Special Education Vocabulary
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Your elementary director of student support services
Who is Krista George?
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism?
Setting that has general education students and students with IEPs. This classroom has a general education teacher and a special education teacher.
What is an integrated co teaching room?
Conducts evaluations for new referrals and can also serve as the CSE chairperson?
Who is the school Psychologist?
HH- Jillian Kolis
SH - Katie Attea
LV- Jessica Stachiewicz
CCE- Tara Agnello and Erin Ostrum
MS- Sarah Parrish and Dan Romanowski
HS - Miles Cassatta, Doug Dermott, and Kristen Lammerhirt
LD
What is Learning Disability?
Your secondary director of student support services?
Who is MaryJo Dunkle?
Significantly isolating in nature, this effects two major senses.
What is Deaf-Blindness?
What is a self contained classroom?
This person provides focused support in the areas of social - emotional and mental health needs, and are uniquely trained to integrate the schools, community, and family context into intervention and resource eferals.
Who is a Social Worker?
K-12 - Penny Connors
SH & MS- Nicolette Bekric
MS- Karissa Preister
HS- Marissa Flynn
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
What is TCIS or Flip It.
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?
Focuses on academic scheduling, career development, and social emotional development.
Who is a School Counselor?
HH - Matt Pugh
SH- Hannah Jerozal
LV- Greta
CCE- Lindsay Newman
MS- Dan Fox, Christine Tudor, Kara Elvin
HS- Nick Rizzo, Andrew Steger, Christine Shafer, Genevieve Fuller, Trey Gardner
IEP
What is an Individualized Education Plan?
What is RTi?
Displaying chronic, severe, and at times aggressive behavior.
What is Emotional Disability?
What is a Residential School?
Provides support to students in the classroom, can track data, work in small groups, support transitions, etc.
Who is a paraprofessional (aide)?
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?
Can provide related services such as Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech etc.
Who is a related service provider?
OT/PT/Speech/TOD/Vision