Acronyms 1
What does IDEA stand for?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
IDEA includes six principles to ensure the rights of children with disabilities to a free and appropriate public education.
What does IEP stand for?
Individualized Education Program
The plan educators are to follow to provide appropriate accommodations to students in special education.
A recurrent pattern of negative, defiant and hostile behavior toward authority figures and persists for 6 months or more.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
A change that gives a child with a disability an alternate method of demonstrating knowledge.
Accommodation
A special education professional who works side-by-side with the special education teacher to provide meaningful education programs to students with special needs.
What does LRE stand for?
Least Restrictive Environment
Children who are disabled must be with children who are not disabled to the maximum extent possible when it is appropriate.
What does AYP stand for?
Adequate Yearly Progress
AYP is the degree of expected progress in academics.
An educational classification that describes children who have acute or chronic health problems that adversely affect a child's educational performance.
Other Health Impairment (OHI)
A process for resolving a dispute between families and early intervention program or local education agency related to the assessment, placement, and identification of children with disabilities.
Due Process
Scientific use of the principles of behavior to increase desired behaviors or decrease problem behaviors in children.
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
What does SEAP stand for?
Special Education Advisory Panel
SEAP provides policy guidance with respect to special education services for children with disabilities.
What does PEN stand for?
Parent Education Network.
PEN is a parent training and information centers in Pennsylvania, and comprised of parents of students with a range of disabilities.
An abnormal sensitivity to touch which is indicated by avoidance or rejection of touching and handling. Children with this sensitivity may resist something of an unusual texture, temperature, pressure or wetness.
Tactile Defensiveness
The loss of critical skills within an extended break in the school year
Regression
An assessment used to identify the reason for, or purpose of, a child's behavior problem(s). From this assessment, a plan is put in place to change the things that maintain the behaviors.
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
What does ALD stand for?
Assistive Learning Device
An ADL is a device that amplifies sound for students who are hearing impaired.
What does BSE stand for?
Bureau of Special Education
The BSE of Pennsylvania is responsible for the education of children with disabilities, ages 3 to 21.
A condition in which a child at least one of the following characteristics for a long period of time, and it negatively impacts the students educational performance.
- An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health factors
- Difficulty with interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers
- Inappropriate behaviors and/or feelings
- General pervasive mood of unhappiness
- Physical symptoms or fears associated with school or personal problems
Emotional Disturbance (ED)
A place, including home and community settings, where the child would be if the child did not have a disability.
Natural Environment
A technique used by occupational therapists that provides playful, meaningful activities to enhance a child's sensory intake.
Sensory Integration
What does HUNE stand for?
Hispanics United for Exceptional Children.
HUNE empowers Hispanic parents of children with exceptionalities by providing training on special education.
What does SWPBIS stand for?
School Wide Positive Behaviors Interventions and Supports.
SWPBIS an approach using intervention strategies and organizational systems to establish the social culture, learning and teaching environment and individual behavior supports as needed.
A repetitive movement (i.e. hand flapping, rocking, etc.) that interferes with child's ability to sit still ad participate in activities. This is very common in Autism.
Self-Stimulation
School-Based Behavioral Health
A professional who assists in the development of a treatment plan and works with a team to monitor a child's progress and make any necessary changes to the treatment plan.
Behavior Specialist Consultant