Special Education Vocabulary
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
School districts are mandated to identify, find and evaluate students who live within their boundaries suspected of having a disability.
What is child find.
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism?
What is an inclusion room?
Curb cuts, braille on signs, elevator button height, and designated parking spaces are all accommodations because of ADA found where?
What is the Built World?
ADA
What is Americans With Disabilities Act
When a child appears to be struggling in school parents, teachers or other school personnel can do this
Make a referral for special education?
Significantly isolating in nature, this effects two major senses.
What is Deaf-Blindness?
What is a self contained classroom?
This person lived before ADA or IDEA was put into place, but was an advocate for individuals with disabilities in the political and philosophical realm, and had many accomplishments in her lifetime despite the severity of her disability.
Who is Helen Keller?
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
Autism, Blindness, Deafness, Emotional and Behavioral Disorder, 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.
Simultaneous impairments the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they typically cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.
What is Multiple Disabilities? (does not included deaf-blindness)
What is a Day School?
This document allows for accommodations for a student that does not have an IEP, and is NOT covered under IDEA.
What is a 504 Plan?
IEP
What is an Individualized Education Plan?
A district has this many days to complete an evaluation after receiving a referral.
What 60 days?
Displaying chronic, severe, and unacceptable behavior.
What is Emotional and Behavioral Disorder?
What is a Residential School?
What camp did the advocates for the ADA go to when they were kids?
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
This individual can be included in the IEP meeting but may not always be, dependent on the individual situation.
Who is the student.
This is most typically the classification associated with ADHD
What is Other Health Imapirment (OHI)?
What is the Resource Room?
Section 504 was put in place in 1973 and later rewritten and put in place as the Americans with Disabilities Act in what year?
What is 1990?