It's The Law!
Federal statute that provides the rules for special education.
What is the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
These services or supports provided to assist students in successfully accessing the general education curriculum do not change the learning objective or assignment expected.
What are accommodations?
Three-tiered systems approach for creating a positive social culture and developing individualized behavioral supports.
What is positive behavioral supports (PBS)?
A multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs that begins with universal screening of all students in general education.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)
A written plan/program developed by a special education team with input from the parents that specifies the student's academic goals and methods to obtain the goals.
What is an individualized education plan (IEP)?
Term for providing students with special education and related services at public expense.
What is free appropriate public education (FAPE)?
These services or supports provided to assist students in successfully accessing the general education curriculum result in changes to the content expectation or the performance outcome.
What are modifications?
An assessment that describes a targeted behavior and identifies environmental antecedents that maintain that behavior.
What is a functional behavior assessment (FBA)?
An umbrella term that encompasses response to intervention, student support team, and positive behavioral interventions and supports.
What is multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS)?
This person coordinates the IEP team meeting as well as the writing and implementation of the IEP.
Who is the special education teacher?
Children with disabilities are educated with children who do not have disabilities to the maximum extent possible.
What is least restrictive environment (LRE)?
The practice of including instruction on strategies and skills that can help students succeed across classes.
What is curricular augmentation?
This uses a step-by-step process to outline changes to antecedents, consequences, and replacement behaviors.
What is a behavior intervention plan (BIP)?
The RTI tier in which all students are taught using instructional methods that research has shown to be effective.
What is tier 1?
Speech/language therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy are examples of these.
What are related services?
This federal statute provides protections to persons with ANY disability, not just those recognized under IDEA.
What is section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
Practices that are proven through scientifically based research to be effective in ensuring that instruction will yield learning.
What are evidence-based practices (EBPs)?
These occur before, and have a direct influence on inappropriate behaviors.
What are antecedents?
At this level, students receive individualized, intensive interventions that target the students' skill deficits for the remediation of existing problems and the prevention of more severe problems.
What is RTI tier 3?
This person is responsible for implementing accommodations as outlined in the IEP in the general education setting.
Who is the general education teacher?
Parents have the right to this, if they believe the school district is not providing a free appropriate public education to their child or if they disagree with the district's findings and recommendations.
What is a due process hearing?
Framework for designing instruction from the planning stages with all learners in mind and is applied to the creation of lessons, instruction, and assessment.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
Inappropriate behaviors selected for a behavior intervention plan must be these two things.
What are observable and measurable?
The next step to pursue when intensive interventions do not result in improved student performance.
What is a referral for evaluation (to determine possible eligibility for special education services)?
A meeting held at least once per year to review the IEP and make changes as needed.
What is an annual review?