Acronyms
IEP
What is Individualized Education Plan (or Program)?
Communication or Langauge Disorder
What is a Speech or Language Impairment?
Description of current levels of functioning
What is present levels of performance?
changes to educational environments and practices designed to help students overcome the barrier/challenges
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
Impairment in hearing
What is a hearing impairment?
related services, supplementary aids and services, program modifications and supports from school personnel that the school will provide
What are Services?
adaptations that change what students learn
What are modifications?
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
Deficits in social communication and social skills - generally evident before age 3
What is autism?
What students should learn or accomplish within a year. They are measurable.
What are goals?
address a skill or knowledge deficit experienced by students with or without disabilities
What are instructional strategies?
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment
What is Other Health Impairment?
Happens no later than age 16
What is transition planning?
Name 2 (out of 4) accommodation categories
What are presentation, response, setting, time/scheduling?
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written
What is Specific Learning Disability?
Age 18 - Transfer of IDEA Rights
What is Age of Majority?
Name 3 potential service providers
What are - education specialist (special education teacher), speech pathologist, counselor, vision specialist, behaviorist, etc.)