IEP
Students with documented disabilities must be taught as much as possible in the same setting as peers who don’t have disabilities
What is least restrictive environment (LRE):
Known as ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder
A combination of various disabilities that may include: speech, physical mobility, learning, mental retardation, visual, hearing, brain injury and possibly others.
What is Multiple Disabilities
The most common LD, representing at least 80% of all LDs, and results from deficits in phonologic processing.
What is Reading disability (dyslexia)
Education that is a service not a place
What is Special Education
The IEP document lists the academic and functional (everyday) skills the IEP team thinks a student can achieve by the end of a school year.
What are Annual Goals
Refers to how autism is experienced differently by different people. Some autistic people might need more support than others to live the lives they want to lead.
What is Spectrum
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial Impairment or both that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.”
What is Traumatic Brain Injury
A learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding).
What is Dyslexia
A complete, natural language that has the same linguistic properties as spoken languages, with grammar that differs from English and is expressed by movements of the hands and face.
What is American Sign Language (ASL)
A description of a student’s current abilities, skills, challenges, and strengths at the time the IEP is written. PLEP describes academic skills (like reading level)
What is Present Level of Academic Performance
Common examples of this are hand flapping, body rocking, toe walking, spinning objects, sniffing, immediate and delayed echolalia, and running objects across one's peripheral vision”
What is stereotypies or stimming
An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors. An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances. A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
What is Emotional Disturbance
A learning disorder that affects a person's ability to understand number-based information and math.
What is Dyscalculia
A related service to teach children and adults with blindness or vision impairments critical skills to remain oriented in their environment as well as specific mobility skills in order to travel safely, efficiently and as independently as possible within the home, at school, at work.
What is Orientation and Mobility
In special education jargon, Free Appropriate Education is known as
What is FAPE
The repetition or echoing of words or sounds that you hear someone else say. It is an important step for language development in children. Is a sign of autism in children over the age of 3.
What is Echolalia
A functional term to describe those whose decreased visual function interferes with the ability for one to perform their activities of daily living, defined based on function, instead of using visual acuity or visual field cutoff values.
What is Visual Impairment
This specific learning disorder is focused on difficulties producing written language.
What is Dysgraphia
Define Comorbidity
What is 2 disability or impairment conditions occurring in the same individual
refers to the special methods, equipment, materials, and adaptations that are needed for students to be successful in school and to achieve their IEP goals. This may involve accommodations and/or modifications to the general education curriculum.
What is Specially-designed instruction (SDI)
Allows us to understand that others have unique beliefs and desires that are different from our own, enabling us to engage in daily social interaction as we interpret the mental states and infer the behaviors of those around us
What is theory of mind
Identified by 3 criteria: Below Average Intellectual Functioning, Significant Delays in Adaptive Behavior and must occur during Developmental Period
What is Intellectual Disabilities
A disorder of the auditory (hearing) system that causes a disruption in the way that an individual's brain understands what they are hearing.
What is Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
The 2 criteria needed for this diagnosis are Significantly subaverage intellectual functioning and Significant Delays in Adaptive Behavior
What is Intellectual Disability ( ID)