OI stands for this.
What is orthopedic impairment?
FAPE stands for this.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
RtI is part of this overarching intervention system.
What is MTSS?
Something you can observe and operationally define.
What is behavior?
Changes teachers make to how students access curriculum and complete assignments.
What are accommodations?
Significant limitations in intellectual ability (IQ 70 or below) and adaptive behaviors.
What is Intellectual Disability (ID)?
Law that ensures that students with disabilities receive special education and related services.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)?
The academic intervention side of MTSS.
What is Response to Intervention or RtI?
Tier 2 Intervention for students with behavior concerns.
What is Check In Check Out or CICO?
Changes teachers make to what students are required to learn or produce.
What are modifications?
The inability or limited ability to receive information visually.
What is Visual Impairment or VI?
This law that protects individuals with disabilities from discrimination and requires building and transportation accessibility and reasonable accommodations in the workplace.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The behavior intervention side of MTSS.
What is Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports or PBIS?
Process of gathering detailed data on a student’s behavior and the context in which it occurs for the purpose of determining the reasons for it and creating a behavior intervention plan.
What is a Functional Behavior Analysis or FBA?
Technology applications designed to help students with disabilities learn, communicate, and otherwise function more independently.
What is assistive technology or AT?
The inability or a limited ability to receive information auditorily such that it interferes with learning.
What is Deaf or Hard of Hearing or D/HH?
Students with disabilities attend public schools and receive the educational services that have been designed address their unique needs, at no cost to parents.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education or FAPE?
Assessment characterized by a research base establishing its technical adequacy as well as standardized measurement tasks that are fluency based.
What is Curriculum Based Measurement or CBMs?
A detailed strategy, developed on the basis of a functional behavior assessment, to address significant behavior problems being experienced by a student with a disability.
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan or BIP?
Ways other than speech to send a message to another individual, including nonaided 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 Augmented Alternative Communication or AAC?
Lacking social responsiveness from a very early age, has a high need for structure and routines, and demonstrates significant language impairments; interferes with learning.
What is Autism or AUT or ASD?
Students with disabilities must be educated in the educational setting most like that for students without disabilities.
What is Least Restrictive Environment or LRE?
Team who assess a student’s individual needs and determines eligibility for special education.
What is a Multi-disciplinary Team or MDT?
Extraordinary stress that has a negative impact on students’ health and well-being, including their capacity to learn.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs?
Form of instruction that meets students’ diverse needs by providing materials and tasks of varied levels of difficulty, with varying degrees of support, through multiple instructional groups and time variations.
What is differentiated instruction?