Disorders
Language/School
Interventions
General Terms
Family/Community
100
a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Autism
100
a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Speech Impairment
100
a form of prereferral intervention that measures a student’s response to increasingly intensive, scientifically validated instruction to determinate whether the child’s struggles to learn are the result of poor or insufficient instruction or of a disability for which a special education is needed.
What is RTI
100
a substantially limiting physical or mental impairment that affects such basic life activities as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, learning, working, or caring for oneself.
What is Disability
100
Children who are considered to have a grader then usual chance of developing a disability
What is at risk
200
A type of pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) that involves delays in the development of basic skills, including socializing, coordination and the ability to communicate.
What is Aspergers Syndrome
200
Dyslexia
What is a neurologically-based, often familial, disorder that interferes with the acquisition and processing of language.
200
Programs for developmentally delayed infants and toddlers through 35 months of age; designed to help prevent problems as the child matures.
What is Early Intervention
200
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 Learning Disability
200
Special education term used by IDEA that states you have been fully informed in your native language or other mode of communication of all the information about the action for which you are giving consent and that you understand and agree in writing to that action.
What is Parent Consent
300
Characterized by cycles of mania alternating with depression. It is difficult to diagnose children with this disorder and often controversial.
What is Bipolar Disorder
300
a rhythm disorder characterized by the repetition of a sound, word, or phrase
What is Dysfluency
300
Provide consultation and support to staff to improve a student’s educational performance related to functional gross motor development.
What is Physical Therapists
300
Impairment in vision that even with correction adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Visual Impairment
300
Term used to describe the committee of parents, teachers, administrators and school personnel that provides services to the student
What is IEP Team
400
A child who defies authority by disobeying, talking back, arguing or being hostile in a way that is excessive compared to other children and this pattern continues for more than six months may be determined to have ODD
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder
400
Term used to describe services that place students with disabilities in general education classrooms with appropriate support services
What is Inclusion
400
Provide consultation and support to staff to improve a student’s educational performance related to fine motor, gross motor and sensory integration development.
What is Occupational Therapist
400
basic behaviors (e.g., mealtime skills) a child has mastered or needs to master to get along as independently as possible in society
What is Functional Behaviors
400
Special education term outlined by IDEA to define the written document that states the disabled child's goals, objectives and services for students receiving special education.
What is IEP
500
a recurrent pattern of negative, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures, which persists for at least six months.
What is ODD
500
an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences.
What is UDL
500
Some student with mild to moderate disabilities are provided with (e.g., additional time, large prints) when taking district and state wide tests.
What is Accommodation
500
Term used to describe a diagnosable mental, behavioral or emotional disorder that lasts for a significant duration that meets the criteria within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
What is Emotional Disturbance
500
a federal law that requires schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities.
What is IDEA
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