Exceptionalities
Special Education Laws
Curriculum
History
Terminology
100
Anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, conduct disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and psychotic disorders
What is an emotional disorder?
100
Specifies that no one with a disability can be excluded from participating in federally funded programs or activities, including elementary, secondary or postsecondary schooling.
What is Section 504?
100
A framework or philosophy for effective teaching that involves providing different students with different avenues (often in the same classroom) to acquiring content; to processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and to developing teaching materials and assessment measures so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively, regardless of differences in ability.
What is differentiated instruction?
100
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Who is considered the father of Special Education?
100
Difficulties imposed by the environment on a person with disabilities.
What is a handicap?
200
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
What is a specific learning disability?
200
Requires public schools to make available to all eligible children with disabilities a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment appropriate to their individual needs.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
200
An approach to educating students with special educational needs. Under this model, students with special needs spend most or all of their time with non-disabled students.
What is inclusion?
200
Samuel Kirk
Who coined the term "learning disabilities"?
200
A written detailed plan developed by a team for each pupil aged 3-21 who receives special education; a management tool.
What is an IEP?
300
Difficulty in learning to read printed or written text, despite normal or superior intelligence and conventional instruction, and independent of intellectual, cultural, and emotional aspects.
What is dyslexia?
300
A law that reauthorized federal programs meant to hold primary and secondary schools measurably accountable to higher standards. It is written so that it requires 100% of students (including special education students and those from disadvantaged background) within a school to reach the same set of state standards in math and reading by the year 2014.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
300
A student who has a disability should have the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled peers, to the greatest extent appropriate.
What is the least restrictive environment (LRE)?
300
An Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education relating to young children.
Who is Maria Montessori?
300
An assessment procedure in which a student's performance is compared to a particular level of mastery.
What is criterion-referenced assessment?
400
An impairment of the articulation of speech sounds, fluency and/or voice.
What is a speech disorder?
400
The first right-to-education suit in the country, to overturn that state law and secure a quality education for all children.
What is Park vs. Pennsylvania?
400
A standardized set of observational procedures for repeatedly measuring growth in core reading, writing, and arithmetic skills.
What is curriculum-based measures?
400
An American teacher widely recognized for her achievement in educating to a high level a person without sight, hearing, or normal speech.
Who Helen Keller?
400
In regard to learning disabilities, the difference between the student's actual academic performance and his or her estimated ability.
What is discrepancy?
500
two or more areas of significant impairment, one of which shall be an intellectual disability. The other areas of impairment include: Orthopedic Impairment, Visual Impairment including Blindness, Hearing Impairment including Deafness, Speech or Language Impairment, Serious Emotional Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury, or Other Health Impaired.
What is multiple disabilities?
500
as a civil rights case that was brought by Chinese American students living in San Francisco, California who had limited English proficiency. The students claimed that they were not receiving special help in school due to their inability to speak English, help which they argued they were entitled to under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of its ban on educational discrimination on the basis of national origin.
What is Lau vs. Nichols?
500
A method of academic intervention used in the United States to provide early, systematic assistance to children who are having difficulty learning.
What is response to intervention (RTI)?
500
He developed instructional programs for youngsters whom many of his fellow professionals believed to be incapable of learning. He was convinced of the importance of sensorimotor activities as an aid to learning.
Who is Eduoard Seguin?
500
A plan required by Public Law 105-17 for students with disabilities who exhibit problematic behavior.
What is behavioral intervention plan?
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