Special Education Vocabulary
The IEP Process
Eligibility Criteria
Special Education Timelines
SpEd Team Members
100
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 make a decision and notify parents when a referral for evaluation is made

What is 10 School Days?

100

Serve as both teachers and advocates, ensuring that their students can access the curriculum and meet their individual goals and objectives

All Special Education Teachers at GLCS!

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
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 Cognitive Impairment

200

Convene IEP meeting to determine eligibility after consent for evaluation is obtained.

What is 30 school days?

200

Supports students with language and communication difficulties 

SLPs!

300
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
300
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.
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
Timeline to convene MDR, draft or review/revise FBA/BIP after a student is suspended more than 10 days.
What is 10 school days?
300

Serves and supports students with fine motor, visual/perceptual skills, cognitive skills, and sensory processing deficits

Who are Sonya and Marcie?
400
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.
400
Referral for Special Education Evaluation The Evaluation Determining Eligibility Writing the Individual Education Program The 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
Respond to parent/student request to inspect/copy records after receipt of request
What is 15 school days?
400

The staff member who supports students with increasing and progressing with gross motor skills

Who is Kristen Westrate?

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 Emotional Impairment?

500

Timeline to provide notice to parent of district's recommended action & provide a copy of IEP summary to parent

What is immediately after IEP meeting.

500

Supports GLCS students with deaf and hard of hearing services

Who is Michelle Miller?

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