Disabilities/
"Impairments"
Acronyms
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Acts/Laws
100
An impairment (including blindness) in vision that, even with correction, may adversely affect a student's educational performance.
What is Visual Impairment, or Visual Handicap?
100
ADD
What is Attention Deficit Disorder?
100
Extreme innattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
What is ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
100
Individuals with Disability Education Act
What is IDEA?
100
An act that governs special education programs and practices; it emphasizes student involvement in general curriculum, involvement of the regular education teacher, special factors to be considered, a statement of transition services needs at age 13, reports on student's progress, and parent involvement in placement decisions.
What is IDEA, or Individuals with Disability Education Act?
200
A disability, not always permanent, that may adversely affect a student's educational performance, but is not included under the definition of deafness.
What is a hearing impairment?
200
IEP
What is Individual Education Plan?
200
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment or a voice impairment that may adversely affect a student's educational performance.
What is speech impairment?
200
A Functional Behavior Assessment which, through observations, helps to determine reasons for a child's behaviors.
What is an FBA?
200
Prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, etc.
What is ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act?
300
Significantly sub-average IQ with deficits in adaptive behavior that adversely affects a student's educational performance that has varying levels such as mild, moderate, and severe.
What is a mental disability?
300
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
300
A developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life and affects the brain's normal development of social and communication skills.
What is autism?
300
A child aged three, four, or five whose developmental progress is delayed to the extent that a program of special education is required to ensure his adequate preparation for school-age experiences.
What is PCD?
300
A federal civil rights law that protects the rights of individuals with disabilities.
What is Section 504?
400
A severe physical disability that may adversely affect a student's educational performance by limiting normal functioning of bones, muscles, or joints due to congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease, accidents, or birth defects. Examples include cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, accidents that result in traumatic brain injury, and the need of a wheelchair.
What is an orthopedic impairment?
400
BIP
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
400
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, recall information, do abstract thinking, or perform mathematical calculations.
What is a Specific Learning Disability, or Learning Disability (LD)?
400
An emotional disturbance defined as a condition over a long period of time that adversely affects the student's educational performance.
What is ED, or EH?
400
It was signed into law in 2002 and has aligned federal and state initiatives to support higher student achievement, stronger public schools, and a better-prepared teacher workforce.
What is NCLB, or No Child Left Behind?
500
Limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli. These students may suffer from asthma, diabetes, seizures, leukemia, AIDS, or similar health issues.
What is other health impairment?
500
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
500
A disability characterized by a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.
What is ODD, or Oppositional Defiance Disorder?
500
An anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (compulsions).
What is OCD, or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
500
Percent of youth with IEPs aged 16 (in SC 13) years and above with an IEP that includes appropriate measurable postsecondary goals that are updated annually and based upon age appropriate transition assessment.
What is Indicator 13?
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