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This is a federal program aimed at providing comprehensive preschool education programs for children ages three to five from low-income families.
What is Head Start
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A substantially limiting physical or mental impairment that affects such basic life activities as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, learning, working, or caring for oneself.
What is a Disability
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This refers to problems in communication that affect a child’s ability to talk, understand, read, and write. Disorders may range from a few speech sound errors to a total loss of ability to understand and use language.
What is a speech/language impairment
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This a change that gives a child with a disability an alternate method of demonstrating knowledge. This does not mean that assessment is easier or more difficult.
What is an Accommodation
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This is the report submitted by the Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Public Welfare to the U.S. Department of Education that provides compliance data and the results of special education for children with disabilities.
What is The Annual Performance Report (APR)
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This is the state agency that holds the ultimate responsibility for the state supervision of all schools and educational programs in the commonwealth.
What is Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE)
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This is a neurologically-based, often familial, disorder interferes with the acquisition and processing of language. Varying in degrees of severity, it is manifested by difficulties in receptive and expressive language, including phonological processing in reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, and sometimes in arithmetic. Actress & comedian Whoopi Goldberg has it.
What is Dyslexia.
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This refers to specialized services and supports designed to help families with children birth to age five who have developmental delays.
What is Early Intervention (EI)
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This is a score derived from a standardized intelligence test that estimates a child’s capacity to learn. Howard Gardner would argue that it doesn't measure all there needs to know...
What is An Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
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This refers to the loss of critical skills within an extended break in the school year (e.g., summer vacation). School may not be out for summer...
What is Regression
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A neurological disorder in which individuals display developmentally-inappropriate behavior including poor attention skills and impulsivity. It is not simply a child with high levels of energy.
What is Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
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A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or perform mathematical calculations.
What is a Learning Disability (LD)
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A federal mandate that all children with disabilities must receive appropriate educational programs, tailored to their unique needs, from which they receive educational benefit at no cost to families (although it is clear that taxpayers support the mandate).
What is Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
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Is an IDEA requirement indicating that children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, must be educated with children who are not disabled, to the maximum extent possible. The concept can be challenging to implement in practice.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
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This is specialized instruction tailored to fit the unique learning strengths and needs of students with disabilities.
What is Special Education
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This is a disorder of movement and posture control resulting from injury or lack of development in the brain during fetal life, the newborn period, or early childhood.
What is Cerebral Palsy (CP)
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A term enshrined in the Bill of Rights, this is a process for resolving a dispute between a family and an early intervention program or a local educational agency related to the identification, evaluation, placement, or program of a child with disabilities.
What is due process
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This document is a written statement of a child’s current level of educational performance and of the child’s individualized plan of instruction. It is very useful for educators and parents.
What is An Individualized Education Program (IEP)
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While not ideal if needed, this is a process in which parents and school personnel try to settle disagreements with the assistance of a specially-trained impartial mediator provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
What is Mediation
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Refers to children whose primary language is not English. A reality in our 21st Century multicultural society.
What is Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
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This term is used to describe the inability to process some or all information through the auditory channel.
What is Deafness
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This overrepresentation of a particular population exists when a particular group receives special education at a rate significantly higher or lower than would be expected based on the proportion of the general student population that group represents.
What is disproportionate representation
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This method of delivering instruction works very nicely with providing Response to Intervention (RTI)
What is differentiated instruction
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This is an approach to creating instructional materials and activities that are accessible to all, rather than simply adapting existing curricula and materials to provide access for persons with disabilities. Adopting it can make inclusive education more possible.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
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This population of students have intellectual abilities significantly above average. Instruction must be tailored for them as well.
What is Gifted and Talented students
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