Acronyms & Lingo
This three-letter term refers to the process of using data to inform decisions about tiered support for students.
What is RTI (Response to Intervention)?
On a standardized test, this score indicates how a student's performance compares to their peers in a norm group.
What is a percentile rank?
A type of group therapy that helps students learn how to interact with others and navigate social situations.
What is a social skills group?
This is the part of the IEP where you describe the student's current academic, developmental, and functional strengths and needs.
What are Present Levels of Performance (PLPs)?
This Russian psychologist is known for his theory of proximal development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This three-letter acronym refers to the educational plan for students with disabilities under IDEA.
What is an IEP?
A score of 85 on a cognitive test falls within this range of intellectual functioning.
What is low average?
The therapeutic approach that focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A change in the classroom environment or testing procedure that helps a student access the curriculum.
What is an accommodation?
The psychologist who developed a stage theory of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The acronym for the law that ensures students with disabilities are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education.
What is IDEA?
This statistical measure tells us the average distance of scores from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
A type of therapy that addresses fine motor skills, sensory processing, and daily living activities.
What is Occupational Therapy (OT)?
The section of the IEP that requires the school to consider if a student's disability is the cause of a disciplinary violation.
What is a Manifestation Determination Review?
This psychologist is famous for his theory of operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
A three-letter acronym for a plan designed to address challenging behaviors by changing their antecedents and consequences.
What is a BIP (Behavioral Intervention Plan)?
A type of test that compares a student's performance to a specific set of criteria or standards, rather than to other students.
What is a criterion-referenced test?
This technique involves teaching students to calm their minds and focus on the present moment.
What is mindfulness?
The legal term that requires districts to educate students with disabilities alongside their nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
A humanistic psychologist known for the concept of unconditional positive regard.
Who is Carl Rogers?
This term describes a student's ability to identify their own learning needs and advocate for themselves.
What is self-advocacy?
This is the most common and often misused phrase that refers to the probability that a score range contains a student's "true" score.
What is a confidence interval?
This intervention, often used with younger children, uses toys, games, and puppets to help a child process their emotions and experiences.
What is play therapy?
The federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs that receive federal funds, often resulting in a specific plan for students.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
This psychologist is known for the social learning theory and the famous Bobo doll experiment.
Who is Albert Bandura?