Procedures
A written request by a parent/legal guardian of a child or the school, to initiate a request for an initial evaluation in order to determine if the student is eligible for special education. This written request begins a 90 day timeline.
What is an initial referral?
Students' rights to a free appropriate public education.
What is FAPE?
Section of the IEP providing a statement of the child's current abilities in measurable terms supported by data, as well as the impact of the disability on the child's access to the general curriculum.
What is the Present Level of Academic and Functional Performance?
ESY
What is Extended School Year?
This occurs annually and should be completed at least one month prior to the expiration date.
What is the Annual Review?
To the maximum extent appropriate students should be educated in the general education environment with students who are non-disabled.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
Provision of the IDEA that requires a child with a disability be educated within the same classroom as typical mainstreamed non-disabled peers to the fullest extent possible.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
FBA
What is Functional Behavior Assessment?
Process required 3 years from the initial placement or last reevaluation and can also be triggered by other factors.
What is Reevaluation Process?
The Education for all Handicapped Children Act was originally passed in 1975, amended in 1990, 1997, and 2004, and is now known as this...
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA-04)?
Service, the amount of time, frequency, location, and duration.
What is specially designed instruction?
BIP
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects a students right to this.
What is confidentiality?
Form required at every meeting that provides the parent a clear record of the educational placement and other services offered. Parents must receive a copy of this form prior to the implementation of decisions.
What is Prior Written Notice?
This section of the IEP must be completed prior the students turning 14.
What is a Transition Plan?
PLAAFP
What is present level of academic achievement and functional performance?
Form that must be signed by the parent or guardian and returned to the school prior to conducting any formal evaluation of the student. This form should also be uploaded into ECATS.
What is Consent For Evaluation/Reevaluation?
Law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
Adjustments to the environment, instruction, or materials that allow a student with a disability to access the content or complete assigned tasks.
What are accommodations?
MTSS
What is Multi-Tiered System of Support