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What are the NCA school Expectations
a short, personalized story that uses descriptive language and visuals to explain a specific social situation to a child, often focusing on social skills and behaviors.
What is a Social Story?
A place where students can go to self-regulate, cope with overstimulation or stress, prepare to return to learning, and develop sensory integration skills.
What is a Sensory Room.
This author wrote the novel 1984, a dystopian story about a totalitarian regime that uses surveillance to control citizens.
Who is George Orwell?
This part of the IEP defines what the student is expected to achieve in a certain time frame.
What are Goals?
80% to 90% of students fall into this Intervention Level
What are Tier 1 Universal Interventions
A tiered framework that helps schools provide targeted support to students with academic, behavioral, or social-emotional needs
What is MTSS? Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
a framework designed to teach self-regulation by helping individuals recognize and manage their emotions, sensory needs, and impulses. It was created by Leah Kuypers, an occupational therapist.
What is Zones of Regulation?
This planet is known for its prominent rings made of ice and rock.
What is Saturn?
These are services that are provided to help the student reach their IEP goals.
What are Related Services? (Speech, Therapy, Counseling, OT, etc)
What is a Behavior Plan?
a program that is designed to help your organization identify, prevent, and de-escalate crises. commonly used to help children understand and manage social situations, particularly those who may find it challenging, like children with autism or other developmental differences.
What is Crisis Prevention and Intervention (CPI)?
is a federal law protecting the privacy of students' educational records. It grants parents (and students aged 18 or older) the right to access their education records and to control the disclosure of personally identifiable information within those records
What is FERPA? Family Education Rights and Privacy Act.
This economic system is based on private ownership and free markets, where supply and demand determine prices.
What is capitalism?
This is the term used to describe the level of involvement a student has in the general education classroom.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
A web-based decision-making system that allows for entry of behavior and discipline referrals.
What is SWIS?
a tool used to help students process and understand their behavior, learning experiences, or other relevant aspects of their academic or personal lives. It's often used as a behavior management tool, but can also be used for self-assessment, goal-setting, and general learning.
What is a student Reflection Sheet?
federal law that ensures educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. Guarantee equal access to public education for students who are homeless, without barriers due to their housing situation.
This is the name of a triangle that has two equal sides and two equal angles.
What is an isosceles triangle?
This is the maximum amount of time a student’s IEP must be reviewed and updated.
What is Annually?
highly individualized interventions and are used with students who exhibit the most significant, severe challenging behavior. Usually 3 to 5 percent of a school's population.
What are PBIS Tier 3 (Targeted Intensive Interventions)?
a behavioral modification technique where individuals earn reinforcers for engaging in desired behaviors, and these reinforcers can be exchanged for other reinforcers (desired items) or privileges.
What is a Token Economy System?
Trigger Phase, Escalation Phase, Crisis Phase, De-escalation or Recovery Phase, Post Crisis Phase
What are the Stages of Emotional Regulation or the Crisis Cycle?
This exercise method involves alternating between periods of high-intensity exercise and low-intensity recovery and is often used to improve cardiovascular fitness.
What is High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)?
This option allows parents to resolve issues with the school without going to court.
What is Mediation?