While learning disabilities, communication disorders, and emotional disturbances are considered high-incidence disabilities, deafness, blindness, and severe intellectual disabilities are considered this...
What are low-incidence disabilities?
100
The instrument used to ensure that educators focus on the needs of individual students with disabilities as mandated by law.
What is the Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
100
The philosophical belief in special education that every individual even the most disabled, should have an educational and living environment as close to normal as possible.
What is normalization?
100
A method used for special education students (and regular classroom students) is known as R-T-I or this...
What is response-to-intervention?
100
Assessing students using this approach is limited because the language used may be unfamiliar to members of some microcultures.
What are the traditional standardized testing approaches?
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 education teacher?
(SERT) (LERT) (SRT (LRT)
200
The legal term requiring a student to be separated from nondisabled classmates and from home, family, and community as little as possible.
What is the least restrictive environment?
200
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?
200
The subcultures of particular importance for special education.
What are ethnic groups and exceptionality groups?
200
One of the main criticisms of traditional assessment procedures is that the focus is on the student rather than this.
What is the environment in which he or she is being taught?
300
The percent of exceptional students who are now educated in regular classrooms all of the time.
What is almost 75%?
300
Regulation 181/98
What is the regulation dealing iwth the identification and placement of students?
300
The right to make one's own decisions regarding important aspect of one's life, which includes where to work and life, who to be friends with, and the type of education they choose to pursue.
What is self-determination?
300
A long-standing problem is the disproportionate representation in special education of these two groups.
Who are males and ethnic minority students?
300
The level of consistency and dependability of a test
What is reliability?
400
A student who performs or behaves poorly in school and appears likely to fail or fall short of his or her potential might be considered this...
What is "at risk"?
400
In 1980, this bill was passed.
What is Bill 82?
400
A situation where all students with disabilities attend only regular classes for the entire day. The classroom teachers have primary responsibility for all students, including those with disabilities.
What is full inclusion?
400
One of the most effective ways of breaking down prejudice and encouraging appropriate interaction among students with different characteristics.
What is cooperative learning?
400
The use of this to assess students' progress is particularly beneficial to students from diverse populations because it involves students' responses to their usual instructional materials and thus decreases the likelihood of cultural bias.
What is curriculum-based assessment?
500
The most important goal of special education.
What is finding and capitalizing on exceptional students' abilities and providing specially designed instruction that meets their unique needs?
500
A plan for students 14 or older.
What is a Transition Plan?
500
A team made up of a variety of professionals, many times including general and special educators, who work with regular classroom teachers to generate techniques for teaching difficult-to-teach children.
What is a multi-disciplinary team?
500
Technique to aid memory, such as "I before E".
What is mnemonics?
500
The degree to which a test measures what it purports to measure