Acronyms
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
"A neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs a child’s ability to communicate and interact with others. It also includes restricted repetitive behaviors, interests and activities. These issues cause significant impairment in social, occupational and other areas of functioning."
"Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that—
What is other health impairment or OHI?
Full name for IEP.
What is individualized education program?
This person was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree as well as helped found the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920.
Who is Helen Keller?
RTI
"A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance."
What is speech and language disability?
"A brain disorder that causes recurring, unprovoked seizures."
What is epilepsy?
An IEP is a type of __________ document.
What is legal?
This law, passed in 1990, prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA?
FAPE
What is free appropriate public education?
"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. The term applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech."
What is traumatic brain injury?
"A neurodevelopmental disorder defined by impairing levels of inattention, disorganization, and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity. Inattention and disorganization entail inability to stay on task, seeming not to listen, and losing materials necessary for tasks, at levels that are inconsistent with age or developmental level. Hyperactivity-impulsivity entails overactivity, fidgeting, inability to stay seated, intruding into other people's activities, and inability to wait— symptoms that are excessive for age or developmental level."
What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD?
The interval an IEP is reviewed and, if needed, modified or revised.
What is annual?
Author, animal welfare activist, and autism advocate, this person invented the "hug machine" initially to soothe and regulate cattle.
Who is Temple Grandin?
OPT
What is office of pupil transportation?
"
condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance:
(a) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors; (b) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers; (c) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances; (d) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression; (e) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
The term includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance."
What is emotional & behavioral disability?
"Difficulty swallowing — taking more time and effort to move food or liquid from your mouth to your stomach."
What is dysphagia?
A student with an IEP is re-evaluated once every _____ year(s).
What is three?
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, was reauthorized in this this year.
What is 2004?
IEP
Individualized Education Program
"Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently [at the same time] with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance."
What is intellectual disability?
When a person’s body produces too little insulin (or no insulin). It can develop at any age, but most typically appears during childhood or adolescence.
What is type 1 diabetes?
In NY, every student with a disability who has an IEP must receive this by the time they are 15 years old. These services help students with disabilities prepare for life after high school and should describe what they want to do after high school and what the school must do to help them prepare for
adulthood.
What is transition plan?
This law, passed in 1975 by President Gerald Ford, guaranteed a free, appropriate public education to each child with a disability in every state and locality across the country.
What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act?