People
Doctor, educator, political, and social reformer who is associated with the Perkins School for the Blind.
Who was Samuel G. Howe?
This is a three-tiered approach to intervention.
(acronym & full name)
What is RTI (Response to Intervention)?
This legal document outlines the special education plan for all students with a disability.
(acronym & full name)
What is an IEP
(Individualized Education Plan)?
Nonverbal communication, language, dialects, values, and typical behaviors are part of ___________.
What is culture?
An approach to teaching and learning that gives all students equal opportunity to succeed.
(acronym & full name)
What is UDL?
Universal Design for Learning
These are special education teaching assistants or instructional aides.
Who are paraeducators?
This utilizes RTI principles and practices for academics and also includes social/emotional and behavioral supports.
What is Multi-tiered Systems of Support?
This plan is a way for schools to provide supports for students with a disability so that they can learn in a regular classroom.
What is the Section 504 plan?
Disabilities, sexual orientation, and age are part of _____________.
What is our subculture?
This principle of IDEA ensures that students are educated in a general education setting as much as possible.
(acronym & full name)
What is LRE?
Least Restrictive Environment
This person is associated with the
creation of Special Olympics.
Who was Eunice Kennedy Shriver?
This RTI tier involves 80% of students receiving core whole group instruction in a general education classroom.
What is Tier 1?
Saying “a student with a learning disability” vs. “an LD student” is an example of _____ that was mandated by IDEA.
What is “people first language”.
Poverty and systemic bias are factors that contribute to this.
What is disproportionate representation?
This core principle of IDEA ensures that all services are free and appropriate.
(acronym & full name)
What is FAPE?
Free Appropriate Public Education
This person diagnoses, designs, and delivers interventions for speech and language impairments.
Who are speech/language pathologists?
This tier involves 15% of students in small groups with targeted instruction and additional time.
What is Tier 2?
This act ensures that businesses accommodate the rights of individuals with disabilities.
(acronym & full name)
What is ADA
(Americans with Disabilities Act)?
This is the order of classroom placement options for students with IEPs from least restrictive to most restrictive.
What is the general education classroom, resource room and self contained classroom?
These are schoolwide and classroom positive standards of behavior.
(acronym & full name)
What is PBIS?
Positive Behavior Intervention
These people help students gain skills, such as cutting with scissors, buttoning and zipping clothes, and tying shoes.
Who are occupational therapists?
This RTI tier involves intense small group or individual instruction and about 5% of students with a specially trained teacher.
What is Tier 3?
This act provides all children the opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, high-quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.
(acronym & full name)
What is ESSA
(Every Student Succeeds Act)?
These are two examples of high-incidence (more common) disabilities in the general education classroom.
What are Specific Learning Disability, Language and Speech Disorders, Autism, ADHD, and Mild Intellectual Disabilities?
This act was reauthorized for the last
time in 2004 and has 8 core principles.
(acronym & full name)
What is IDEA?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act