Special Education Vocabulary
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Time allowed to respond to a staff member or parent request to convene an IEP Meeting.
What is 10 Calendar days?
Serves students with cognitive impairments, autism, health impairments and multiple disabilities who require and alternative, functional curriculum
What is FBI/SCORE (Grades K-12) FBI Program (K-8) SCORE Program (High School) Intensive Classes (K-12) - ABA principles utilized
This ensures that no changes can be made in a child's program without prior notice to the parents. It also provides a mechanism for the resolution of disagreements when parents disagree with the program recommendations of the school district.
What is due process?
When a child appears to be struggling in school parents, teachers or other school personnel can do this
Who can make a referral for special education ?
How long do we have to convene an IEP meeting to determine eligibility after consent for evaluation is obtained.
What is 60 school days? (District 202 = 50 days)
A Program to provide students with Autism Spectrum Disorders an opportunity to generalize social and communication skills to the natural environment.
What is Project Class (K-3) C=Communication L=Language S=Social S=Skills
Autism, Blindness, Deafness, Emotional Disturbance, Hearing Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic Impairment, Other Health Impaired, Specific Learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Visual Impairment
What are the 13 categories of special education defined by IDEA.
Provide written notice to parent concerning a student's eligibility determination.
What is at the conclusion of the meeting?
A 5 hour a day instructional special education program at the EC (Early Childhood) level.
What is Project LEAP? The class will utilize research based instructional methodologies in order to support students’ learning. Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Verbal Behavior (VB) will be utilized within the framework of the curriculum. The program will provide small group and individualized instruction in order to increase students’ foundational skills to help support their transition into an inclusive instructional environment.
This must occur within 10 school days of any decision to change the placement of a child with a disability because of violation of school code.
What is a Manifestation Determination meeting (MD)? IEP team must review all relevant information in the student's file to determine if the conduct in question was caused by the child's disability or if the conduct was a direct result of the school district's failure to implement the child's IEP.
Referral for Special Education, Evaluation, Determining Eligibility, Writing the Individual Education Program & holding an IEP Meeting
What is the IEP process?
Time we have to convene Manifestation Determination Review, draft or review/revise FBA/BIP after student is suspended over 10 school days.T
What is 10 school days?
A highly structured, behaviorally focused learning environment. Uses preventive teaching, individual instruction, corrective teaching, referral for therapeutic teaching of skills.
What is Emotional Disability Programs? K-3 Ridge Elem., 4-5 Creekside Elem., (6 - 8) Ira Jones Middle School (RISE), Plainfield Academy Middle School & TAP Middle School, (9 - 12) Plainfield Central High School (RISE), Plainfield Academy High School, TAP High School
No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall solely, by reason of his handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
What Section 504? An educational plan that is written for a student who needs modifications or accommodations within the general education classroom environment.
A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics of an extended period of time, to a marked degree & adversely affects a child's education performance: 1)Inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health factors 2) Inability to build or maintain satisfactory relationships with peers & adults 3) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances 4) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression 5) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
What is Emotional Disturbance?
Time Parents have to invoke stay put if the dispute the IEP by filing a due process complaint or agreeing to mediation after an IEP meeting
10 school days after an IEP meeting.