Providing Academic and Behavioral Supports
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of children with disabilities.
What is Assistive Technology?
What is the decision about whether a student’s performance differs enough from that of his or her peers to merit changes in instruction, or, eventually, more in-depth assessments to determine the presence of a disability?
What is screening?
The amount of time that students are meaningfully and successfully engaged in academic activities in school.
What is Academic Learning Time?
A condition in which an individual experiences a significant trauma to the head from an accident, illness, or injury that affects learning.
What is traumatic brain injury?
A strategy used for determining how much background information students have about a topic.
Allowing students to lay on the floor with a clipboard to complete an assignment is an example of what strategy?
What is choice in body positioning?
What is the method of measuring students’ levels of achievement in terms of what they are taught in the classroom?
What is Curriculum-Based Assessment?
A classroom grouping arrangement in which all students needing instruction on a particular skill are clustered for that instruction.
What is Same-Skill Grouping?
A condition in which an individual lacks social responsiveness from a very early age, has high need for structure and routines, and demonstrates significant language impairments.
What is Autism?
A series of statements, some of which may not be true, related to material that is about to be presented during instruction, given to students as a way of activating their knowledge by making predictions about a topic.
What are Anticipated Guides?
Name 2 Instructional Adaptations or changes in instruction to help support students.
What is change the materials, present a limited amount of information on the page, make things concrete, preteach, and/or teach organizational skills to everyone?
What are quick and easy measures of student performance in the basic skill areas of reading, math, and written expression?
What are probes?
A variety of teaching and learning strategies that are necessary to meet the range of needs evident in any given classroom.
The most prevalent type of biologically caused cognitive disability, caused by the failure of one par of chromosomes to separate at conception
What is Downs Syndrome?
A specific type of graphic organizer used to present vocabulary words that includes definitions and characteristics.
What are Concept Diagrams?
Name 2 Environmental adaptations or changes to the classroom environment that can assist in student success.
What is use movement, use a timer, use engaging transitions, and/or use anchor activities?
What is the setting in which a student’s special education services take place? I.E.: a general education classroom, resource room, or separate special education classroom.
What is Program Placement?
A researched-based instructional approach in which the teacher presents subject matter using a review of previously taught information, presentation of new concepts or skills, guided practice, feedback and correction, independent student practice, and frequent review.
What is Direct Instruction?
Ways other than speech to send a message to another individual, including non-aided communication such as using sign language or gestures and facial expressions and aided communication such as using computers or other simple or complex devices as communication tools.
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
Written products used during instruction such as textbooks, handouts, and tests that clearly tie ideas together, enabling students to understand them more readily.
What is Clear Written Communication?
This approach emphasized using collaborative teaming and problem-solving process to create supports, programs, and other interventions to provide effective educational programming and create a supportive environment.
What is Positive Behavior Support?
What is the decision of whether a student’s special education program should be terminated, continued as is, or modified based on the ability to meet standards?
What is Program Evaluation?
The instructional approach for teaching higher-order thinking skills in which the teacher supports student learning by reviewing the cognitive strategy to be addressed, regulating difficulty during practice, providing varying contexts for student practice, providing feedback, increasing student responsibility for learning, and creating opportunities for independent student practice.
What is Scaffolding?
Any of the less common disabilities outlined in IDEA, including multiple disabilities, hearing impairments, orthopedic impairments, other health impairments, visual impairments, deaf-blindness, autism, and traumatic brain injury.
What is low-incidence disability?
An assessment procedure, often used for students with moderate or severe disabilities, designed to find out what adaptations or supports are needed to increase student participation in classroom and community environments.
What is Environmental Inventory?