This seeks to provide opportunities, social interactions, and experiences that parallel those of society to adults and children with disabilities.
Normalization
These include such disability categories as learning disabilities, mild emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders and speech/language disorders
High incidence disabilities
Strategy where teachers work together to educate all students in an inclusive classroom.
Co-teaching
This is a person-centered, multi-method problem-solving process that involves gathering information to measure student behaviors and determine why, where, and when a student uses those behaviors.
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
This relates to taking actions as a result of external consequences, such as tangible rewards and approval from others.
Extrinsic Motivation
This called on schools to restructure and coordinate their efforts and programs to help all students-including those with disabilities- have access to and succeed in the general education curriculum to meet specific learning standards.
The No Child left Behind Act (NCLB)
These disabilities include students with physical, sensory, and more significant cognitive disabilities.
Low-incidence disabilities
This involves teachers working together to solve problems and implement mutually agreed-on solutions to prevent and address learning and behavioral difficulties.
Collaborative consultation
This is a narrative of the events that took place during the observation of a student.
Anecdotal Recording
This refers to taking actions as a result of internally based consequences and is viewed as a high level of motivation.
Intrinsic Motivation
This requires schools to educate students with disabilities with their peers who do not have disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate.
Least Restrictive Environment
This is 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, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
Specific learning disability
This is the term for a logical relationship among the curriculum, learning goals, teaching materials, strategies used in the inclusive classroom, and supportive services programs.
Congruence
This focuses on the use of research- and function-based interventions designed to address a student's learning and behavior by changing the classroom environment to better accommodate the student's characteristics, strengths, interests, relationships, and cultural/language background challenges.
A behavioral intervention plan
Anticipatory Set
This provides a summary of a student's current academic, socialization, behavioral, communication, and functional skills.
Present levels of performance
This relates to the degree of skill in speaking the language and includes receptive and expressive language skills.
Language proficiency
Type of assessment that involves analyzing the critical features of the learning environment and the key skills that affect student academic, behavioral, and social performance.
Ecological Assessment
Relates to a teacher's use of assessment strategies during instruction to monitor students' learning progress.
Formative Assessment
This is the awareness of sound.
Phonological Awareness
This is an example of a person-centered planning and strength-based assessment strategy that many teams use.
Map Action Planning System (MAPS)
This seeks to help educators acknowledge and understand the increasing diversity in society and in the classroom and to see their students' diverse background as assets that can support teaching/student learning.
Multicultural education
Term for the transfer of training so students use the skills a teacher has taught them independently in their inclusive classrooms.
Generalization
These are assessments administered at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content, topics, and concepts and skills taught and to report student achievement.
Summative Assessment
The processing and manipulation of the different sounds that make up words and the understanding that spoken/written language are linked.
Phonemic Awareness