Exceptional Minds
What term describes differences between a student's own areas of strength and difficulty?
Intra-indiviual differences
What federal law guarantees eligible students with disabilities a free appropriate public education?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
This term describes providing developmental supports and services to young children as early as possible?
Early Intervention
What is a change in HOW a student learns or demonstrates knowledge without changing the learning expectations?
Accomodation
A teacher gives a student with dyslexia an audiobook covering the same required chapter. Is this an accommodation or a modification?
Accomodation
What model explains how information is received, attended to, processed, and used to produce a response?
Information Processing Model
What does FAPE stand for?
Free Appropriate Public Education
What approach emphasizes family strengths, priorities, cultural values, and meaningful participation in educational decisions?
family-centered approach
What is a change in WHAT a student is expected to learn or the level of learning required?
Modification
A child covers their ears when the fire alarm sounds because the noise feels overwhelming. What type of sensory response is illustrated?
Hyperreactivity / Hypersensitivity
What everyday skills are evaluated alongside intellectual functioning when identifying intellectual disability?
adaptive behavior skills
What educational document includes a student's present levels of performance, measurable annual goals, and required special education services?
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
What term describes familiar everyday settings, such as homes, playgrounds, and child-care environments, where early intervention services may occur?
natural environments
What three-tiered framework provides universal, targeted, and intensive supports based on students' needs?
Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS)
: When told to stop playing, a child screams. The teacher allows the child to continue playing. In the ABC model, what is the consequence?
Being allowed to continue playing
What learning disability involves difficulties with word recognition, decoding, spelling, and reading fluency
Dyslexia
What plan provides accommodations to remove disability-related barriers for eligible students who do not necessarily require special education?
504 Plan
What individualized plan is used for eligible infants and toddlers from birth through age two and includes family priorities and concerns?
Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
What educational framework emphasizes multiple ways of engaging students, presenting information, and allowing students to demonstrate learning?
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
A student repeatedly struggles with an assignment and eventually stops trying, even when help is available. What psychological concept might explain this response?
Learned Helplessness
What autism-related concept describes understanding that other people can have thoughts, beliefs, and perspectives different from our own?
Theory of Mind
What standard requires schools to educate students with disabilities alongside their nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate?
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
What are the five major developmental domains assessed when identifying developmental delays?
Cognitive, communication, social-emotional, motor, and adaptive development
What stage of learning occurs when a student independently applies a previously learned skill in a different setting or situation?
Generalization
A student struggles academically, but the teacher suspects limited English proficiency may be a contributing factor. Name at least one thing the educational team should consider before identifying a learning disability?
The student's language background, culturally and linguistically appropriate assessments, and multiple sources of academic performance data