Who Qualifies
The acronym FAPE stands for this.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education
In Maine, state law grants students the right to have available an educational program from kindergarten through grade 12.
What is True?
Only special educations students have a right to an "appropriate" education. There is no degree of quality mentioned in the law.
For IEP, reevaluation, and transition meetings, parents must receive a notice of meeting at least this many days prior to the meeting.
What is 7?
For children ages 5-20, measurable annual goals must be aligned with this.
What is Maine's Learning Results
A statement of present level of academic performance must be included in each IEP even if there are no academic needs identified. Information in these present levels are taken from this.
What is baseline data?
The IDEA defines "child with a disability" has having two components.
What are "at least one disability" and as a result of that disability, the child "must need special education and related services".
If a child does not meet all of the goals on his/her IEP, then the school has denied that child FAPE.
What is FALSE?
There is no commitment that the goals in the IEP will be met. The Supreme Court wrote that providing special education "is not guaranteed to produce any particular outcome".
Transition planning must begin no later than this grade.
What is 9th grade?
Transition planning may begin when a child is age 14.
PLOPS
What is "Present Levels of Performance"
List 3 of the 5 requirements for a measurable goal.
What are by date, given service, child's name, skill to be mastered, by evidence?
Name 2 out of 6 areas in Maine's definition of functional performance.
What are cognition, communication, motor, adaptive, social/emotional, and sensory areas?
IEP teams should consider a child's capabilities and potentialities in order to make a reasonable calculation in the development of goals.
What is TRUE?
After receiving a parent's written consent to evaluate, evaluations must be completed and submitted no later than this number of school days.
What is 40 school days?
The reason for this is to address the unique needs of the child that result from the child's disability and to ensure access to the general curriculum.
What is specially designed instruction?
Functional skill deficits are identified based on this.
What are formal or informal evaluations, functional performance and observation, and formative and summative assessments.
This eligibility area states that the student must have a problem that results in "limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli".
What is Other Health Impaired
Appropriate programming is based on whether the child is catching up with his/her peers.
What is FALSE?
Appropriate programming should always be based on an individualized assessment of the child.
Parents must receive evaluation reports at least this many days before a scheduled meeting.
What is 3?
The two Acts that outline procedures for protecting the confidentiality of student records are these.
What are the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
The need for Extended School Year is based on these two criteria.
What are significant regression and extensive time to recoup skills?
A child can be dismissed from special education when who determines that s/he no longer qualifies?
Who is the IEP Team?
The IEP team must reconvene at least annually to review the IEP.
What is TRUE?
Parents must receive a completed IEP within this many school days after the IEP Team Meeting.
What is 21 school days?
Name the four mandatory members of the IEP Team.
What are: the parent, a regular education teacher, a special education teacher (or TOD), and someone from the school's administrative unit
The areas of transition that are to be addressed with measurable goals
What are education/training, employment, independent living?