The Process
Immediate instructional or behavioral assistance provided before a formal referral.
What is Pre-referral Intervention?
This group includes parents, teachers, and an LEA representative to develop a student's plan.
What is the IEP Team?
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
The most common placement where students with disabilities are educated with non-disabled peers.
What is the General Education classroom?
When students from a specific group are found in special education in higher numbers than expected.
What is Disproportionality?
A nondiscriminatory evaluation required to determine if a child has a disability.
What is a Multi-factored Evaluation or MFE?
Team members work independently, conducting their own assessments and sharing them later.
What is a Multidisciplinary team?
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
A setting where a student is in Gen-Ed most of the day but goes to a special room for part of it.
What is a Resource Room?
A major cause of overrepresentation involving cultural differences between teachers and students.
What is Teacher-Student Incongruity?
A written legal document for students aged 3–21 that details their special education services.
What is an IEP?
Professionals who share roles and work across discipline boundaries to provide integrated services.
What is a Transdisciplinary team?
IFSP-used for infants and toddlers instead of an IEP.
What is Individualized Family Service Plan?
The practice of educating all students in general education, regardless of disability.
What is Full Inclusion?
A negative consequence of being wrongly placed in special education.
What is Stigmatization or Denial of general ed interventions?
This law ensures all children with disabilities receive a free, appropriate public education.
What is IDEA?
A model where two teachers (General Ed and Special Ed) plan and deliver instruction together.
What is Co-teaching?
RTI—a multi-tiered approach to identifying students with learning struggles.
What is Response to Intervention?
A specialized facility where a student receives 24-hour care and education.
What is a Residential School?
These must be "nondiscriminatory" to ensure children from diverse backgrounds are fairly tested.
What are Assessments/Evaluations?
The formal process where an IEP team meets at least once a year to review progress.
What is an Annual Review?
The person on the IEP team who has the authority to commit school resources.
Who is the LEA Representative?
ESL (or ELL)—students whose native language is not English.
What is English as a Second Language?
The range of different placement and service options required by IDEA.
What is the Continuum of Alternative Placements?
Working together toward a common goal; the "engine" that makes IDEA work.
What is Collaboration?