The Name's the Same
Acronyms A-Plenty
Test Your Assessment Skills
Behavior 101
Case by Case
100

A part of the IEP, or something scored in a hockey game

What is a goal?

100

LRE

What is Least Restrictive Environment?

100

Once an assessment plan is signed, the team has this many days to conduct the assessment and hold a meeting

What is 60?

100

If a student's behavior impedes learning, the team may want to conduct one of these assessments to determine the reason for the behavior

What is an FBA?

100

These factors, named after a plaintiff in a 1994 case, outline four things to be considered when looking at a more restrictive setting.

What are the Rachel H (Holland) factors?

200

A service on an IEP, or a spoken presentation given to a live audience

What is (a) speech?

200

FBA

What is Functional Behavioral Assessment?
200

In order to be legally compliant, a team must assess in all areas of ________ __________

What is suspected disability?

200
Districts may hire one of these, also known by their acronym RBT, to help support students with behavioral struggles.

What is a Registered Behavior Technician?

200
In 1995's Poolaw v Bishop, parents wanted their son, who was profoundly deaf, to be educated alongside his non-disabled peers, a practice commonly called this.

What is mainstreaming?

300

Information such as frequency and duration of a behavior, or a character on Star Trek

What is Data?

300

MMSN

What is Mild Moderate Support Needs?

300

This required component of an assessment report contains a parent's thoughts and concerns.

What is Parent Interview (or Parent Input)?

300

A district has this many days to hold a manifestation determination meeting after a decision is made to expel

What is 10 school days?

300

The Rowley Standard is a legal benchmark from 1982 that said an IEP must be "reasonably calculated to enable the child to receive some _______ ______."

What is educational benefit?
400

The stopping point in testing, or the overhead interior structure of a room

What is the ceiling?

400

ELPAC

What is English Learner Proficiency Assessments for California?

400

Assessors will want to conduct more than one of these in order to watch how a student performs in different environments.

What is observation?

400

First/then boards, choice boards, and daily schedules are examples of these, which help students on the autism spectrum understand expectations and communicate needs

What are visual supports?
400

This 2017 case stated that public schools must provide an IEP that is reasonably calculated to enable a child with a disability to make progress appropriate in light of their circumstances. 

What is Endrew F? (Endrew F v Douglas County School District)

500
The proficiency at which a student performs now, or the connector between home plate and first

What is a baseline?

500

AcCEL

What is Academic Collaborative for Exceptional Learners?

500

A 2022 case, referred to as this name of a beach in California, found that a less restrictive setting may be appropriate if the student is making meaningful progress on IEP goals.

What is Redondo Beach? (D.R. v Redondo Beach Unified SD)

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