Awesome Acronyms
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
This member of the team will interpret the child's evaluation results and discuss the instruction implications which assist the team in planning appropriate instruction to address the child's individual needs.
What is School Psychologist?
This section of the IEP describes the current classroom functioning of the student.
What is Present Levels of Academic Performance?
A parent of a child, a school district, a public agency, other persons knowledgeable about the child may initiate a request for an initial evaluation to determine if the student is eligible for special education.
What is a referral?
A civil rights law that is intended to give all individuals the same advantages and opportunities, so that individuals with disabilities have an equal chance for success.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
PBSP
What is Positive Behavior Support Plan?
You have to have at least one of these to share about the general education curriculum in the regular education setting and provide present level information related to participating with students without disabilities.
What is regular education teacher?
These are required only for children with disabilities who take alternate assessments aligned to alternate achievement standards.
What are Benchmarks or Short-term Objectives?
An initial IEP for a student will be implemented as soon as possible after receiving parental consent for initial services.
What is no later than 10 school days?
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)?
BEC
What is Basic Education Circular?
Prior to initiating special education services, permission must be obtained from this mandatory team member.
Who is the Parent or Guardian?
These must begin no later than the first IEP to be in effect when the student turns 14 or younger, if determined appropriate by the IEP team, and updated annually.
What is Transition Services?
When a parent orally requests an evaluation, the local educational agency (LEA) must provide a copy of the Permission to Evaluate-Evaluation Request form to the parent.
What is 10 calendar days?
Dealt with the exclusion of children with mental retardation from public schools. In the subsequent settlement, it was agreed that educational placement decisions must include a process of parental participation and a means to resolve disputes.
What is Pennsylvania Assn. for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (PARC) and Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia?
PARC and Mills
IEE
What is Independent Educational Evaluation?
Of the mandatory team members of an IEP meeting, this participant's role is to make financial decisions on behalf of the school/district.
Who is LEA (Local Educational Agency)?
This section provides documentation that the parent has received a copy of parental rights and the process for disagreeing with the IEP. Parent(s)/guardian/surrogate must sign acknowledging receipt and awareness of whom to contact if more information is needed.
What is Procedural Safeguards Notice?
When a parent presents a written request for an evaluation, if the LEA agrees to evaluate as requested, the LEA must provide the Permission to Evaluate-Consent form and Notice of Recommended Educational Placement/Prior Written Notice (NOREP/PWN) form to the parent
What is "Within a reasonable amount of time, generally considered to be 10 calendar days"?
Congress intended that all children with disabilities would “have a right to education, and to establish a process by which State and local educational agencies may be held accountable for providing educational services for all handicapped children.”
What is Public Law 94-142: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975?
PLAAFP
What is Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance?
I am invited when above the age of 14 and transition service needs or transition services/activities are going to be discussed at the meeting.
Who is the STUDENT?
It is the responsibility of each public agency to ensure that to the maximum extent appropriate student with disabilities, including those in public or private institutions or other care facilities are educated with students who are not disabled. Special classes, separate schooling or other removal of students with disabilities from the general educational environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in general education classes, EVEN WITH the use of supplementary aids and services, cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
What is Educational Placement?
After the LEA receives written parental consent, the reevaluation must be completed and a copy of the Reevaluation Report presented to the parent.
What is 60 calendar days, the calendar days from the day after the last day of the spring school term, up to and including the day before the first day of the fall school term, will not be counted?
Ensures that all children with disabilities are entitled to a free appropriate public education to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment and independent living.
What is The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?