Name that Acronym
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
12
How many special education categories are there in WI?
FAPE
What is "every child with a disability is entitled to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)"?
15 business days
How many days we have from initial referral to obtaining consent for assessment aka Review of Existing Data?
1975
When was IDEA originally developed?
IEP
Individualized Education Plan
Case Managers
The IEP team member that takes the lead in scheduling, organizing, and leading the IEP process.
Appropriate Evaluation
What is "An appropriate evaluation must be implemented by a team of knowledgeable and trained evaluators."
60 days
What is the time from receipt of consent to assess to the date eligibility is determined?
2004
The last time IDEA was revised
504 plan
What is an education plan that provides only accommodations, not interventions or services?
SDD
What is Significant Developmental Delay?
IEP
This document must include information regarding a student’s present levels of educational performance, annual goals and benchmarking objectives, services and supplementary aids to be received, and a detailed explanation of instances where a student is not participating in the general classroom and why.
What is the amount of time we have from eligibility determination and development of an IEP
Disproportionality
What is disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in specific disability categories that is the result of inappropriate identification.
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
SLI
What is Speech and Language Impairment? Typically the only category case managed by SLPs
LRE
An IEP team must explore a number of alternatives for enabling a student to participate in the general education classroom. These may include: classroom modifications, supplemental aids and services, alternative instructional methods, etc. Identify the students Least Restrictive Environment.
Annually
How often must the IEP team gather to update an IEP?
Child Find
What is a part of IDEA that mandates specific programs to identify students with disabilities?
LEA
What is the Local Educational Agency - typically an administrative person on the IEP team who represents the school district.
Autism
What is Educational Autism?
Medical vs. Educational Autism Eligibility
Parent Participation
Parents have the right to equal participation in this process, and are entitled to notification of a planned evaluation, access to planning and evaluation materials, and involvement in all meetings regarding their child’s placement. Additionally, parents retain the right to refuse further evaluation of their child. Both students and parents must be invited to IEP meetings, and the IDEA explicitly establishes a role for the parent as equal participant and decision maker.
As needed by student progress of need dictate
How often can an IEP be revised?
IDEA in Private Schools & Homeschools
What are "Equitable Services" under IDEA, which provides assessment services, ISP, procedural safeguards, among other services to private schools and homeschools.
SPED
What is Special Education or specifically specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability?
OHI
What is Other Health Impaired?
Procedural Safeguards
The primary purpose of this requirement is twofold: safeguards protect parental access to information pertaining to placement and transition planning; and procedures are put in place to resolve disagreements between parents and schools regarding the placement of a student.
Under the IDEA procedural safeguards, parents have a right to review all educational records pertaining to their child, receive notice prior to meetings about their child’s evaluation, placement, or identification, and to obtain an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE) for consideration at such meetings.
17 years
How long has it been since IDEA was updated?
What is an Individualized Service Plan for private school and homeschooled students?