Definitions
I.D.E.A.
Section 504
Ability Grouping
Technology
100
What does I.D.E.A. stand for?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
100
This law ensures students with disabilities receive free and appropriate public education.
What is IDEA?
100
This document (which differs from an I.E.P.) provides accommodations to students with disabilities who can access the general education curriculum with adjustments.
What is a 504 Plan?
100
This term refers to the practice of placing students into groups based on their academic ability.
What is ability grouping?
100
The IDEA defines this as 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 the functional capabilities of a child with a disability.
What is assistive technology?
200
What does UDL stand for?
Universal Design for Learning
200
IDEA requires schools to create this document outlining a student's special education services and goals.
What is an IEP?
200
"Section 504 prevents discrimination against people with disabilities who participate in any --------- ------ ------, which includes public schools"
What is a "federally funded program"?
200
A controversial form of ability grouping, this practice involves separating students into different classes or programs based on ability levels. This term can be used synonymously with "ability grouping".
What is tracking?
200
This is an approach that seeks to eliminate the barriers to learning for all students, no matter what challenges they bring with them to school.
What is the Universal design for learning?
300
What does an I.E.P. stand for?
Individualized Education Plan
300
IDEA mandates that students with disabilities be educated in this setting as much as possible, alongside their non-disabled peers.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
300
This law was signed in 2008 and broadened the interpretation of disability as itis applied in Section 504.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act/ADAAA (of 2008)?
300
In this type of ability grouping, students are grouped within the same classroom for specific subjects like math or reading.
What is within-class ability grouping?
300
This tool, which presents spoken words as text on a screen, can be utilized in classrooms for students with hearing impairments.
What is closed captioning?
400
What is 'Ability Grouping' AND/OR what is a criticism of 'Ability Grouping'
1) Ability grouping assumes intelligence is inherited, reflected in IQ, and unchangeable, and that instruction will be superior
2) No research support for between-class ability grouping; Between-class ability grouping negatively influences teaching goals and methods (p. 219)
400
This multi-tiered approach helps identify and support students with learning difficulties before referring them for special education services.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
400
This social movement, characterized by nonviolent protests; boycotts; and marches, is considered to be the catalyst for federal legislation addressing disability justice.
What is the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?
400
This type of ability grouping involves reorganizing students across different classrooms for specific subjects while keeping them in their regular classes for most of the day.
What is regrouping?
400
This device, called a '------ 'n Speak' may assist visually impaired students by using a language system of raised dots and spoken language.
What is a 'BRAILLE 'n Speak'
500
What does the term 'tracking' refer to?
The practice of grouping students into classes based on their perceived academic ability
500
This law, which predates IDEA, was one of the first to require schools receiving federal funds to provide equal access to students with disabilities.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
500
This federal legislation was signed in 1973, and houses Section 504. It is often considered the first major federal disability rights law in the United States.
What is the Vocational Rehabilitation Act (of 1973)?
500
This ability grouping method places students from different grade levels into the same group based on reading ability, rather than age or grade.
What is the Joplin Plan?
500
This tool may be used by individuals with speech difficulties to communicate by selecting words or phrases on a device that then speaks them aloud
What is an 'AAC Device' (Augmentative and Alternative Communication device)
