Special Education Lingo
MUSER
What is Maine Unified Special Education Regulations?
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 or Language Impairment?
Allows CDS to evaluate a child.
What is a Parental Consent for Evaluation?
Homeless students are protected by
What is the federal McKinney-Vento Act?
Rule allowing children to remain with CDS for an extra year based on birthday and initial IEP Date.
What is LD 676?
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
An 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 in this section.
What is a Hearing Impairment?
Allows CDS to share information with others
What is an Authorization to request and/or share information and records?
A child in custody of DHHS
What is a State Ward?
Timeline from Initial Consent to Initial Eligibility
What is 60 Days?
ADA
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Autism?
Allow CDS to bill a certain entity for Services
What is a Parental Consent to Share Data and Seek Payment for IEP Services?
FERPA
What is the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act?
interventions that include teaching practices that have been tested in experimentally sound research studies and have been shown to significantly improve the academic or behavioral achievement of the children who present characteristics similar to the child involved in the general education intervention process.
What is Evidence Based Practice or Scientifically Based Interventions?
IEP
What is an Indivualized Education Program?
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.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Show the need for supports in the classroom
What is a Form for the determination of Adverse Effect on Educational Performance?
How the child demonstrates his/her skills and behaviors in cognition, communication, motor, adaptive, social/emotional and sensory areas.
What is Present Level of Performance or Functional Performance?
A brief procedure, done periodically, designed to identify children who should receive more intensive diagnosis or evaluation. It is a systematic process conducted by individuals appropriately trained
What is a screening?
OSEP
What is the Office of Special Education Programs?
This criteria means 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—
Is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome
What is Other Health Impairment?
A signed written notice by the parent or guardian after initial eligibily meeting
What is the Consent for the Initial Provision of Special Education and when appropriate Related Services?
Changes in the regular education curriculum and or assessment that lower the standards of the curriculum.
What are modifications?
A public or private program which is established specifically to serve children with disabilities and/or developmental delays.
What is a Special Purpose Program?