Chapter 9
It is a school-based team, also known as the school building-level committee.
What is a child study team?
Refers to essential and critical skills needed for students to perform routine activities in daily living, including communication, academic language, mobility, behavior, and social skills.
What is functional performance?
It is the examination and interpretation of data.
What is analysis?
The observation and collection of data on a student's academic abilities using everyday curriculum content.
What is curriculum-based assessment?
The movement of a specific skill learned in one environment to a more broadly based, naturally occurring environment.
What is generalization?
A set of assessment procedures for determining the extent to which students are benefiting from classroom instruction.
What is progress monitoring?
Usually refers to a child's performance in academic areas.
What is academic achievement?
Systematically breaking down a complicated task into discrete steps that can be easily observed.
What is task analysis?
A cue that is used to encourage a response such as what do you drink? While pointing to a cup (a gestural prompt).
What is prompt?
A skill or behavior is stated in terms that can be observed so that everyone involved understands what to look for during an observation.
What is operationally defined?
A response by a school to some inappropriate student behaviors by suspending or expelling students from classroom instruction or through other types of actions, such as a referral to the principal's office or detention.
What is disciplinary action?
Many related service providers may also be represented on the IEP team depending on a child's needs. The staff members include but are not limited to SLPs, occupational therapists, physical therapists, School nurses, school counselors, mental health professionals, English as second language teachers, bilingual teachers, interpreters, and school psychologists, as well as the child's private Services providers.
What is related services personnel?
Presenting summarize data in graph or chart format so that anyone can easily determine trans patterns and discrepancies.
What is visual analysis?
Data that are typically presented as a narrative description of a behavior.
What is qualitative data?
A pre-referral strategy to determine whether a comprehensive assessment for special education is warranted.
What is screening?
What are pre-referral strategies? Many school systems recommend or require that before an individualized evaluation of a student is conducted for possible placement and special education, the teacher meets with an assistance team to discuss the nature of the problem and what possible modifications to instruction or the classroom might be made.
What are pre-referral strategies?
An advocate may be a School employee or someone from the community who is financially compensated or who serves in a volunteer capacity to advise the child's parents or Guardians.
What is a parent/family advocate?
The behavior or skill on which you are focusing. It is a specific behavior you are going to observe and measure. The target Behavior should be defined in clear terms so that all individuals involved in the observation or measurement of the behavior understand exactly what to look for.
What is target behavior?
Data that are typically presented as a number or count.
What is quantitative data?
Be in all caps PLAAFP drives the development of IEP goals and objectives documenting the students level of performance both qualitatively and quantitatively provides the necessary information for constructing meaningful and compliant goals and objectives.
What are present levels?