Definitions
Services, programs and specially designed instruction, designed to meet the individual educational needs of a student with a disability.
What is special education?
A French physician sometimes referred to as the "father of special education" because he educated a boy named Victor.
Who is Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard?
This is a service, not a place.
What is special education?
This was modeled after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and prohibited some forms of discrimination of people with disabilities.
What is the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (PL 93-112), in 1973?
Adapting the content, methodology, or delivery of instruction to address the unique needs of a student with a disability and provide access to the general curriculum.
What is specially designed instruction?
The institution that, when people found out about it, highlighted the horrible way that people with disabilities were being treated.
What is Willowbrook?
Using language that emphasizes the individuality, equality and dignity of people.
What is person-first language?
The first law to make a free and appropriate public education mandatory for all children.
What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142), in 1975, later reauthorized as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
There are 13 of these according to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
What are disability classifications?
An American physician and educator who taught individuals with visual and hearing impairments and founded the first residential school for the blind.
Who is Samuel Gridley Howe?
Using terms such as "suffers from", "victim of", or "afflicted with".
What are words from the medical model that connote pity or condescension?
The part of IDEA that states that all students should be educated in the school they would attend, as close to their house as possible, and can only be removed from the regular educational environment when the nature and severity of the disability is such that even with supplemental aids and services education cannot be satisfactorily achieved.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
The idea that it is better to walk than roll, speak than sign, read print than read braille, etc. that results in the devaluation of disability.
What is ableism?
This doctor is known for her work in early childhood, and with children with intellectual disabilities.
Who is Marie Montessori?
Phrases such as differently abled and special needs.
What are euphemisms?
The law that the Capital Crawl help to get passed.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990?