What is SPED?
Characteristics
Collaboration
Doozies
Anything Goes
100
IDEIA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
100
13
How many disability categories are recognized under IDEIA?
100
Parallel Teaching Station Teaching Teaming
What are three of the six Models of Cooperative or Co-Teaching?
100
90 Days
What is the timeline from receipt of the REFERRAL to PLACEMENT?
100
IEP
What is Individualized Education Program
200
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
200
•communication disorders (speech and language impairments) •specific learning disabilities (including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD]) •mild/moderate mental retardation •emotional or behavioral disorders
What are High Incidence Disability categories?
200
students working together, for one class period to several weeks, to achieve shared learning goals and complete jointly specific tasks and assignments
What is Formal Cooperative Learning?
200
This law signed by President Obama in October 2010, IDEA changed the term “mental retardation” to “intellectual disability.” The definition did not change - only the term.
What is Rosa's Law?
200
Special Educators, General Educators, Student, Parent(s), Agency Representative/LEA Representative, Person Who Can Interpret Assessment Results, Others Who Have Expertise or Knowledge About the Student and (for older students) Transition Specialists/Transition Agency Personnel
What is Members of the IEP Team?
300
Each state education agency is responsible for locating, identifying and evaluating all children, from birth to age 21, residing in the state with disabilities or who are suspected of having disabilities
What is Child Find?
300
Falls under BOTH the low incidence and the high incidence categories
What are Intellectual Disabilities?
300
having students work together to achieve a joint learning goal in temporary, ad-hoc groups that last from a few minutes to one class period
What is Informal Cooperative Learning?
300
REFERRAL...ASSESSMENT....ELIGIBILITY....GOALS...SERVICES...PLACEMENT
What are the steps in the Special Education Process?
300
IDEIA mandates that students with disabilities be educated with children without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate and that students with disabilities be removed to separate classes or schools only when the nature or severity of their disabilities is such that they cannot receive an appropriate education in a general education classroom with supplementary aids and services.
What is LRE or Least Restrictive Environment?
400
Schools must use nonbiased, multi-factored methods of evaluation to determine whether a child has a disability and, if so, whether special education is needed. Testing and evaluation procedures must not discriminate on the basis of race, culture, or native language. All tests must be administered in the child’s native language, and identification and placement decisions cannot be made on the basis of a single test score.
What is Non-Discriminatory Identification and Evaluation?
400
a. Often display a combination of academic, behavioral and social problems. b. Often hard to distinguish from students without disabilities, especially in non-school settings. c. Can meet same standards as students without disabilities when highly structured interventions are put into place.
What are common characteristics of students with High Incidence disabilities?
400
long-term, heterogeneous cooperative learning groups with stable membership
What are Cooperative Learning Base Groups?
400
a. Conceptual skills—language and literacy; money, time, and number concepts; and self-direction b. Social skills—interpersonal skills, social responsibility, self-esteem, gullibility, naïveté (i.e., wariness), social problem solving, and the ability to follow rules, obey laws, and avoid being victimized c. practical skills—activities of daily living (personal care), occupational skills, healthcare, travel/transportation, schedules/routines, safety, use of money, use of the telephone
What are Adaptive Behavior Skills?
400
PLOP
What is Present Level of Performance and one of the required components of the IEP?
500
Schools must educate all children with disabilities. This principle applies regardless of the nature or severity of the disability; no child with disabilities may be excluded from a public education.
What is Zero Reject?
500
“…significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.”
What is an Intellectual Disability?
500
1. Positive Interdependence ?2. Face-To-Face Interaction ?3. Individual Accountability ?4. Social Skills ? 5. Group Processing
What are the Basic Elements of Cooperative Learning?
500
a disorder in 1 or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations...
What is a Specific Learning Disability?
500
begins the formal process of determining eligibility for special education and must be in writing
What is Referral?
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