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Special Education Law
Inclusion
Special Education Categories
Modifications
Common Terminology
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
What is IDEA? IDEA adopted a language of "child first" and provided a set of guidelines regarding the legal rights of children with disabilities, and their families to support and services.
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Infants and toddlers with disabilities receive their services
What is in the natural environment?
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Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness
What is Deaf-Blindness?
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Physical, gestural, and verbal means to cue a child.
What are prompts?
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Eating non-food items.
What is Pica?
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The year that all American children were granted the right to a free and appropriate education?
What is 1975?
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The right of all children to participate actively in their natural environments.
What is Inclusion?
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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 an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
What is a Specific Learning Disability?
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Breaking a task down into smaller steps to teach the child in a logical sequence.
What is Task Analysis?
200
The cause of a disease or abnormal condition.
What is Etiology?
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Early Childhood Intervention Programs (ECI)
What are programs that provide services for children ages birth to three with disabilities?
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Classrooms in which both children with and without disabilities are educated and support services are provided to meet all the children's needs.
What are Inclusive classrooms?
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A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance
What is Autism?
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A cognitive teaching strategy that involves creating a story specific to the learner to teach desired behaviors.
What is Social Story?
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Having an over-sensitive tactile processing system.
What is Tactile defensiveness?
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A system consisting of organized efforts in each state to locate and identify children who might have developmental delays or might be at risk for developmental problems.
What is Child Find?
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A researched based process that aims at improving academic performance. It consists of different tiers of intervention and progress monitoring as the basis of assessment and intervention for children who have learning problems.
What is known as Response to Intervention (RTI)?
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A significant 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 an Intellectual Disability?
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A system of communication used for children with disabilities based on an exchange of pictures between the children and others.
What is Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)?
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Any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of children with disabilities.
What is Assistive technology?
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This act prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in employment, public services, public accommodations, and telecommunications.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
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The type of environment that children with disabilities must be placed in when they attend public school.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
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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 a Traumatic Brain Injury?
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A comprehensive plan that would provide a child with sensory input needed for self-regulation and sensory processing.
What is Sensory Diet?
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The type of skills necessary to control one's self and environment, such as hygiene, self-care, feeding, dressing, play and simple daily problem solving.
What are Adaptive Skills?