Disability & Identity
This concept recognizes disability as a natural part of the variety of human experiences.
What is human diversity?
These three words make up the acronym IEP.
What is Individualized Education Program?
This feeling develops when students know they are accepted, valued, and connected to their classroom community.
What is belonging?
Allowing a student to take a three-minute movement break is an example of this type of support.
What is an accommodation?
This disability can affect a person's attention and may affect functioning in school.
What is ADHD?
When you are unsure how someone wants you to refer to their disability, this is what you should do.
What is ask the person?
This type of instruction is specially designed to meet the educational needs of students with disabilities.
What is special education?
This principle means giving students the supports they need to have fair opportunities to succeed.
What is equity?
These observations describe what a student actually does or says without judgment or personal bias.
What are objective, anecdotal observations?
Physical, sensory, and developmental are three examples of these.
What are types of disability?
This approach asks educators to focus on access and participation rather than trying to “fix” the student
What is inclusive education?
This student may receive an IEP when a disability creates a need for special education services.
Who is a student with a disability who needs special education services?
In this educational approach, students with and without disabilities learn together and participate meaningfully.
What is inclusive education?
A student dislikes reading. Choosing a book about the student's favorite interest is one way to encourage this.
What is participation in a reading activity?
This U.S. law prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
This type of language puts the individual before the disability, such as “student with a disability.”
What is person-first language?
This schoolwide framework provides different levels of support to meet students' academic and behavioral needs.
What is Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)?
This teaching practice adapts instruction, materials, grouping, or assessments to address different student needs.
What is differentiation?
This approach focuses on students' abilities, talents, and successes instead of focusing only on their difficulties.
What is a strength-based approach?
This model views disability primarily as an abnormality of the body or mind that should be identified, treated, or ideally cured.
What is the medical model of disability?
This term describes attitudes, assumptions, practices, or systems that devalue or exclude people with disabilities.
What is ableism?
These are five key elements an IEP can describe: learning needs, goals, accommodations, services, and supports.
What are components of an IEP?
A student using crutches struggles to move between desks. Clearing pathways and rearranging desks is an example of this.
What is removing a physical barrier or improving accessibility?
When investigating challenging classroom behavior, teachers examine what happened before the behavior, the behavior itself, and this third element.
What are the consequences?
Dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia are three examples of these.
What are specific learning disabilities?