Preplanning a unit of instruction to meet the diverse needs of learners--providing students multiple means of representation, action & expression, and engagement.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
100
In addition to demonstrating deficits in adaptive functioning, adversely impacting educational progress, and occurring during childhood, what is the other main identifying characteristic of a cognitive impairment/ intellectual disability.
What is scoring 2 or more standard deviations below the mean on tests of intellectual ability?
100
No student with a disability may be denied a FAPE regardless of the student's disability.
What is Zero Reject?
100
IEP stands for this term.
What is Individualized Education Program?
100
A disability resulting from an extra chromosome - a genetic anomaly.
What is Down's syndrome?
200
You use this practice to tailor instruction to meet individual needs of students; includes flexible grouping of students.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
200
Includes 8 domains that address aspects of a dignified life that everyone should be able to have, regardless of level of cognitive functioning.
What are Schalock's Quality of Life Domains?
200
Evaluations must be unbiased and take into consideration students' language, culture, and other traits.
What is Nondiscriminatory Evaluation?
200
When a child demonstrates an inability to make sufficient progress in the general education curriculum, the general education teacher and student support team will begin the special education eligibility assessment process by making a ________________
What is a referral?
200
A genetic condition that is also the most frequently diagnosed inherited disability--often co-morbid with ASD.
What is Fragile X syndrome?
300
Instructional practices that important to the everyday work of teachers, and applicable across content area and grade level. Effective teachers frequently use these research-based practices in their classrooms.
What are High Leverage Practices (HLPs)?
300
Moral codes that guide professionals to appropriate treatment of their clients, patients, or students. (We reviewed CEC's "code.")
What is Code of Ethics?
300
An environment in which the student is educated to the maximum extent possible with their peers without disabilities.
What is LRE?
300
After a comprehensive evaluation consisting of a variety of assessments, parents, teachers, and all persons involved in the assessment process come together to review assessment results and determine if the student is eligible for special education services.
What is an IEP (Eligibility) Meeting?
300
Caused by congenital or acquired abnormal brain development; approximately 40% of these individuals have intellectual disability in addition to their motor deficits.
What is cerebral palsy?
400
This high leverage practice consists of physical, visual, verbal, or written cues to support students as they are learning new skills (support is slowly removed as the skill is learned).
What is scaffolding?
400
The Circle of Courage component that would promote inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms ("sense of community").
What is Belonging?
400
A process ensuring fairness in the consideration of evidence in which parents and educators hold each other accountable for the provision of FAPE.
What is Procedural Due Process?
400
Rather than a place, this term actually describes the special education services that a student will receive, as specified on the IEP.
What is (special education) placement?
400
A disorder that is related to the mother's alcohol intake during pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
500
It is important to provide students with disabilities many ______________ to __________ (OTR) as they are learning new skills.
What are Opportunities to Respond?
500
The Circle of Courage component that supports teaching students with disabilities postsecondary transition skills, especially self-determination skills ("making one's own decisions and being responsible for failure or success, setting one's own goals")
What is Independence?
500
The part of IDEA that addresses children with disabilities, birth to age 3--and that provides services under an IFSP instead of an IEP.
What is Part C?
500
The IEP meeting that is required to be held once a year after the student is initially determined to be eligible for special education services. At this meeting, the team reviews the student's progress toward IEP goals and makes new goals for the coming year.
What is the Annual Review?
500
A disorder that results from a postnatal injury (e.g., a concussion) during childhood, and that creates changes in the child's thinking, responses to sensory stimulation, language, and emotions.