made accessible for people with disabilities is an accomplishment of this act.
What is Americans with Disability Act (ADA)?
The percentage of a population having a particular exceptionality. (Also the synonym of the name of a famous Chicago rapper/actor.)
What is prevalence?
PBIS
What is Positive Behavioral Interventions & Support?
The prevalence of this disability is 5 times higher in boys than in girls.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
Clara has good vision for assignments written on the blackboard, but this refraction problem creates difficulty with the print in her textbook.
What is hyperopia (farsightedness)?
In this historic court case the U.S. Supreme Court decided that appropriate education does not necessarily mean education that will produce the maximum possible achievement.
What is Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley, 1982?
Disadvantages imposed on an individual. (Is also kept in a guy's back pocket in case it's sunny out.)
What is handicap?
IFSP
What is Individualized Family Service Plan?
This percentage of children identified for special education receive services primarily for speech or language disorders.
What is 20% (or 1/5 :-)?
The two primary accommodations for this group are acceleration and enrichment.
What are students with special gifts?
In this year, IDEA was re-authorized and became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA).
What is 2004?
Decoding, or understanding messages. (Can you hear me now?)
What is receptive language?
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
This ethnic group is over-represented in the population with hearing impairments.
What is Hispanic?
This therapy focuses on sensory and gross motor functions, whereas this therapy focuses on support for daily living skills.
What is physical therapy and occupational therapy?
This act requires that students with disabilities participate in state-wide assessments and that they show progress.
What is No Child Left Behind / Every Student Succeeds Act?
A person's awareness of what strategies are needed to perform a task, the ability to plan how to use the strategies, and the evaluation of how well the strategies are working. (Pleased to make your acquaintance, Thought.)
What is metacognition?
TEACCH
What is Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Child?