Acronyms
Government Agency that protects Americans from health, safety and security threats and provider of the Learn the Signs Act Early that include developmental milestone lists.
What is CDC (Center for Disease Control)?
An assessment that is based on mastery of specific skills.
What is Criterion-Referenced Assessment?
Including children with diverse abilities into regular neighborhood activities, schools and classrooms.
What is inclusion?
Label used to alleviate mislabeling of young children ages birth through 9 under IDEA.
What is Developmental Delay?
For school-aged children with disabilities. The part of the federal law that is the foundation upon which special education and related services rest.
What is Part B?
A professional association of educators dedicated to advancing the success of children with exceptionalities through advocacy, standards, and professional development.
What is CEC (Council for Exceptional Children)?
Measures that are administered and scored in a consistent or standard way each time they are given. Developed based on standardized norms.
What is Norm-Referenced Assessment?
Systematically building on child's experiences and knowledge as they are learning new skills.
What is scaffolding?
Serves infants and toddlers from birth to age three with developmental delays or disabilities by assessing the child's development and design learning environments that promote the child’s development.
What is Developmental Therapist
The federal grant program for infants and toddlers with disabilities that assists states in operating a comprehensive statewide program of early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities, ages birth through age 2 years, and their families.
What is Part C?
A teaching approach that encompasses child development and learning, the child as an individual and their social and cultural environment.
What is DAP (Developmentally Appropriate Practice)?
A dynamic assessment approach that involves observation of a child during guided play.
What is Play Based Assessment?
Practices that increase the family’s power to make their own decisions and act in accordance with their decisions.
What is Family-Centered Practice?
Major indexes of development identified across developmental areas and across years.
A mandate within the Individual with Disabilities Education Act mandating all school districts identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities. This action is to occur regardless of the severity of the children’s disabilities.
What is Child-Find and IDEA 2004?
An environment where, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities are education with children who do not have disabilities
What is LRE (least restrictive environment)?
Focused on collecting observations in the child’s natural environment. Teacher uses actual classroom experiences, activities, and products to evaluate the child's skills, knowledge, and behaviors.
What is Authentic Performance Assessment?
An instructional strategy, intervention, or teaching program where methods used are based on significant and reliable evidence derived from research.
What is Evidenced-Based Practice?
Cognitive, social, language, fine or gross motor skills.
What is a Developmental Domain?
A team of specialized professionals who provide assessment and intervention, specific to their specialty area, independent of the other.
A professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research.
What is NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children)?
Measures that are administered and scored in a consistent or standard way each time they are given. Developed based on standardized norms.
What is Standardized Achievement Test?
A family centered perspective that recognizes differences in cultures.
What is cultural diversity and sensitivity.
The area between what a child cannot do and what they can do unaided; in other words, what children can do with adult guidance.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
A system of coordinated services that promote the child’s age-appropriate growth and development and supports families during the critical early years.
What is Early Intervention Services?