Acronyms 1
This related service professional helps students gain independence in school and the community by teaching functional and other living skills.
Ex. Grasping a pencil, fastening clothing
Who is an Occupational Therapist?
This document summarizes all the information gathered concerning the student, sets the expectations of what the student will learn, and prescribes the types and amounts of services for the student.
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Plan)?
Parents and family members cannot be asked to pay for special education services. Each child is guaranteed an education that must incorporate special education through specially designed instruction, related services, and supplementary aids and services.
What is a free and appropriate education (FAPE)?
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is ID (Intellectual Disability)?
This related service professional works to help improve students' articulation, language, and communication skills. They work in the schools as part of the IEP team.
Who is a Speech Therapist (ST) or Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)?
A severe impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance. Includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly (clubfoot), impairments caused by disease (bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (cerebral palsy, amputations).
What is an Orthopedic Impairment (OI)?
Impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educational performance but that is not included under the definition of deafness.
What is a Hearing Impairment (HI)?
Most commonly used term to describe any level of decreased vision to see from mild loss that has little impact on daily life to total loss.
What is a Vision Impairment (VI)?
It's a condition where they have an inability to build or maintain interpersonal relationships with peers or teachers, exhibit inappropriate types of behavior, express pervasive moods of unhappiness, and have a tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears.
What is an Emotional Disturbance (ED) or Emotional Behavior Disorder (EBD)?
One of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. Children have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors, or be overly active.
What is Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder (ADHD)?
A condition in a child that results from alcohol exposure during the mother's pregnancy. This condition causes brain damage and growth problems.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)?
A communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is a Speech Language Impairment (SLI or SL)?
The combination of more than one disability (Intellectual impairment-blindness, intellectual impairment-orthopedic impairment) that causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments. The term does not include deaf-blindness.
What is Multiple Disabilities (MD)?
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
What is a Specific Learning Disability (SLD)?
English is taught directly to individuals who speak another language. ESL programs do not use the student's native language to teach curriculum but instead provide direct instruction on the English Language usually outside the general education classroom or sometimes in a co-taught environment.
What is English as a Second Language (ESL)?
A strategy or instructional method that promotes the teaching and use of academic and functional skills in the student's natural environment. Experience in applying skills learned in the classroom within the larger context of the community in which the students live.
What is Community Based Instruction (CBI)?
Communication devices, systems, strategies, and tools that replace or support natural speech. These tools support a person who has difficulties communicating using speech.
What is Augmentative Alternative Communication (ACC)?
Students who are unable to communicate fluently or learn effectively in English, who often come from non-English-speaking homes and backgrounds, and who typically require specialized or modified instruction in both the English language and in their academic courses
What are English Learners (EL) or English Language Learners (ELL)?
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A way of thinking about teaching and learning that helps give all students an equal opportunity to succeed. this approach offers flexibility in the ways students access material, engage with it, and show what they know. The goal is to use a variety of teaching methods to remove any barriers to learning and give students equal opportunities to succeed.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
A set of strategies or procedures designed for behavior so that students understand expectations. These strategies involve establishing settings, structures, and systems to facilitate positive behavior change.
What are Positive Behavior Supports (PBS)?
A framework used in many schools that focuses on schoolwide improvement and the importance of ensuring that classroom, school, and district efforts to improve outcomes for all students are carefully articulated and aligned. It is to provide targeted support to struggling students.
What is Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)?
A multidimensional and research-based problem-solving strategy for analyzing the student's behavior within the context of the setting in which it is occurring. The purpose is to decide the function of the behavior and to determine how to address it.
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)?
Classroom assessment designed to supplement information obtained from formal assessments by sampling a student's understanding of the classroom curriculum. It is based on how well the students are mastering the curriculum.
What is a Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM)?
A multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students wit learning and behavior needs. The process begins with high-quality instruction and universal screening of all children in the general education classroom. Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their rate of learning.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child's educational performance. Applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgement; problem solving; sensory; motor abilities; and speech.
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?