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Behavior
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fidgeting, unable to remain seated, moving excessively (restless), blurting out, difficulty awaiting turn, interrupting, easily distracted, unorganized, careless, & not finishing assignments or rushing through assignments are just a few of the characteristics you may observe
What is a student with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
100
detailed education plan legally mandated for each person being served by the individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
What is and Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
100
A stimulus is presented followed by a response increasing the frequency of that response
What is positive reinforcement
100
The idea that all children with disabilities can best be educated, and should be included, in the regular classroom
What is Inclusion
200
Typically do not "look" different from their non-disabled peers; often have only mild or moderate developmental delays, except in academics, which is often the major area of deficit
What is mild mental retardation
200
Current federal law ensuring the rights of handicapped person from birth to 21 years of age to appropriate public education.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
200
Having significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with significant limitations in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects the child's educational performance
What is Mental Retardation or Intellectual Disabilities
200
passivity and a sense of lack of control over one's environment that is learned through experiences in which one's behavior was ineffective in controlling events.
What is Learned Helplessness
200
A change to some aspect of the classroom environment or to the assignment that helps it become more accessible to the student but does not change the content being taught
What is an accommodation
300
Usually means the student may have deficits in one or more of the following: receptive language which includes listening and reading; deficits in the processing of language which includes thinking, understanding, comprehending, and integrating concepts; deficits in writing, speaking or spelling which is expressive language or a deficit in mathematical computations
What is SLD or Specific Learning Disability
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A 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.
What is an Emotional Disturbance
300
A weakening of a learned response, produced when reinforcement that followed the response no longer occurs
What is extinction
400
More likely to have a recognizable syndrome (such as Down Syndrome); therefore, may "look" different than their non-disabled peers; their development is often significantly delayed; they are typically identified as infants or toddlers.
What is moderate to severe mental retardation
400
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 to do mathematical calculations.
What is a Specific Learning Disability
400
Behavioral analysis that is the assessment of variables that might be influencing the occurrence and maintenance of a behavior
What is a functional behavior assessment (FBA)
400
Regarding education, refers to the idea that individuals with disabilities have the right to be educated with their typically developing peers to the greatest extent possible/feasible
What is Least Restrictive Environment
500
Age-inappropriate articulation errors, exhibits dysfluencies (repetitions, prolongations, interruptions) in the flow or rhythm of speech, unable to follow oral directions, is unable to match letters with sounds, has an inadequate vocabulary, demonstrates poor concept formation, has difficulty conveying messages or conversing with others, has difficulty expressing personal needs
What is speech or language delay
500
A communication disorder in the area of articulation, voice, fluency, or language that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is a Speech or Language Impairment
500
An approach to the treatment of behavior disorder that is based primarily on learning principles
What is Behavior Modification/Behavior Therapy
500
Changes made to the curriculum/content being taught to meet the needs of the individual learner addressed in the IEP.
What is a modification