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WHAT IS SPECIAL EDUCATION?
involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
WHAT IS INCLUSION?
Inclusion is a philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community
WHAT DOES LRE STAND FOR?
LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT
__________ teachers provide individualized remedial instruction related to specific skills (e.g., note taking, study skills, and so on) and provide supplemental content area instruction that supports and parallels the instruction given in the general education classroom.
RESOURCE ROOM
A m____________ composed of professionals and family members, with the student when appropriate, makes important decisions concerning the edu-cation of students
MULTI DISCIPLINARY TEAM
ARE FAMILIES ENTITLED TO A TRANSLATOR AT AN IEP MEETING?
YES
DO PARENTS HAVE TO ATTEND AN IEP MEETING
NO, BUT YOU MUST BE ABLE TO PROVE THAT SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS WERE MADE TO CONTACT THEM.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO DIFFERENTIATE FOR EVERY LESSON.
FALSE, YOU SHOULD DIFFERENTIATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
PRESCHOOL STUDENTS CAN HAVE IEPS. TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
_______ device is defined as any item, piece of equipment, or prod-uct system—whether bought, modified, or customized—that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
assistive technology
An________ is any service that directly assists an individual with a disability to select, acquire, or use an assistive technology device, including physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
assistive technology service
DEFINE: Specific learning disability
A specific learning disability as a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may appear as an impaired ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
Effective _____ education programs employ both the native and the new language and culture of students to teach them.
bilingual
During this stage, many English language learners may go through a _________ in which they try to learn by listening to words intently in order to process what they hear but refrain from verbalizing and attempt to communicate via gestures and drawings.
silent period
DEFINE: curriculum compacting
Involves using pre assessment and differentiation to allow students who demonstrate mastery at the beginning of a unit of study to work on new and more challenging material or student-selected topics via alternate learning activities.
DEFINE: problem-based learning
Discovery and problem-based learning approaches can allow students to work on complex open-ended problems and issues that have multifaceted solutions.
LOW INCIDENCE BEHAVIORS ARE...
Students with physical, sensory, and multiple and significant cognitive disabilities are sometimes referred to as having low-incidence disabilities.
Receptive language refers....
to the ability to understand spoken language. Students with receptive language problems may have difficulty following directions and understanding content presented orally.
Articulation disorders are...
motoric difficulties that result in omissions (e.g., the student says ird instead of bird), substitutions (the student says wove instead of love), distortions (the student may distort a sound so that it sounds like another sound), and additions (the student says ruhace for race).
Some students with __________ also may have pragmatic difficulties, causing them to have problems understanding and following the rules that guide communication and language usage
language disorders
DEFINE: wraparound process
a multidisciplinary, interagency, strength-based, and student- and family-focused process for collaboratively designing and delivering individualized, culturally sensitive, school- and community-based educational, counseling, medical, and vocational services to identify and address the unique strengths, challenges, and behaviors of students and their families
________ are those practices that provide equal access and do not (1) serve as a direct threat to the health/safety of others; (2) cause a financial or administrative burden to school districts; (3) substantially change an essential element of the curriculum, activity, service, or assessment; or (4) substantially alter the way in which the services or activities are delivered.
Reasonable accommodations
A statement of the student’s ________ which provides a summary of the student’s current academic, socialization, behavioral, communication, and functional skills
present levels of performance
DEFINE AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
A type of assessment where students work on meaningful, complex, relevant, open-ended learning activities that reveal their ability to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned to contextualized problems and real-life settings.
DEFINE COLLABORATIVE CONSULTATION
A process involving professionals working together to solve problems and implement mutually agreed-on solutions to prevent and address students’ learning and behavioral difficulties and to coordinate instructional programs.