Plans for SWDs
Disability Classifications
IDEA
Special Education Acronyms
Name the Meeting
100

This program focuses on servicing children 0 - 3 years of age with disabilities.

What is Early Intervention?

100

A developmental disability that significantly affects verbal, nonverbal communication and social interactions.

What is Autism?

100

It is the F in FAPE.

What is Free?

100

IDEA

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act?

100

A student with a disability is facing disciplinary actions due to a behavioral incident.  The CSE must determine if the behavior is related to the student’s disability.

What is a Manifestation Determination Meeting?

200

This plan is developed for children receiving early intervention services (Birth - age 3).

What is an Individual Family Service Plan

(IFSP)?

200

Students who are diagnosed as having dyslexia can be identified as this classification under an IEP if that diagnosis adversely impacts learning.

What is a Learning Disability?

200

This serves as a roadmap for the student’s education, ensuring that their educational program is tailored to their specific needs.

What is an IEP (Individualized Education Program)?

200

FAPE

What is a Free and Appropriate Public Education?

200

A student has been referred due to academic or behavioral concerns. The team meets to determine if the student eligible to receive special education services.

What is an Initial Meeting?

300

The venue that determines whether a child is eligible for services from ages 3-5.

What is the Committee on Preschool Special Education

(CPSE)?

300

A student that has impaired articulation that adversely affects their educational performance can be classified as a…

What is Speech or Language Impairment?

300

This core principle emphasizes that, to the maximum extent possible, students with disabilities should be educated in general education settings with their non-disabled peers.

What is a Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?

300

LRE

What is the Least Restrictive Environment?

300

A student who has been receiving special education services for several years requires updated testing to determine if they still meet the criteria for eligibility. The CSE conducts assessments and reviews data to make a determination.

What is a Reevaluation Meeting?

400

This plan is developed for a child requiring special education services who attends a private school or who is home-schooled; requiring special education.

What is an Individualized Educational Service Plan (IESP)?

400

When a student holds this classification, a mandated service is Parent Training.

What is Autism?

400

This principle ensures that assessments are comprehensive, culturally sensitive and used to developed Individualized Education Programs.

What is an Appropriate Evaluation?

400

CPSE

What is the Committee on Preschool Special Education?

400

The CSE is coming together to review the student’s progress towards goals and discuss how the student is generalizing those goals into mainstream setting.  The charge of the committee is create a special education program for the following school year.

What is an Annual Review Meeting?

500

The forum under which an IEP is developed for students between the ages of 5 - 21/or (day before 22nd birthday.

What is the Committee on Special Education (CSE)?

500

This classification covers conditions that limit a child’s strength, energy, or alertness. One example is ADHD.

What is OHI (Other Health Impairment)?

500

Process used for resolving conflicts and disputes relating to special education.

What are Procedural Safeguards?

500

EI

What is Early Intervention?

500

A student has been facing difficulties despite various interventions and services.  The CSE comes together to brainstorm and discuss additional strategies to support the student’s progress.

What is a Program Review/Requested Review Meeting?

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