Special Ed. Law and Eligibility
This federal law is the primary legislation governing special education services in schools and was most recently updated in 2004.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
The first person(s) most likely to initiate the special education process by expressing concern or requesting a screening.
Who is a parent or teacher?
Every Evaluation Report or Reevaluation Report must include at least this many classroom observations
What is one classroom observation?
These four people are the minimum required team members for a speech-only IEP meeting.
Who are the parent, regular education teacher, SLP, and LEA representative?
These types of assessments are not used during a school screening.
What are standardized assessments?
Students must demonstrate these three things to qualify for special education services
After a Permission to Evaluate is signed, schools generally have this many days to complete the evaluation and issue the report.
What is 60 days?
This model requires assessment data from four different sources to support eligibility decisions.
What is the Four Quadrant Model?
The implementation date for an IEP should typically be this long after the meeting date.
What is one day?
When evaluating multilingual students, schools should collaborate closely with this educational professional to better understand the student's language-learning history and performance.
Who is the ESL teacher (or English Language Development teacher)?
This federal mandate requires schools to identify, locate, and evaluate children who may need special education services.
What is ChildFind?
Following the Evaluation Report, schools have this many days to write the IEP and hold the IEP meeting.
What is 30 days?
If a speech or language area is suspected to be deficient, this minimum number of assessments should be completed within that area.
What is two assessments?
An IEP duration date is generally set this many days after the meeting date.
What is 364 days (one year minus one day)?
To qualify a multilingual student for speech-language services, deficits should be documented in this language.
What is the student's primary language?
This educational classification is often associated with ADHD, epilepsy, diabetes, and Tourette syndrome.
What is Other Health Impairment (OHI)?
If the team agrees to services, this occurs the day after the IEP meeting.
What is implementation of services (the student begins receiving services)?
This type of assessment does not involve standardized protocols and does not yield standardized scores or percentile ranks, but it can still give important quantitative data that can later be used for goal baselines
What are informal assessments?
Every goal should have this information reported in the Present Levels section before the goal is written.
What is a baseline?
A multilingual student quickly learns and retains a new language skill after teaching during dynamic assessment. This suggests the difficulty is more likely related to this factor rather than a disorder.
What is second-language acquisition/English language learning (ESL)?
This law allows schools to provide accommodations for students with disabilities but does not typically involve specially designed instruction.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
Reevaluations are required at least this often for students who are not identified with or suspected of having an Intellectual Disability.
What is every 3 years?
This type of assessment is particularly important when evaluating multilingual learners because it examines the student's ability to learn and retain new skills after teaching.
What is dynamic assessment?
These types of scores should NOT be included in the Present Levels of Performance section.
What are standard scores, scaled scores, percentile ranks, and test names?
In MTSS/RTII, this tier represents intensive intervention for approximately 5–10% of students.
What is Tier 3?