IDEA Basics
This federal law ensures services to children with disabilities throughout the nation and governs early intervention and special education.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
This section of the IEP describes the student's current abilities and is abbreviated as PLAAFP.
What is Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance?
This type of technology includes any item or system used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of students with disabilities.
What is Assistive Technology?
Parents must receive this many days' notice before an IEP meeting.
What is 10 days?
Only this percentage of students with disabilities in grades 3-12 may take the Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA).
What is 1%?
This principle requires that students with disabilities be educated with non-disabled peers to the greatest extent appropriate.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
These must be reviewed and revised annually and should be measurable objectives the child is expected to achieve within a year.
What are annual goals?
This change in HOW a student learns does not alter the standard.
What is an Accommodation?
This review must be conducted within 10 school days when a student faces disciplinary action that may result in a change of placement.
What is a Manifestation Determination Review (MDR)?
Students taking this alternative assessment must meet all eligibility criteria, including having a significant cognitive disability and requiring intensive supports.
What is the Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA 2.0)?
This legal requirement mandates schools to identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities who may need special education services.
What is Child Find?
This type of plan must begin by age 14 and includes post-secondary goals and needed services.
What is a Transition Plan?
This assessment tool must be used three times per year to determine students' need for reading accommodations. (Remember to consider at least two other forms of data to make determinations.)
What is uPAR (Universal Protocol for Accommodations in Reading)?
Before proceeding with an IEP meeting without a parent present, schools must provide this minimum number of meeting notices.
What is three notices?
To maintain compliance with IDEA, all students receiving special education services must receive this type of intervention daily in their documented areas of disability.
What is daily intensive intervention?
These three words describe the educational right of children with disabilities to receive services at no cost to families.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
This team member serves as a "Local Education Agency Representative" and must be able to commit district resources and understand the general education curriculum.
What is an LEA Representative/Special Education Administrator?
These two digital tools provided by Wheeler County Schools support math expression and reading/writing.
What are Read&Write and Equatio?
When a student with a disability faces removal for weapons, illegal drugs, or serious bodily injury, they can be placed in an alternative setting for this many school days .
What is 45 days?
When grading students with IEPs, teachers cannot include these types of assessments in the final grade, focusing instead only on summative assessments.
What are formative assessments?
Under this law, a student with a disability must be evaluated within this many days once parental consent is obtained.
What is 60 days?
These five letters describe the format for writing effective IEP goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
What is SMART?
These low-tech support tools, including slant boards, sticky notes, and colored overlays, must include training for students on HOW to use them.
What are Low-Tech Assistive Technology Options?
This type of physical intervention is strictly prohibited in Wheeler County Schools, along with chemical restraint and seclusion.
What is mechanical restraint (tying student to furniture)?
This Georgia assessment system is the primary method for evaluating student achievement, with accommodations provided as needed.
What is the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS)?