The most significant piece of legislation supporting the education and treatment of children and youth with disabilities.
What is IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
100
Determining whether a child has a broad set of behavioral characteristics that suggest the possibility of a disability and the need for further assessment.
What is Screening
100
The most frequently investigated aspect of memory for students with learning disabilities which is the ability to see something, think about it, and then act on this information.
What is Working Memory
100
The support that teachers give students as they learn content.
What is Scaffolding
200
Individual students must be provided witha full range of appropriate direct and related educational services at no cost to students or their families
What is Free and appropriate public education (FAPE)
200
Passed in 1990,this civil rights legislation provides nondiscriminatory protections such as equal opportunity to participate fully in community life and applies to all segments of society- employment, recreations and education.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
200
An impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance but that is not included under the definition of deafness.
What is a Hearing Impairment
200
Children and youth whose behavioral and emotional responses are so different from appropriate age, cultutal or ethic norms that their educational performance is affected adversely
What is Emotional and Behavior Disability (EBD)
200
Strategies that have been proven to be effective with ADHD students to decrease inappropriate behaviors, increase on task behaviors and increase academic accuracy and productivity.
What are self-regulation strategies
300
Schools must deliver services in settings that best meet the needs of the student and are closest to the typical general education setting.
What is Least restrictive environment (LRE)
300
A component of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that levels the playing field by eliminating barriers that exclude those with disabilities from full participation in activities.
What is Section 504
300
Students with chronic health conditions such as asthma and epilepsy that causes weakness or fatigue or in some way adversley affects school performance.
What is Other Heath Impaired (OHI)
300
Mild to significant weaknesses in general learning ability, low achievement in all academic areas,deficits in memory and motivation and a measured IQ that is below 70.
What are characteristics of students with intellectual disabilities
300
Providing instruction focused on specific academic needs and delivered in a structured manner will be the most effective approach for these students
What is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
400
For certain demographic groups, the proportion of students identified for special education services is higher than the proportion of that group in the general population
What is Overrepresentation
400
A comprehensive federal initiative designed to improve the educational performance of all students through accountability for results, expanding options for parents and strengthening teacher quality
What is No Child Left Behind of 2001 (NCLB)
400
The first to conduct evaluations of students with physical disabilities or other health impairments.
Changes in the content, desired outcomes, or levels of complexity of the general education curriculum
What are modifications
500
A method of making curriculum and instructional activitiess accessible to all students by including supports and accommodations into the origanl design rather thanmaking alterations after the fact.
What is Universal design for learning (UDL)
500
The clauses of the 5th and 14th Amendments that requires fair and specific procedures related to assessment, identification and placement of children in special education
What is Due Process
500
These professionals assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent disorders related to speech, language, cognitive communication, voice, swallowing and fluency.
What are Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs)
500
Pervasive, life long difficulties im social interaction skills and deficiencies in communication skills as well as extreme and rigid interests and behaviors
What are characteristics of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
500
Any piece of equipment or product system....that is used to increase, maintain or improve functional capacities of a child with a disability.