Legal and Laws
A law that protects the rights of exceptional children in a educational setting.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
The process of modifying content instruction to meet the needs of the students.
What is differentiation?
Adapting the learning process so that exceptional students have "equal access" to the same general education curriculum as general education students.
What is accommodations?
A group that collaborates to develop a student's IEP.
What is an IEP team?
A condition, trait or disorder that a person is born with.
What is Congenital?
A federal civil right mandate that protects people with disabilities in the public sphere.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
A preventative method of instruction to reduce the need for special education services while keeping students within the general education classroom.
What is Multi-Tiered System of Support?
The changing of content goals in order to meet the needs of the learner.
What is modifications?
The measurement of a learners obtained content knowledge.
What is Criterion-Based Assessment?
A developmental condition that is the basis of crucial restrictions in intellectual performance and adaptive behavior.
What is Intellectually Disabled?
A federal requirement that guarantees that all exeptional children recieve a "free and public education" that meets the individual needs of each child.
An intervention that is implemented within a classroom to address both emotional and behavioral issues using strategies that help students learn positive replacement behaviors.
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
A construction for devising an all-encompassing educational environment and curriculum that affords equity for all students to learn.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
An assessment method used to determine why certain behaviors occur by identifying the antecedent, the behavior and the consequence.
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment?
A term used to describe students with considerable trouble gaining and using learned skills.
What is Specific Learning Disability?
A legal mandate that ensures that "any student with special needs receives their education with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate."
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
An individualized plan that addresses the special needs of a child with disabilities ages birth through 3 years.
What is a Individual Family Service Plan?
Goal oriented individualized education require in an IEP to address a student’s individual needs.
What is Specifically Designed Instruction?
Any evaluation method that uses students work to assess their understanding and application.
What is Alternative Assessment?
When a student has two or more conditions that make functioning in an educational setting more difficult, and require multifaceted supports.
What is Comorbidity?
A legal procedure that allows parents and educational institution to come to an agreement about a student's access to services.
What is Due Process?
A summer program used for exceptional children to prevent the regression of skills while on summer break.
What is Extended School Year?
A set of activities, objectives and personalized goals that are added within a student's IEP at age 14 to help prepare them for life after they graduate high school.
What is Transitional Services?
A quantity computed to specify the degree of difference for a whole group.
What is Standard Deviation?
Creating an equitable relationship with families of different cultures and ethnicities.
What is Cultural Reciprocity?