Vocabulary
teachers provide successive levels of temporary support that help students reach higher levels of comprehension and skill acquisition that they would not be able to achieve without assistance.
What is scaffolding?
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave.
What is autism?.
A student whose primary language is not English
What is an ELL student?
omputer-based test that adapts to the examinee's ability level.
What is adapted testing?
Helps bridge the gap between decoding words. Receiving information both visually and audibly reinforces word recognition, improves fluency, builds vocabulary and supports the development of comprehension skills.
What are audio books?
Visual, tactile or verbal cues provided to students by students
Prompts
A learning disability which affects skills involved in reading, spelling and writing. Children with this condition will have normal intelligence and normal vision.
What is dyslexia?
Anxiety. mind and body's reaction to stressful, dangerous, or unfamiliar situations.
Anxiety.
cushions give kids enough movement and stimulation to help maximize their focus without having to get up and walk around. A standing desk, slanted cushion, or balance ball chair are other helpful options.
What is flexible seating?
Allows students to have information read aloud to them (assists students with visual impairments, ADHD)
What is text-to-speech?
Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.
what is cooperative learning?
A disorder that includes difficulty staying focused and paying attention, controlling behavior and hyperactivity.
What is ADHD?
A classroom where everyone feels included, cared for and heard.
What is a safe and inclusive classroom?
Wristwatches, hourglass timers, and apps can help kids who have trouble with pacing.
What are timers?
Allow students to verbalize their thoughts and allow the computer to type for them.
What is speech-to-text?
An Individualized Education Program is a legal document under United States law that is developed for each public school child in the U.S. who needs special education.
what is an individualized education plan?
patients have difficulty processing sounds. Individuals with APD may confuse the order of sounds or be unable to filter different sounds, the brain misinterprets the information received and processed from the ear.
What is Auditory processing disorder?
Diversity is a word that describes the variety of differences among people and groups in society, such as race, culture, gender, religion, and more.
Diversity
Providing students additional time to complete a task.
What is extended time?
tools that help people express themselves without speech
What is a communication board?
Inclusion in education refers to all students being able to access and gain equal opportunities to education and learning.
difficulties in decoding nonverbal behaviors or social cues.
What are nonverbal learning disabilities?
What is building relationships?
Providing students with fewer or a smaller amount of problems to complete and focus on.
What is modified work?
A device to assist children who are hard of hearing
What are hearing aids?