Special Education Timelines
A reevaluation for a student must be completed every ____ years
What is: 3 years
What is the name of the notice that schools must provide to the parents of a child with a disability that outlines a proposal or refusal to initiate or change the identification, evaluation, or educational placement of the child, or the provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to the child?
What is a Prior Written Notice
What is the full name of the DAS-II cognitive assessment?
Differential Ability Scales-II
...means significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently [at the same time] with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Intellectual Disability.
How many tiers are there within MTSS?
What is 3
Once parental signed informed consent is received for an evaluation, how many days does the school have to complete an evaluation?
What is 60 calendar days from the date the school received informed written consent from the parent
What federal legislation was originally passed in 1975, and reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
What are the five composite areas on the WISC-V?
What is: Verbal Comprehension (VCI), Visual Spatial Index (VSI), Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI), Working Memory Index (WMI), and Processing Speed Index (PSI).
…means a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance: (a) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors. (b) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers. (c) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances. (d) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression. (e) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems. The term includes schizophrenia.
What is Emotional Disturbance.
What is the name of the assessment that is typically brief, reliable, and valid? They are conducted with all students typically three times per year.
What is: Universal screening assessments
If the parent requests an evaluation how many days does the school district have to begin the evaluation by reviewing existing data, or provide prior written notice refusing to conduct the requested evaluation?
What is 15 school days from the date it receives a parent's written request for an evaluation
What must be held if a student is removed for more than 10 consecutive school days or is subjected to a series of removals that constitute a pattern?
What is Manifestation Determination
How many subtests contribute to the FSIQ on the WISC-V?
What is seven subtests
…means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. Other characteristics often associated are engaging in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
What is Autism.
Name three essential components of MTSS
What is Multi-level Prevention System (3 Tiers)
Universal screening
Progress Monitoring
Data-based decision making
How long does a school have to develop an IEP after a student’s multidisciplinary evaluation team (MET) determines the student is eligibility for special education instruction and services?
What is within 30 calendar days
What is the IDEA term for to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in preschool, public or private institutions, or other care facilities, are educated with children who are not disabled
Least Restrictive Environment
In order to reduce measurement error, how many WISC-V FSIQ subtest substitutions are allowed?
What is one substitution
…means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that— (a) is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome.
What is Other Health Impairment.
A strong tier 1 will meet the needs of _____ students.
What is approximately 80% of the student population
If a parent requests in writing for the IEP team to reconvene to review his/her child’s IEP, what is the required timeframe?
What is within 45 school days
Which Supreme Court case decision prohibited the use of standardized intelligence quotient (IQ) tests to assess African American children in California for special education.
What is Larry P. v. Riles
What two cognitive theories does the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition (KABC-2) align?
What is the Catell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) and the Luria (PASS) model.
…a severe impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (e.g.,cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
What is Orthopedic Impairment.
What was the first state to call its model MTSS?
Kansas (2010)