Areas of Eligibility
An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
HI/D
Hearing Impairment and Deafness
Federal law that protects individuals with disabilities from discrimination.
ADA - American Disabilities Act
This is a plan written for Special Education students. It serves as a planning document that provides guidance for both placement decisions and instruction. As a paraprofessional, you may be asked to help the Teacher document progress towards the goals outlined in this document. You may also be asked to assist in implementing the program modifications and accommodations for certain students.
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
Sworn law enforcement officers responsible for safety and crime prevention in schools.
SRO- (School Resource Officer)
Liberty Public Schools administration center where district leadership such as, Human Resources and Special Education, are housed.
DAC (District Administration Center
Student’s may exhibit significant learning difficulties in the one or more of the following areas: Oral Expression, Listening Comprehension, Written Expression, Basic Reading Skill, Reading Fluency Skills, Reading Fluency Skills, Reading Comprehension, Math Calculation and/or Math Problem Solving.
SLD - Specific Learning Disabilities
Federal law that protects the rights of various protected classes of citizens who have historically been discriminated against. Individuals with disabilities are a protected class of citizens.
OCR (Office for Civil Rights)
Missouri yearly test administered to 3rd through 8th graders to measure student progress on the Missouri Learning Standards.
MAP (Missouri Assessment Program)
Expert who provides specialized instruction or related services for special education students with communication deficits, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment, or voice impairment.
SLP (Speech/Language Pathologist
Regular or special education classes that teach reading, writing (composition), speaking and listening.
ELA (English Language Arts)
The eligibility area identified with the following: limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment that is due to chronic or acute health problems.
OHI - Other Health Impairment
Students identified as having a special education disability have a right to have their individual education needs met as adequately as students without disabilities.
FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education)
Missouri test administered yearly to students with significant cognitive delays (less than 1% of the population) in grades 3 through 11 to measure student’s progress on Missouri Learning Standards.
MAP-A (Missouri Assessment Program-Alternate)
A related service provided to students with a special education disability in order for that student to benefit from special education. Services typically address fine motor or sensory deficits.
OT (Occupational Therapy)
An evidence-based three-tiered framework to improve and integrate all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes.
PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports)
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability, psychosocial impairment, or both that adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury
Federal law that protects the privacy of special education students’ educational records. This law also outlines parent and student rights to access educational records.
FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
Each public agency shall ensure that to the maximum extent appropriate, students with disabilities are educated with students who are nondisabled, and that special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of students from the general educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in general education classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)
Specialist who provides a related service designed to improve gross motor skills, including functional skills in the educational setting.
PT (Physical Therapist)
Any item, piece of equipment or product system that is used to maintain or improve the functional capacities of a student with a disability.
AT (Assistive Technology)
A significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
ID - Intellectual Disability
Federal law that outlines special education eligibility criteria and guides educators in how to provide special education and related services to these students.
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
The public agency (i.e., school district). A person representing the public agency (i.e., school district) is often referred as the LEA. This may be the principal or other school district representative.
LEA (Local Educational Agency
services provided to blind or visually impaired students by qualified personnel to enable those students to attain systematic orientation to and safe movement within their environments in school, home, and community.
O&M (Orientation and Mobility Services)
A plan that sets forth specific behavioral interventions for a specific student who displays chronic patterns of behavior. These plans are used for special education students, are based on an FBA, and are a part of the student’s IEP.
BIP (Behavioral Intervention Plan