SPED Acronyms
I-E-P
What is Individualized Education Plan?
A language-based disorder manifesting in communicative receptive, expressive, or articulation deficits.
What is a Speech Impairment?
An instructional arrangement which the student receives all services and supports within the general education setting.
What is Mainstream?
The IEP Team member representing the School District.
Who is the administrator/ district designee?
The part of the IEP indicating what the student is working on.
What are Goals?
F-I-E
What is Full and Individualized Evaluation?
A disability in which there is a weakness in one or more of the basic psychological processes resulting in an imperfect ability to read, perform math calculations, or produce written text.
What is a Specific Learning Disability?
An instructional setting in which the student receives instruction in the special education setting 1-49% of their instructional day.
What is Resource?
The IEP Team Member responsible for writing PLAAFPs and goals and serving as a case manager.
Who is the Special Education Teacher?
The part of the IEP indicating supports needed to access general education curriculum.
What are the accommodations?
L-R-E
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
A disability rooted in deficits in socialization, communication, ability to generalize skill sets.
What is an Autism Spectrum Disorder?
An instructional setting in which the student in which the student receives 50-100% of their instruction in the special education setting
What is Self-Contained?
What IEP Team member with the content and curriculum knowledge.
Who is the General Education Teacher?
The parent of the IEP that describes the frequency and duration of specially designed instruction.
What is the schedule of services?
F-A-P-E
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
A disability in which intellectual functioning is assessed to be two or more standard deviations below the mean coupled with deficits in Adaptive Behavior.
What is an Intellectual Disability?
An instructional arrangement in which the student receives all instruction in their residence.
What is Homebound?
The IEP Team member representing retaining educational decision making rights for a minor.
Who is the Parent/ Guardian?
The part of the IEP that describes how a student qualifies for special education services.
What is the eligibility determination section?
M-D-R
What is Manifest Determination Review?
A disability manifesting in irrational or inappropriate behaviors and emotions under normal circumstances that has been demonstrated over a period of time.
What is an Emotional Disturbance?
An instruction arrangement in which the student receives all of their instruction at a facility the also live at.
What is Residential?
The IEP Team Member with advanced training in assessment and evaluation interpretation.
Who is the Diagnostician/ School Psychologist?
The part of the IEP that serves as an overview the meeting.
What are the deliberations?