Special Education Vocabulary
The IEP Process
Eligibility Criteria
Special Education Timelines
NBPS Special Education Programs
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IDEA

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

100
School districts are mandated to identify, find and evaluate students who live within their boundaries suspected of having a disability.
What is child find.
100

A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction.

What is Autism?

100

Time allowed to respond to a staff member or parent request to convene an IEP Meeting.

What is 10 Calendar days?

100

Serves students with cognitive impairments who require and alternative, functional curriculum and meet the criteria to be assessed by DLM's.

What is LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM?

200

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?

200

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 ?

200

Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior

What is Intellectual Disability

200

How long do we have to convene an IEP meeting to determine eligibility after consent for initial evaluation is obtained. (Initial)

What is 75 school days? (NBPS)

200

A Program designed specifically for students classified as ASD with embedded ABA support/intervention. 

What is the ASD porgram at Paul Robeson School of the Arts. 

300

FAPE

What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?

300

Autism, Blindness, Deafness, Emotional Regulation Impairment, Auditory 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.

300

Simultaneous impairments the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.

What is Multiple Disabilities? (does not included deaf-blindness)

300

Provide written notice to parent concerning a student's eligibility determination and proposd program?

What is at the conclusion of the meeting?

300

An opportunity for special educaion studnets in the 8th grade to sample CTE at the Middleeex County Magnet Schools. 

What is the SHARE TIME program?

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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.

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Referral for Special Education, Evaluation, Determining Eligibility, Writing the Individual Education Program & holding an IEP Meeting

What is the IEP process?

400

Having limited strength, vitality or alertness including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the education environment that a) is due to a chronic or acute health problems b) adversely affects a child's education performance

What is Other Health Impairment?

400

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?

400

A self-contained class program for students with significantly below academic skills but do not meet the criteria for DLM.

What is Severe LLD Special Class at NBHS?

500
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
500

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.

500

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 Emotion Regulation Impairment

500

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.

500

In-Lieu of Expulsion Program (High School)

What is the RESET Program @ ALC

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