It's the Law
This law protects students with disabilities.
What is IDEA (individuals with disabilities education act)?
A student with this exceptionality has an impairment in one or more of the following areas: articulation, fluency, and/or voice.
What is speech impairment?
The specialist who may work with students on expressive and/or receptive language skills due to a speech or language impairment.
Who is the speech language pathologist?
Who are the parents at any time or the school personnel after the RtI process?
You have a student in your classroom for two weeks and notice the student is very active and inattentive. Should you contact the parents and tell them their child should be tested for special education? What should you do?
NO. You should use strategies to help the student in your classroom. If he/she is struggling with academics, start a Tier 1 calendar and consult your administrator.
The number of days the school has to get paperwork prepared and to the parent once they ask for special education testing.
What is 10 school days?
A student is medically diagnosed as having down's syndrome. The student may qualify for this special education exceptionality.
What is cognitive disability?
The person who is in charge of creating the IEP, working with the classroom teacher, and making sure the special education student has what is needed
Who is the Teacher of Record?
Describe Tier 1.
What is whole group instruction?
-keeping a calendar of the specific lesson, which includes pretest, progress monitoring, and posttest data
Explain medical diagnosis vs school eligibility and who is responsible for paying for each.
medical-doctor may offer tests to determine diagnosis at parents' expense
school-school psychologist completes tests to determine if a child qualifies at corporation's expense
The document that is developed to guide instruction and services for school aged children. This document is created with a team of individuals.
What is the IEP (individual education program)?
A student with this exceptionality has differences in his brain that effects his ability to communicate, understand language, play, and relate to others.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The youngest age when a child is able to receive special education support from the public school.
What is 3 years old?
Describe Tier 2.
What is small group instruction on the same skill as Tier 1?
-keeping a calendar of the specific lesson, which includes pretest, progress monitoring, and posttest data
This will happen if all three tiers of the RtI process do not help improve student learning and adequate progress is not made.
What is referring the student for special education testing?
This law provides that no otherwise qualified individual with disability shall, solely by reason of the disability, be discriminated against in certain realms of American life.
What is Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Students with this exceptionality could have: asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, or Tourette Syndrome. Their health problems adversely affect their educational performance.
What is Other Health Impairment?
This is the document used for all English Learners that are not proficient in their WIDA score. This document allows staff to know what the students needs to be successful.
What is an ILP (individual learning plan)?
Describe Tier 3.
What is individual instruction on the same skill as Tier 1 and Tier 2?
-keeping a calendar of the specific lesson, which includes pretest, progress monitoring, and posttest data
The term used synonymously with RtI process. It has a different name, but the same meaning.
What is MTSS: Multi Tiered System of Support?
The number of days the school psychologist has to complete the special education testing once parents/guardians sign for testing.
What is 50 school days?
What is Specific Learning Disability?
Autism, Blind Low Vision, Deaf Hard of Hearing, Emotional Disability, Cognitive Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic Impairment, Other Health Impairment, Specific Learning Disability, Communication Disorder (speech or language impairment), Traumatic Brain Injury, Developmental Delay, and Visual Impairment
What are the 13 categories of special education as defined by IDEA and article 7?
Name three people who will attend a meeting to discuss the RtI progress after Tiers 1, 2, and 3.
Who are: principal/assistant principal, guidance counselor, classroom teacher, and intervention teacher?
When a student does not qualify for an Individualized Education Program, but shows a need for additional support in the classroom, the school and meet with parents to implement this.
What is a 504 plan?