Vocab
Tools and changes in the learning environment that helps students with disabilities or learning differences.
Accommodations
public schools cannot turn away a student with a disability.
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A special helper from your school that gives you the tools you need to learn equally alongside your friends
504 plan
A hearing impairment so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Deafness 🦻
A impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but is not included under the definition of deafness.
Hearing Impairment
Kids with disabilities will get free public education
FAPE
Making things like elevators, wheelchairs, and ramps for people who struggle to function physically.
Accessibility.
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.
Autism 🧩
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impair articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Speech or language impairment
BONUS: a lifelong neurodevelopmental learning disorder that makes it hard to understand numbers and perform basic math calculations
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A program designed for a child's individual needs. This program sets goals for each child.
IEP
A parent or guardian actively taking part in a child's education
Parental participation
What does IDEA stand for?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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 education performance.
TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) đź§
Concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability- blindness, intellectual disability - orthopedic impairment, etc), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodate in a special education program solely for one of the impairments. The term does not include deaf-blindness.
Multiple Disabilities
Helps students get their work done in a more friendly manner especially if a student has an IEP
Modifications
The government must treat everyone fairly and follow the rules before they can punish someone or take away their rights
Due process
Significantly subaverage 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.
Intellectual disability
An impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
Visual Impairment Including Blindness
A severe skeletal impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (poliomyelitis, bone, tuberculosis) and impairments from other causes (cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures)
Orthopedic Impairment
A way of teaching that gives every student different ways to learn and show what they know
Universal Design for Learning
Grown-ups test and learn about you in a way that is completely fair and fits who you are.
Non-discriminatory Evaluation
Hearing and visual impairments that cause 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 or children with blindness.
Deaf-blindness
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 do mathematical calculations
A specific learning disability
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:
An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
Emotional Disturbance