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Who's Who in Early Childhood Education
Public Laws and Landmark cases
Programs and statistics
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Vocabulary
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A german scholar who coined the term, "kindergarten", a garden for children, established the first formal early education program in 1837.
Who is Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel?
100
In 1968, the _________was passed and established guidelines for early childhood special education.
What is the Handicapped Children's Early Education Assistance Act?
100
Lyndon Johnson pledged to allocate funding for compensatory programs starting in early childhood, believing that these purposeful efforts would provide the intellectual growth and development needed .The outcome was __________ .
What is Head Start?
100
A written education plan for children with disabilities, aged three to 21, designed by a multidisciplinary team of professionals and parents to determine educational services based on assessment and evaluation of a student’s individual strengths and needs; it is reviewed and updated yearly to describe a child’s present performance, current learning needs, and services that will be required.
What is an (IEP)Individualized Education Plan?
100
A service directed by each state that outlines plans and procedures for identifying children with disabilities who are unserved, specifically, children aged birth to six.
What is Child Find?
200
Documented as the earliest account of education for young children with exceptional learning needs was _________ work in the early 1900s.
Who is Maria Montessori?
200
Landmark legislation passed in 1975, for all children with exceptionalities.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
200
The program initially served 500,000 four and five year olds in 2500 communities.
What is Head Start?
200
The federal law that was most recently amended in 2004 as the Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDEIA) and is an expansion of the original Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (PL 94-142).
What is IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
200
An educational approach in which special and regular education teacher collaborate to support students with disabilities so that they may receive their education in a general educational setting with their non-disabled peers.
What is inclusion?
300
________ pledged to allocate funding for compensatory programs starting in early childhood, believing that these purposeful efforts would provide intellectual growth and development needed.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
300
Beginning with the landmark Supreme Court decision,__________ , America began focusing on the inequalities of racial segregation, poverty, and the disenfranchisement of its citizens.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
300
Head Start included programs such as ___________ , which ensured that educational success continued once children entered elementary schools and Home Start, which brought the quality learning environments into the homes of low-income families.
What is Project Follow Through
300
The legal requirement that all children, regardless of disability status, receive appropriate services, at no cost to the parents, through the public school system.
What is FAPE, Free and Appropriate Education
400
__________labeled three distinct historical periods in special education over an 80 year span
Who is Caldwell
400
The picture for children with disabilities was vastly different prior to the enactment of ______________.
What is Public Law (P.L. 94-142)
400
According to the United States Department of Education (2003), roughly ____% of children between the ages of six to 21 are receiving special education services.
What is 8.9%
400
LRE
What is Least restrictive envviornment
400
Refers to a nonspecific diagnosis to indicate that a child is not achieving developmental milestones within expected timeframes; for purposes of eligibility, this category is limited to use for children aged birth through nine, or a subset of that age range, in states who have adopted this category.
What is Developmental delay?
500
__________model offered consideration of natural environments. This concern led to the development of several new assessments, which were intentionally designed to meet the unique developmental needs, cultural, and linguistic needs of children who were at risk for developmental delay.
Who is Bronfenbrenner?
500
In 2001 the ____________ commonly known as No Child Left Behind Act, called for schools to be accountable for academic performance of all students, whether or not they had disabilities.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
500
Has rescinded 72 documents on the rights of students with disabilities, including how schools should use special education funding, in October 2017.
Who is Betsy DeVos?
500
OSERS
What is Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services