Foundations
Delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, research-based instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is special education
A multidisciplinary, interagency, strength-based and student and family focused process for collaboratively designing and delivering services to address the needs of students and families.
What is wraparound process?
A tool that can be used to collect data on social relationships students prefer and their friendships.
What are sociometric techniques?
The first level of interventions applied to all students to promote positive behavior.
What is primary prevention?
Teaching a diverse group of students individualized skills from different curricular areas.
What is curriculum overlapping?
Partial or full-time programs that educated selected students with disabilities with their general education peers.
What is mainstreaming?
One teaching/one helping, parallel teaching, station teaching, alternative teaching, and team teaching are all different models.
What is co-teaching?
A way to show respect for students by referring to them by their names and focusing on the person rather than their differences.
What is individuals-first language?
A person-centered, multi-method, problem solving process that involves gathering information to measure behaviors; determine when behaviors are used; identify antecedent events; and interventions.
What is functional behavioral assessment?
This strategy involves having students write down what they know about the subject, what they want to learn from reading about the subject, and what they learned.
What is KWL strategy?
Educating students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment?
Students and families are ensured this right in FERPA and IDEA and is essential to establishing a trusting and collaborative relationship.
What is confidentiality?
Mr. Smith has students wear blindfolds during part of the school day and asks them to accomplish certain tasks with the help of a classmate.
What is a disability simulation?
Used to determine the delay between receiving instructions and beginning a task.
What is latency recording?
Students share responsibility for reading the text and making sure that all group members comprehend it.
What is a collaborative reading group?
A multi-tiered process whereby only students who do not respond to a series of more intensive research-based interventions would be identified as having a learning disability.
What is Response-to-Intervention.
This is a way to communicate with families and students by sending a notebook to and from school with students.
What are two-way notebooks?
Activities designed to teach students to be sensitive to the needs of others, think critically, interact with others, and develop a positive self-identity based on one's own strengths rather than on the weaknesses of others.
What is antibias curriculum?
Prearranged signs or signals to prompt students to engage in positive behaviors.
What are cues?
Students working collaboratively to create and examine solutions to real-life and community based situations and problems.
What is problem based learning?
Act under which many students may receive special education services based on a broader functional definition of disability than IDEA.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
This team is made up of students, educators, administrators, support personnel, bilingual educators, paraeducators, family, peers, community and family based organizations.
What is the comprehensive planning team?
A system that involves students publicly praising their classmates for engaging in prosocial behaviors.
What is positive peer reporting?
A written agreement that outlines the behaviors and results of a specific behavior management system.
What is a contract?
Teaching students to analyze the events and actions that lead to their success and failure.
What is attribution training?