Alphabet Soup
Labels
The IEP
Getting Started
Numbers
100

IDEA

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

100

A disability category that only applies until age 6

What is developmental delay?

100

What IEP stands for

What is an Individualized Education Plan or Program?

100

A school division's process of locating, identifying and evaluating children with disabilities

What is child find?

100

2

What is the age of eligibility for special education?

200

FAPE

What is free and appropriate public education?

200

Limited strength, vitality or alertness due to a chronic or acute health problem

What is other health impairment (OHI)?

200

One

What is the number of a child's regular education teachers who must be part of the IEP team

200

May be made by anyone

What is a referral?

200

504

What is section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?

300

LRE

What is Least Restrictive Environment?

300

Formerly known as MR

What is intellectual disability (ID)?

300

Standard for others who may be invited to attend an IEP meeting

What is having knowledge or special expertise regarding the child?

300

The school-based personnel charged with making referrals to special education personnel

What is a child study team?

300

75

What is the maximum number of days from filing to decision in due process?

400

BIP

What is a behavioral intervention plan?

400

A communication disorder that adversely affects educational performance

What is speech or language impairment?

400

Entity that decides which individuals will fulfil most of the categories for IEP participants

What is the school division?

400

The calendar day deadline for developing an IEP after eligibility determination

What is 30 days?

400

45

Number of calendar days after education records request within which school district must respond

500

FERPA

What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?

500

An acquired injury to the brain caused by external force, that adversely affects educational performance

What is traumatic brain injury?

500

Number of days in advance of IEP meeting when school must provide draft of IEP

What is none?

500

Deadline for convening an IEP meeting when the parent requests one

What is none?

500

10

Number of days after which a removal from placement for disciplinary reasons becomes a change in placement

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