IDEA 2004 Eligibilities
...a disorder in one or more of the basic learning processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest in significant difficulties affecting the ability to listen, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematics.
What is a Specific Learning Disability (SLD)?
...includes the breadth and depth of a person's acquired knowledge, the ability to communicate one's knowledge, and the ability to reason using previously learned experiences or procedures.
What is Gc (Crystallized Intelligence)?
This test has 18 subtests of two types: core and supplementary. One interpretation model consists of four scales: Sequential Processing Scale, Simultaneous processing Scale, Learning Ability and Planning Ability.
What is the KABC-II
Following an FBA, this plan is often created...
What is a PBIP? Positive Behavior Intervention Plan
...means significantly sub-average general cognitive functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Intellectual Disability (InD)?
includes the broad ability to reason, form concepts, and solve problems using unfamiliar information or novel procedures. Also known as "fluid intelligence"
What is Gf?
First developed in 1977. There are 7 tests in the standard battery, and an additional 14 in the extended battery, allowing for a considerably detailed analysis of cognitive abilities. The Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory factors that this test examines are: Comprehension-Knowledge, Long-Term Retrieval, Visual-Spatial Thinking, Auditory Processing, Fluid Reasoning, Processing Speed, Short-Term Memory and Quantitative Knowledge and Reading-Writing Ability. A General Intellectual Ability (GIA) or Brief Intellectual Ability (BIA) may be obtained.
What is the Woodcock Johnson.
Must include child's parents, regular education teacher, at least one special education teacher, representative of the school district, interpreter of instructional implications, possibly an expert, and if appropriate, the child.
Who are the members of an IEP meeting?
A school psychologist might send a parent or teacher this in order to gather more information about the child
What is a rating scale?
…means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
...is the ability to store information and fluently retrieve it later in the process of thinking.
What is Glr?
This acronym describes the components of our process for gathering more information during problem analysis
What is RIOT (Review, Interview, Observation, and Test)?
Relative to reading, what does LLI stand for?
What is Leveled Literacy Intervention? by Fountas & Pinnell
…means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that— (a) is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, ADHD, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome.
What is Other Health Impairment (OHI)?
...is the ability to apprehend and hold information in immediate awareness and then use it within a few seconds.
What is Gsm?
These begin the IEP process and involve two components.
What is the referral and/or consent?
The school psychologist will use this to determine if an intervention is successful or needs to be altered
What is progress monitoring data?
A condition characterized by (a) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by physical, sensory, sociocultural, developmental, medical, or health factors (b) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers (c) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances. (d) Internalizing factors(depression, fears, phobias, or excessive worrying and anxiety regarding personal or school problems (e) Externalizing behaviors that are chronic and disruptive such as noncompliance, verbal or physical aggression, or poorly developed social skills.
What is Emotional or Behavioral Disturbance (EBD)?
Who contributed to the development of the CHC theory?
Who are Cattel-Horn-Carroll?
Some subtests on this test include Verbal Reasoning (verbal), Guess What (verbal), Odd-Item Out (nonverbal), and What's Missing? (nonverbal).
Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS)
The process we use in identifying problem behaviors and developing interventions to improve or eliminate those behaviors
What is a functional behavioral assessment (FBA)?
Who are the 4 Core members of a BTA team?
Who are School Administration, Law Enforcement, Mental Health Professional and Teacher/Instructional staff?