Special Education Law
Written to correlate with No Child Left Behind Act (i.e., schools are held accountable for the success of students with disabilities; short-term objectives were eliminated from IEPs)
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004?
Provided leadership for inclusion
Who is an administrator?
A collaborative data-based decision making process for establishing and implementing instructional and behavioral strategies and services to support the learning and positive behavior of all students
What is a Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports?
Before planning instructional activities, first determine the assessment that will be used to evaluate students' learning and then use them as a guide for designing and sequencing the instructional activities.
What is backward design?
Analyzing critical features of new environment
Encouraged early intervention for children who are at risk
What is the Infants and Toddlers Disability Act of 1986?
Offers information on the student's strengths and challenges in the general education environment
Who is the general education teacher?
Students collect data on their own behavior
What is self-monitoring?
An assessment used at the end of instruction to assess students' mastery
What is summative assessment?
An individual’s ability to identify and take actions to achieve one’s goals in life
What is self-determination?
Intended to open schools to all students with disabilities so they could “benefit” from special education
What is the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975?
Assists with daily living skills, recording behavior, and supervising students
Who is a paraeducator?
Rewards for the whole class are based on the behavior of selected students.
What is a dependent group system?
Giving students assignments in the same areas of their peers but at a different difficulty level
What is multilevel teaching?
Provides ongoing support and services as part of employment
What is supported employment?
Ensures physical access to all public facilities, provides transportation access, provides telecommunications access, and requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities
Serves as liaison between home, school, and community service agencies
Who is a social worker?
Introducing a new stimulus to recapture student’s attention
What is redirection?
What is an accommodation?
ITP
What is an Individualized Transition Plan?
Greater access to the general education, allowing for special education to take place in a variety of settings, sought to strengthen role of families, and intended “to meet the unique needs of the student” through individualized instruction and/or providing “related services”
What is IDEA Amendments of 1997?
May counsel students and their families
Who is a school counselor?
An observer measures how long a behavior lasts
What is duration recording?
Text scanners, line guides, text reading programs, optical aids
What are assistive technology devices?
CALP
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency?