Agencies, Organizations and Programs
Disabilities and Behaviors
Educational Terms
Educational Terms II
Government Regulations and Legalities
100
Located within the PA Department of Education, is responsible for the education of students with disabilities from ages 3 through 21.
What is the Bureau of Special Education?
100
Disability in which a child's intellectual and adaptive behavior is below average, which impacts upon the child's education.
What is Cognitive Delay?
100
A change that gives a child with a disability an alternate method of demonstrating knowledge.
What is an Accommodation?
100
A written statement of a child's current level of educational performance and their individualized plan of instruction, including goals, specific services to be received, staff members who will carry out the services, standards and timelines for evaluating progress and the degree to which the child will participate with typically-developing peers.
What is an Individualized Education Program?
100
A 1992 law that defines the term disability and prohibits discrimination by employers, by facilities open to the general public, and by state and local public agencies that provide such services as transportation.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
200
The federal requirement that mandates that states must actively locate children, from birth to 21, who have disabilities or at risk for developing disabilities.
What is Child Find?
200
Any physical or mental condition that begins before the age of 18 years, causes the child to acquire skills at a slower rate than their peers, continues indefinitely, and impairs the child's ability to function in society.
What is a Developmental Disability?
200
A process for resolving a dispute between a family and an early intervention program or a local educational agency related to the identification, evaluation, placement, or program of a child with disabilities.
What is Due Process?
200
Degree of progress expected of children in academic areas.
What is Adequate Yearly Progress?
200
Law that protects the privacy and transfer of student education records.
What is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?
300
A regional educational agency that provides services to local educational agencies including curriculum, special education, technology and information services, human resources, instruction and professional development.
What is an Intermediate Unit?
300
Refers to a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills during childhood, along with deficits in adaptive behavior and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity during adulthood.
What is an Intellectual Disability?
300
Refers to specialized services and supports designed to helps families with children birth to age five who have developmental delays.
What is Early Intervention?
300
Specialized instruction tailored to fit the unique learning strengths and needs of students with disabilities.
What is Special Education?
300
The primary federal education legislation addressing kindergarten through high school for children at risk.
What is No Child Left Behind?
400
A school district, charter school or other educational entity responsible for providing free, appropriate, public education in accordance with the PA Department of Education statutes, regulations and policies with or without support from other agencies.
What is a Local Educational Agency?
400
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or perform mathematical calculations.
What is a Learning Disability?
400
Federal mandate that all children with disabilities must receive appropriate educational programs, tailored to their unique needs, from which they receive educational benefit at no cost to families.
What is a Free Appropriate Public Education?
400
A comprehensive multi-tiered, and standards-aligned approach that enables early identification and intervening for children at academic or behavior risk.
What is Response to Intervention?
400
This law protects the civil rights of individuals with disabilities. Children who are not eligible for special education may qualify for accommodations under this act.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
500
Provides vocational rehabilitation services to help individuals with disabilities prepare for, obtain and maintain employment.
What is the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation?
500
A recurrent pattern of negative, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures, which persists for at least six months.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
500
IDEA requirement indicating children with disabilities, must be educated with children who are not disabled, to the maximum extent possible. Removal of children with disabilities from the general education classroom occurs only when the nature and/or severity of their disabilities are such that they cannot be achieved satisfactorily in the general classroom.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
500
An approach to creating instructional materials and activities that are accessible to all, rather than simply adapting existing curricula and materials to provide access to persons with disabilities. It allows for multiple means of representation, expression and engagement.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
500
This law provides the legal authority for early intervention and special education services from birth to age 21.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
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