Chapter 1 Terms
Created by Judy Singer as another way to describe living with Autism.
What is Neuro-divergent?
Developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a Childs educational performance
1990: Congress ensured a "Free and appropriate education" in the "least restrictive environment" for all students, including those with disabilities
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA?
Specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meat the unique needs of a child with a disability.
What is Special Education?
Developed a training program for music educators working with children with disabilities in regular education settings.
What is the National Association for Music Education, or NAfME?
Reflects natural human variation.
What is Neurodiversity?
Concomitant hearing and visual impairments
What is Deaf-blindness?
1954: Decision that is associated with ending racial segregation, establishing the right for all children to equal access to public elementary and high school education.
What is the Brown vs. Board of Education case?
May be used to describe a change in the curriculum or measurement of learning, like reducing the number of assignments, or an alternate grading system.
What is a Modification?
A student will do well in school if there is a sense of these four things.
What is Belonging, Gaining Power, Having Fun, and Being Free?
Used in the broadest sense to honor and respect that all people have different neurocognitive functioning
What is neuro-inclusive?
An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
What is an Emotional Disturbance?
1990: Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA?
A person who has physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.
What is a disability?
Presenting a single concept in a variety of ways
What is Multimodal and multisensory presentation?
A chromosomal Abnormality where an individual has an extra chromosome, making three of a kind, called a trisomy
What is Down syndrome?
An impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a Childs educational performance
What is a Visual impairment including blindness?
2002: Had a major impact on the performance and accountability of all schools nationwide. Under this law, students with disabilities must have access to the same tests and Regents Exams as general education students.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB?
Required by the IDEA act for public school systems to develop an individualized plan for students who require special education and related services for their education.
What is an Individualized Education Program or IEP?
The AEIOUs of teaching music to diverse learners.
What is Assurance, Esteem, Interaction, Opportunity, Understanding, and You?
A serious marked disability in arithmetic skills that requires modifications like extended time, use of a calculator, and revised test formats.
What is Dyscalculia-Mathematics Disorder?
Concomitant impairments, the combination of which causes severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in a special education program solely for one of the impairments.
What is Multiple Disabilities?
1965: created 8 separate titles to establish federal funding to schools in need of improving academic development as a means for students to escape the cycle of poverty.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA?
Developed for a student who needs additional support to make progress on their IEP
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan, or IEP?
A way to help improve ear and eye coordination suing different signals?
What are Color Signals and Sound Signals?