Special Education
SpEd Law
The Referral Process
History
Acronyms
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While learning disabilities, speech-language impairment, intellectually disabilities and emotional disturbances are considered high-incidence disabilities, deafness, blindness, and severe intellectual disabilities are considered this...
What are low-incidence disabilities?
100
The document and process used to guide educators in meeting the needs of individual students with disabilities as mandated by IDEA.
What is the Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
100
This is the process where a first intervention is implemented after he/she has identified a student that is struggling in an academic area or with behaviors. It also includes any other specialists that may also provide instruction or intervention prior to referral for Special Education Services.
What is RTI (Response to Intervetion)?
100
The social movement of the 1960s and 1970s whereby large numbers of persons with intellectual disabilities and/or mental illness were moved from large mental institutions into smaller community homes or into the homes of their families. It is recognized as a major catalyst for integrating persons with disabilities into society.
What is deinstituitionalization?
100
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
200
A professional who must attain special expertise in instructing students with learning problems, managing serious behavior problems, using technological advances, and knowing the special education law.
Who is a special educator?
200
The legal term requiring a student to be separated from nondisabled classmates and as little as possible.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
200
After a student has been evaluated, the IEP must make this determination based on the evaluation data, state and federal criteria, and team input.
What is eligibility?
200
The law in 1954 that was the basis for the subsequent Special Education law that mandated that Students with Disabilties have access to an education.
What is Brown v. Board of Ed., Topeka, Kansas?
200
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
300
The percent of all Special Education students who are served under IDEA that are classified as having a Emotional Disturbance.
What is 8.1%?
300
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)?
300
This refers to where, when, and the type of services that will be provided to a student.
What is placement?
300
This initial Federal law was passed that mandated that all students with disabilities have access to an education in a public school.
What is Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975, P.L. 94-142?
300
LEA
What is Local Education Agency?
400
A student who has difficulties in language and literacy, mathematics, attention and memory, thinking and reasoning, study skills, using learning strategies, and organizational strategies might be considered to have this...
What is "Specific Learning Disability"?
400
This process can only be completed after a parent has been informed and gives written permission to proceed.
What is evaluation or assessment?
400
A situation where a student with disabilities attends only general education classes for the entire day. The general education teachers have primary responsibility for this student.
What is full inclusion?
400
The persons that lead the way in lobbying and advocating for students with disabilities to have access to an education.
Who where parents, CEC and AAMR?
400
ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
500
The most important goal of special education.
What is providing specially designed instruction that meets the student's individual needs?
500
The court ruled that the use of standardized IQ tests for placement into special education classes for students with educable mental retardation was discriminatory.
What is Larry P. v. Riles (California, 1977)
500
The team made up of parents, general and special educators, and administrators who work together to development an IEP.
What is an IEP team?
500
This law has focused on improving academic achievement in schools, districts and states, teachers that are credenitaled and have the appropriate skills and knowledge, and the provided a process for addressing schools that are low performing.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
500
OT and PT
What is Occupational and Physical Therapy?
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